Press Releases

On 21 July 2005, Adalah and Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights submitted a request to the Ministry of the Interior's Northern District Supervisor, Mr. Herzl Gedj, to include the western...

On 6 July 2005, the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) held a one-day session at UN headquarters in New York to review Israel's Third Periodic Report, which...

On 13 July 2005, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel, demanding the issuance of an order to direct the Ministries of Education, the Interior, Construction and Housing, and...

After seven years of legal and bureaucratic struggle, on 30 June 2005, the Northern District Appellate Committee (NDAC) decided to accept Adalah's appeal on behalf of Adel and Itaaf Sawaed and to...

On 4 June 2005, Adalah received a letter from the Attorney General (AG) stating that the Ministry of Education (MOE) had been ordered to cancel regulations which discriminate against Palestinian...

On 18 June 2005, Adalah sent a letter to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz, calling on them to reject the Gadish Committee's recommendations to...

On 22 June 2005, the Attorney General (AG) announced to Israel's Supreme Court the cancellation of a policy by which a General Security Services (GSS) representative serves as the deputy director...

On 20 June 2005, Adalah submitted a motion for an injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel, requesting that the Court freeze a governmental decision issued on 2 June 2005. The decision awards...

On 6 June 2005, in response to a petition filed by Adalah to the Supreme Court, the Attorney General acknowledged that the Ministry of Education (MOE) has discriminated against schools in seven...

On 7 June 2005, the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash") informed the Akka (Acre) Magistrate Court that it was withdrawing its request to exhume and autopsy the body of Asil...

On 19 May 2005, the Attorney General (AG) informed the Supreme Court of Israel of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor's (MITL) decision to cancel its previous instruction to close the...

On 29 May 2005, Adalah submitted a motion for contempt of court, on behalf of inhabitants of Al-Jelasi neighborhood in Kammaneh, to the Supreme Court of Israel, against the Misgav Regional Council,...

On 10 May 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the Head of the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) requesting the immediate provision of Arabic language programs for illiterate prisoners incarcerated in Israeli...

On 24 May 2005, Adalah sent an urgent letter to all members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, requesting that they do not ratify a bill to extend and amend the Nationality and Entry into Israel...

On 5 May 2005, the United Nations' Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) recommended Adalah for consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Consultative...

On 4 May 2005, the Welfare Association awarded Adalah one of three 2004 NGO Awards for Excellence in Achievement, at a ceremony organized by the Welfare Association. The ceremony was held in the...

On 9 May 2005, Adalah sent an urgent letter to all Israeli government ministers and to the Attorney General, requesting that the ministers refrain from submitting a proposed bill to extend and...

On 2 May 2005, Adalah filed an appeal to Iran Shindar, the Head of the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”), demanding the cancellation of its decision to close the...

On 28 April 2005, Adalah wrote to the Attorney General (AG), the Director of the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigations Unit (Mahash), and the Military Prosecutor General, in the name of...

Dr. Marwan Dwairy, Chair of Adalah's New Board of Directors: “In this Charter, Adalah will ask to expand the boundaries of the law to protect human rights.” On 1 April 2005, Adalah's...