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At First Hearing on the Petition: Supreme Court Gives State Four Days to Respond to Specific Arguments Contained in Petition Submitted by Eights Human Rights Organizations Regarding Transportation...

On 12 January 2009, Israel’s Central Elections Committee (CEC) voted to ban the United Arab List and Arab Movement for Change (UALAMC) party from participating in the elections to the...

On 12 January 2009, Israel’s Central Elections Committee (CEC) voted to ban the National Democratic Assembly Party (NDA, Tajamu or Balad) from participating in the elections to the Knesset,...

On 12 January 2009, Adalah, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, and Al Haq (West Bank) sent an urgent letter to Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the Military Advocate General...

Adalah: In light of the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza the Court should have compelled the army to operate in accordance with international law immediately Friday, January 9, 2009: In a...

Dear High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, As local, regional and international human rights organisations concerned with respect for international humanitarian law in the...

Joint NGO statement by Badil, Adalah and Al-Haq to Emergency Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Gaza

Tomorrow, Friday 9 January 2009 at 9:30 am, the Supreme Court of Israel will hold an emergency hearing on a petition demanding that the Israeli army be banned from striking medical personnel and...

On 4 January 2009, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition challenging the constitutionality of the Criminal Procedure (Detainees Suspected of Security Offenses) Law submitted in...

On 7 January 2009, Adalah submitted its detailed response to the Central Elections Committee (CEC) to a motion filed by Michal Ben-Ari from the far-right National Union Party to disqualify the...

On 7 January 2009, Adalah submitted its detailed response to the Central Elections Committee (CEC) to three motions to disqualify the National Democratic Assembly Party (NDA, Tajamu or Balad) from...

On 4 January 2009, Adalah filed an urgent petition to the Supreme Court in its own name and on behalf of seven other human rights organizations demanding that the Israeli army be banned from...

On 1 January 2009, the Haifa District Court approved a settlement reached between Adalah and the Municipality of Carmiel, located in the north of Israel, concerning the teaching of driving in the...

Attacking Civilian Government Institutions and Buildings Violates International Humanitarian Law

Adalah to AG: Bombing Civilian Neighborhoods and Killing and Injuring Civilians in Gaza Constitute War Crimes

On 31 December 2008, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Attorney General (AG) demanding that he order the General Security Services (GSS or the "Shabak") to cease the summoning of Arab leaders of...

In the afternoon on 1 January 2009, the Israeli police released the actors Hanan Helou and Saleh Bakri from detention. They had been arrested the night before at a demonstration in Haifa where...

Volume 56, January 2009 www.adalah.org Political Participation Rights Supreme Court (SCt) cancels Central Elections Committee's decision to disqualify Arab political parties from running in Knesset...

Today, 31 December 2008, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the Attorney General and the Director of the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) demanding that the Palestinian detainees and political...

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and a coalition of 10 human rights organisations based in Israel, including Adalah, request your immediate personal intervention on behalf of six of the sick and...