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On 10 March 2008, human rights and social change organizations sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Minister of Construction and Housing Ze'ev Boim and the Attorney General...

On 2 March 2008, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Eli Yishai, the Director of the Coordinating Bureau of the Economic Organizations, Shlomo Neuman, and the...

The plan is designed to create an apartheid road and turn the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem into cantons, in violation of international and Israeli law On 2 March 2008, Adalah...

On 5 March 2008, Adalah sent letters to the Minister of Communications, the Minister of National Infrastructures, the Minister of Construction and Housing, the Minister of Transport, the Minister...

The law allows for the arrest of suspects for long periods without any judicial oversight, for deliberations to take place in their absence, and for the decision to extend their detention to be...

On 4 March 2008, Adalah, in cooperation with the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Naqab (RCUV), filed a motion to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Magistrates’ Court to...

Adalah to Defense Minister: Firing at the Civilian Population of Gaza Constitutes a War Crime

Volume 46, March 2008 www.adalah.org Land, Planning and Justice Adalah submits an objection to the Eastern Ring Road Plan for Jerusalem, arguing that it is designed to create an ‘Apartheid...

Today, 29 February 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel rejected a petition filed by Adalah in the name of Arab members of Knesset, political activists, and members of the Committee to Commemorate Dr....

On 28 January 2008, the University of Haifa and the Marine Education and Training Authority responded to a letter sent by Adalah demanding the cancellation of the military service criterion as an...

Adalah: “Prisoners are transported by the Israel Prison Service in conditions that violate their constitutional rights to freedom, dignity, minimal living conditions in prison, medical...

Human Rights Groups: "Israel is Violating the Rights of Civilians in Gaza and Depriving them of Basic Needs – in Violation of International Law." Wed., February 6, 2008: Beginning tomorrow...

Volume 45, February 2008 www.adalah.org Virtual Roundtable Should human rights organizations continue to petition the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory (1967)?...

Gisha and Adalah: “This decision sets a dangerous legal precedent that allows Israel to continue to violate the rights of Palestinians in Gaza and deprive them of basic humanitarian needs, in...

None of the police officers or commanders involved in the fatal shootings of Palestinian citizens of Israel in October 2000 will face criminal indictment, the Attorney General of Israel, Menachem...

Today, 27 January 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on an urgent motion filed by Adalah and Gisha – The Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, on behalf of ten Palestinian and...

On 24 January 2008, Adalah submitted a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court against the University of Tel Aviv, challenging age restrictions on entry to the university’s medical school...

On 23 January 2008, Ms. Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, visited Adalah’s offices for a briefing on Israel’s discriminatory laws and practices...

Adalah: We do not Expect Anything Positive to Emerge from the Decision Attorney Hassan Jabareen, the General Director of Adalah, and a legal representative of the victims' families, commented as...

Adalah: "Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into the biggest prison in the world, and the Supreme Court must decide whether it will allow the population of the Gaza Strip to exercise at least the...