International Advocacy 2004

Highlights: Adalah Report to the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (UNWGIP). Land Rights and the Indigenous Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel.

EMHRN Report, 'A Human Rights Review on the EU and Israel - Relating Commitments to Actions 2003-2004' December 2004. Adalah contributed to the report as a member of the EMHRN's Working Group on Palestine.

Letter to the Counsellor of the EC Delegation to the State of Israel, Request for EU Statement Urging Israel to Cancel the Discriminatory Citizenship Law, August 2004.

EC's Response to Adalah, 18 August 2004

EC's Press Release Regarding the Law, 3 August 2003

Adalah Briefing Paper, The Israeli Army's Exploitation of the "Absolute Military Necessity" Exception to Justify its Policy of Home Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, October 2004. The Briefing Paper was widely distributed to UN and EU bodies, IHL research centers, international human rights organizations and the international media.

Report the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, September 2004. Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal testified before the special committee in Cairo in May 2004, on the subjects of home demolitions, human shields and targeted assassinations.

Adalah, FIDH and B'Tselem's Urgent Action to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) regarding the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) - 2003 (extended for six months by the Knesset in July 2004), August 2004. FIDH Press Release, "Discriminatory Citizenship Law denounced by the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD), August 2004.

UN CERD Decisions regarding the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) - 2003 (extended for six months by the Knesset in July 2004), August 2003 and August 2004.

Adalah Report to the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (UNWGIP), Land Rights and the Indigenous Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel: Recent Cases in Law, Land and Planning, April 2004.

Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - Gaza (PCHR) and Adalah's Written Intervention to the UN Commission on Human Rights on Item 6 - Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and All Forms of Discrimination (Intervention in French), focusing on the illegality of the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) (2003), February 2004.