UN Concluding Observations
Ministry of Justice Translated UN Concluding Observations into Hebrew
In June 2012 that the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced that they translated several “Concluding Observations” issued by United Nations human rights treaty bodies into Hebrew, and has made these documents available on the Ministry’s website. The United Nations also translates some concluding observations into Arabic, one of the UN’s official languages, which are also now hosted on the Justice Ministry’s website.
Adalah and other human rights organizations in Israel have been advocating for this step for more than ten years in their various reports submitted to these human rights treaty bodies. This year, in advance of International Women’s Day in March 2012, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General requesting that he issue directives to the Israeli government to translate the concluding observations of the UN human rights treaty bodies regarding the rights of women into Hebrew and Arabic, and that he ensure that the relevant ministries adopt and implement them. Press Release
Concluding Observations on Water Access for Arab Palestinians in Israel
Concluding Observations on the the Family Unification Law
UN Committees:
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Concluding Observations (2011) (2005)
Human Rights Committee (HRC)
Concluding Observations (2010) (2003) (1998)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Concluding Observations (2010) (2002)
Committee Against Torture (CAT)
Concluding Observations (2009) (2002) (1998)
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Concluding Observations (2012) (2007) (1998)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
