Women

Many political philosophers view polygamy as a cultural right and assert that the courts should respect and protect it. Most of the feminist literature repudiates this approach and claims that it...

The average rate of illiteracy in Israel, at 4.6%, is considered relatively low.5 In the UN’s Human Development Report 2004,6 Israel was ranked 22nd among 177 countries in which the level of...

22 July 2005, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) issued its Concluding Observations, following its review of Israel's Third Periodic Report on its...

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...

In this speech, I intend to discuss what is called planning and urbanization for minorities. I will focus on two aspects of planning, one hidden and the other visible. The hidden aspect of planning...

Adalah, in conjunction with the Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), organized a 3-day training workshop for 24 Palestinian activists from Israel to discuss and analyze religious discourse and...

The Working Group on the Status of Palestinian Women of Israel, comprised of seven Palestinian women's and human rights NGOs and individual activists, submitted an NGO Report entitled "The Status...