United Nations

Adalah: Recent events are reflection of Israeli Jewish ethnic superiority and racial segregation policies enshrined in Jewish Nation-State Law, which also falls within absolute prohibitions of...

This marks first time UN council addresses root causes of systematic Israeli racial discrimination against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to stop issuing visas for foreign nationals employed by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human...

Israel left Palestinian communities exposed to pandemic through substandard protection and limited access to testing, emergency medical services, and social welfare benefits – particularly in...

UN experts: Annexation would be crystallization of already unjust reality: two peoples living in same space, ruled by same state, but with profoundly unequal rights; Adalah and partners: UN and...

Government coalition deal imposing Israeli sovereignty in occupied West Bank is violation of both international and Israeli law; Adalah to attorney general: Clarify that you will act against any...

Adalah: This change in perception is historic. For the first time, Israel is defined by a UN expert committee as a regime that exercises apartheid practices against Palestinians on both sides of...

UN CESCR: Israeli law violates int'l treaty, recommends restoring Arabic's official status, & details Israeli violations of Bedouin rights; Israel obligated to defend Nation-State Law before UN...

Adalah Attorney Myssana Morany spoke at NGOs briefing to CESCR review of Israel, United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, 30 September 2019: Israel's policy in Naqab is guided by false depiction of...

Adalah and the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) submitted a report on 13 September 2019 in response to Israel’s replies to the List of Issues put forward by the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and...

Israel has failed to comply with the UN committee’s 2012 recommendations to reverse many of the state’s racially discriminatory practices.

Six UN Special Rapporteurs issued a joint letter to Israel, recently made public, raising serious concerns about Israeli government plans to forcibly displace 36,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel.

CESCR releases detailed list obliging Israel to address critical issues regarding Bedouin and Jewish Nation-State Law based on subjects highlighted in joint Adalah-NCF report.

Adalah Attorney Myssana Morany: "This law bears the distinct characteristics of apartheid as defined under international law."

UN commission: Israeli use of live ammunition is illegal; rules of engagement approved by Israeli Supreme Court violate international norms; Israeli gov't hasn't meaningfully investigated and...

Four Special Rapporteurs express 'deep concern' that Nation-State Law is 'discriminatory in nature and in practice against non-Jewish citizens and other minorities and does not apply the principle...

Security Council convenes to discuss Palestinian question; Adalah: Since Resolution 2334 approved in December 2016, Israel has issued bids for over 5,300 new settlement housing units; Israeli...

Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara: Israeli similarly prevented Palestinian refugees from returning and seized their homes and property based on Israeli domestic law.

Including today’s protest, approximately 100 Palestinians have been killed while participating in peaceful demonstrations and over 10,000 Palestinians were wounded.

Al-Haq, Adalah, Al Mezan Center send joint letter to top UN leaders with 8 demands, including a call to Israel to refrain from use of excessive lethal force on civilian protesters in Gaza.