United Nations

Adalah has submitted two reports to the United Nations Human Rights Committee detailing Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Israeli military officials publicly stated in advance of the protests that the army would employ weapons and tactics that violate international – and even Israeli – law.

Adalah urges Israel implement CEDAW-recommended measures to increase Bedouin women's employment, raises concerns with forced urbanization, evictions, displacement.

CEDAW recommends special measures to increase Bedouin women's employment, raises concerns with Israel’s forced urbanization, evictions, displacement of Bedouin.

Adalah, Addameer, Al Mezan, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, and the Public Committee against Torture in Israel submit this report to the UN Committee Against Torture regarding Israel’s...

Resolution consistent with int'l humanitarian law; Adalah demands Israel abide by Security Council's calls to "immediately and completely" cease all settlement activities, including in East J'lem.

Adalah and Al Mezan filed joint complaints in 27 cases after 2014 Gaza war involving suspicion of grave violations of int'l law; Israel has not probed even one case in accordance with int'l standards.

Adalah, Al Mezan, and PHR-I call on the international community to take action to end Israel's torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children from the OPT.

Committee raised numerous issues highlighted by human rights organizations in concluding observations as matters of grave concern.

Adalah, Al Mezan and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel submitted a joint NGO report to the Committee and attended the review session in Geneva.

Adalah & Al-Marsad: International law states the oil is property that cannot be exploited, and doing so would be a war crime under the Rome Statute.

Adalah's legal, international and media campaign to achieve accountability and justice for violations of international law by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

On 11 August 2015, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Dr. Hazi Levi, the director of Barzilai Hospital located in Ashkelon, and the Attorney General demanding that the hospital refrain from...

Adalah and Al Mezan: "With this new law, Israel sanctions torture and ill-treatment." Force-feeding resulted in the death of 3 prisoners on hunger strike in past decades.

The event brought impacted persons from Israel/Palestine and the United States, along with lawyers and human rights advocates, to urge the international community to take effective steps to address...

Israel’s investigations into its 2014 Operation Protective Edge fall far short of international standards, and Israeli courts are effectively closed to Gazans' civil tort claims.

Adalah submitted three reports with partners on Israel's ICCPR violations regarding Palestinian citizens, Arab Bedouins and Torture/CIDT.

Adalah submitted reports to the UN HRC on the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel in general, and together with NCF on the rights of Arab Bedouin citizens in the Naqab.

HRC: Lack of accountability for violations of international law reinforces a culture of impunity, leading to a recurrence of violations and seriously endangering the maintenance of international...

14 organizations call on Human Rights Council to demand end to the war on Gaza, targeting of civilians and civilian property, the blockade, racial incitement and attacks, and to open investigations...