Social and cultural rights

Adalah: Demanding "loyalty" to Israel is a political consideration, which has numerous implications on freedom of expression.

Minister's illegal decision affects rights of entire Palestinian society in Israel, who have a different and unique narrative, history and culture from the Jewish majority.

Hospital security guards in Afula confiscated Arab citizen's food, threw some of it on the ground, and placed the rest in a special cupboard for leavened foods.

We were delighted when the creative writer, Alaa Hlehel, received the "Beirut 39" Festival Prize as one of the best young authors in the ِArab world. This prize is deserved recognition of a worthy...

There is no doubt that the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the Israeli Interior Minister’s decision (which in turn received a green light from the Prime Minister) to ban the author Alaa...

The case of author Ala Hlehel presented an opportunity for us, lawyers and Arabs in Israel, to test a range of issues related to the status of the Arab minority in Israel and its rights under...

On 2 December 2009, Adalah held its annual briefing on legal developments and major Israeli Supreme Court cases concerning Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel for representatives of foreign...

Recently, the State of Israel has made frequent use of prohibitions in law banning social and cultural contacts between its citizens and a large part of the Arab world. Israel claims that these...

National planning in Israel, as articulated and mapped by a range of national master plans, contributes significantly to shaping the country’s character, spaces, economy and environment....

Litigation and social change may be perceived as mutually exclusive. Litigation is a courtcentered tactic which deals essentially with the resolution of limited, defined conflicts in their narrow...

As part of its ongoing campaign to advocate and promote human rights in general and Arab minority rights in Israel in particular, Adalah published a series of three ads in Ha'aretz (Hebrew Edition)...

Adalah Staff Attorney Jamil Dakwar presented written and oral statements to the CESCR Committee in Geneva. Adalah's statement emphasized Israel's violations of ESCR rights of Palestinian citizens...