Education

Attorney Zaher: \"Prohibiting Arab student club activities on campus constitutes a serious violation of the right of Arab students to freedom of expression, to punish them for holding a protest...

Attorney Zaher: Supreme Court must order state to also connect four other schools included in the petition.

Adalah: Dropout rate in the village among high school youth reaches more than 45%.

On 24 July 2013, Adalah filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of the parents of children from seven schools in the Naqab (Negev) in southern Israel. The schools currently receive...

On 20 June 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel, following its latest review on 3 June 2013. The Committee raised serious concerns...

On 3 June 2013, Adalah attended the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s (CRC) review of Israel in Geneva, Switzerland. The Committee is examining Israel’s State Report submitted in 2010...

Currently, Palestinian minors held in Ofer Prison do not receive any organized education, and minors in Megiddo and Sharon Prisons receive inadequate and inappropriate teaching. Adalah and Defense...

Three security prisoners filed a motion to the Supreme Court today (January 8) requesting an additional en banc hearing on the Court’s recent ruling to uphold a sweeping ban on correspondence...

(Haifa, Israel) During a hearing held on 24 December 2012, the Israel Supreme Court rejected Adalah's appeal (Prisoner Appeal 2539/12) on behalf of Rawi Sultany (27 years-old), a Palestinian Arab...

Adalah submitted a report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in October 2012 to assist the CRC in developing its “List of Issues” for Israel following the submission of its...

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(Haifa, Israel) Adalah filed a request for permission to appeal the decision of the Nazareth District Court to the Israeli Supreme Court on 26 March 2012. Earlier this month, the District Court...

Adalah submitted an NGO report to the Committee in December 2011 on Israel's lack of compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD),...

(Haifa, Israel) On 7 March 2012, the Nazareth District Court rejected Adalah's petition demanding that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) allow Mr. Rawi Sultany (25 years-old), a Palestinian Arab...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel in December 2011. This human rights body monitors State Party compliance with the...

(Nazareth, Israel) The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel in February 2011, in which it called on Israel to ensure...

Despite the Israel Prison Service's (IPS) clear legal obligation to provide books to prisoners through prison sales centers (“canteens”), they continue to fail to make Arabic books available,...

There was no doubt that the prohibition on referring to the Nakba as a day of mourning would apply to schools within the Arab education system. This attempt to prohibit referring to the Nakba as a...

Arab students comprise only 9.6% of the student body in institutions of higher education in Israel; only 6.7% of civil service employees are Arab The increased use of military service as a...

In many articles in which the issue of Arab education in Israel has been raised, it has been shown that the educational system is not fulfilling its desired role. This is said not to confront those...