Water

Adalah takes series of new legal actions to defend rights of East J’lem Palestinians in shadow of renewed outbreak; 50% of city’s new patients are Palestinians; Israel resumes demolitions of...

Israel's Water Authority automatically charges Bedouin higher rates – treating them as if they are wasting water – when they actually have most limited access to water; Adalah & partners are...

In violation of int'l treaties, Israel has cut water supply up to 70%, leaving homes with no running water and causing factory shutdowns, severe damage to agriculture, deaths of livestock.

On 24 July 2013, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of representatives of five unrecognized villages, with a combined population of over 12,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel. The...

UN Committeeon Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) – 2011 CEDAW/C/ISR/CO/5 5/4/2011 Principal subjects of concern and recommendations 44. The Committee notes the...

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...

The government is using a range of discriminatory policies to compel the people of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab to abandon their land, including by violating their fundamental...

On 20 February 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition submitted by Adalah to connect the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran (pop: 500) in the Naqab (Negev) to the...

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...

Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Via email: srwatsan@ohchr.org; msaji@ohchr.org Re: Update from Adalah on World Water Day...

Civil Appeal 2541/12 - Salib Abu al-Qi'an vs. The Government Authority for Water and Sewage