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Al-Quds - Capitial of Arab Culture 2009
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Free Jamal Juma’! - Free the anti-Wall prisoners!
Jamal Juma’ was arrested by Israeli authorities on December 16. This arrest follows the imprisonment of Mohammad Othman, another Stop the Wall activist, and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh, a leading figure in the Bil’in popular committee against the Wall, as well as dozens more that are currently in prison for their action and advocacy against the Wall.
This latest arrest is yet another escalation of Israel’s attack on Palestinian human rights defenders, which continues to clamp down on the right to freedom of expression and the right to association.
21/12/2009
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The Goldstone Report at the UN General Assembly: States Must Ensure Victim’s Rights and Not Compromise the Rule of Law
Human rights NGOs - JOINT PRESS RELEASE :
Adalah – Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel * Addameer * Al Dameer Association for Human Rights * Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man * Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights * Arab Association for Human Rights - HRA * Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights * Defence for Children International-Palestine Section * Ensan Center for Human Rights and Democracy * Jerusalem Legal Aid Center * Palestinian Centre for Human Rights * Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies * Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling
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Health Discrimination
The Right to Health of the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel: A Status Report
The opening sentence of the National Health Insurance Law, enacted in Israel in 1994, states: “National health insurance in accordance with this law shall be founded on the principles of justice, equality and mutual assistance.” It is now apparent that the enactment of this law has not succeeded in narrowing gaps in health between the Arab and Jewish populations. Indeed, in some parameters the gaps have widened still further (examples include infant mortality rate, life expectancy, morbidity and mortality, chronic diseases, cancer, etc.) Moreover, the subsequent legislative development of the law has eroded the social principles on which founded, such as the need to remove economic and cultural barriers that prevent optimum access to health services.
In the current report HRA presents several principles and findings that emphasize the scale and scope of the discrimination faced by the Palestinian Arab population in Israel
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Discrimination Diary
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The Militarism in Israel "tramples" the Academy
The Arab Cultural Association - OBSREVER 1
General (Aluf) Eliezer Shkedi, former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force, is a candidate for President of the Hebrew University- the decision will be taken within the next few weeks.
Jan-Feb 2009: the Colonel Pninah Sharvit-Barokh, the head of the International Law Department in the Military Advocate General, started studying international law in Tel-Aviv university. She was the head of the International Law Department during the most recent Israeli Troops attack on Gaza. The appointment report was faced with massive public protest- many lawyers and academicians signed a petition calling for cancelling the appointment, claiming that Sharvit-Barokh has authorized and legalized committing crimes in this war, and causing serious insult to the international law. Tel Aviv University has rushed into announcing support for Sharvit-Barokh, and so did the minister of Defense- Ehud Barak, and the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert; In the government session, Olmert even said that the state will not support institutions that won't employ officers because of their military service; Sharvit-Barokh's first lesson took place yesterday (5.3.2009), and demonstrations were held in the university between supporting and objecting to her appointment. Several Likud members of the Israeli parliament arrived at the university in order to express support for Sharvit-Barokh.
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The Rise of Fascism in Israel
Lieberman's anti-Arab ideology wins over Israel's teens
The Yisrael Beiteinu youths gather for a final consultation as dozens of elderly party supporters slowly make their way into the white tent where the movement's conference is being held, behind the Plaza Hotel in Upper Nazareth.
The youths, ages 16-18, many of them good friends from school, had stood for a long time before the event began at the intersection near the hotel, waving Israeli flags and shouting "Death to the Arabs" and "No loyalty, no citizenship" at passing cars.
In the tent, they deliberate over what to shout when Lieberman enters: Calling out "The next prime minister" may sound a bit presumptuous with regard to the leader of what's likely to be the third-largest party in the next Knesset. But during a week when Yisrael Beiteinu won the highest level of support in mock high-school polls - the sky's the limit.
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Little Arafat
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Discrimination Diary Series, No.1
After Fathi’s son had been attending a child daycare center for several days, the daycare worker telephoned him and said: “We have a problem with your son… and after the other parents found out, some of them have removed their children from the center.” She continued: “One of the daycare workers opened your son’s bag and found out that he is called Arafat. She spoke about it with her relatives, who also have children in the center, and in response they removed their children from the center because there is an Arab child there.”
25/1/2008 |
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Upper(ty) Nazareth
“I am all for a democratic Upper Nazareth, but first of all a Jewish one" declares Gapso, a Tunisian immigrant vying for the town’s mayorship in the coming elections. With that he dismisses the appeal of a delegation of Arab residents to take their concerns into consideration. He is not the only contender for the post who is dismissive of Arab demands
29/8/2008 |
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Reports
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Civilians in Danger
The Location of Temporary and Permanent Military Installations Close to Arab Communities during the Second Lebanon War
This report focuses on one claim. This claim is that military installations were positioned by the Israeli army in proximity to Arab civilian locales. On the basis of the investigation undertaken by the HRA, it emerges that temporary military installations from which missiles were fired into Lebanon during the war were indeed positioned in very close proximity to the Arab locales that suffered the gravest attacks during the war. This is in addition to permanent military installations in existence prior to the war. In some cases, the military installations were established inside the Arab locales.
11/12/2007 |
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On the Margins 2006
Annual Review of Human Rights Violations of the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel 2006
The Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA) has been publishing annual reports for the last three years, documenting some of the violations of human rights of Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel and tracking the official policy of Israel and its institutions throughout the year towards the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Our third annual report hereby presented portrays a typical picture of racial discrimination, which has become entrenched in official and legal policy, and has become an extremely dangerous practice and the legal basis that establishes relations between the state and its Jewish majority towards the Palestinian Arab minority.
22/6/2007 |
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Suspected Citizens
Racial Profiling against Arab Passengers by Israeli Airports and Airlines
This report details the forms of racial profiling implemented at airports. This phenomenon is alarming both in terms of the frequency with which it is encountered and in terms of its acceptance in Jewish public opinion and by the authorities. The report aims to alert Israeli society, public bodies, and official institutions to this problem, and to appeal to the international community and to governmental and community bodies to act forcefully and clearly to condemn this unacceptable behavior as a manifestation of racial discrimination. Forms of racial discrimination are contrary to international standards of morality and have been condemned by international human rights conventions as among the most offensive and injurious violations of human dignity.
4/12/2006 |
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On the Margins 2005
Annual Review of Human Rights Violations of the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel 2005
On the Margins: Annual Review of Human Rights Violations of the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel 2005 is a compilation of the HRA's Weekly Press Reviews from the year, which take news pieces on human rights violations of the minority from the local Arabic and Hebrew press, in addition to providing historical background information. The report does not document all the violations in 2005, only what the HRA believes to be the most pressing. These violations point to a real danger that threatens the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel; this has compelled the HRA to issue calls to the State to take action and put a halt to such an affront to human rights.
27/6/2006 |
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Press Releases
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Human rights defender’s freedom of movement and right to a fair trial violated
The EMHRN strongly condemns the Israeli High Court of Justice’s (HCJ) decision on 10 March 2009 to dismiss the petition brought by Shawan Jabarin, the General Director of Al-Haq - a Ramallah based Palestinian human rights organisation- challenging the arbitrary, indefinite and unconditional travel ban imposed on him by the Israeli military authorities shortly after he was appointed as General Director of Al-Haq early 2006.
13/3/2009 |
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Human Rights NGO 'Prisoners Association' in imprisoned expression by Israeli authorities
On Friday, September 8, a large band of police and Shin Bet security forces stormed the Majd al-Krum office of the Arab human rights NGO, Prisoners Association (Ansar Al-Sajeen) at 1:30am and the home of the Chairperson of the Association, Munir Mansour. The security officials and police took from the office telephones, computers, photocopying machines, and gifts received from prisoners. In addition, Mr Mansour's home was searched and his mobile confiscated.
14/9/2006 |
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Israel's war crimes, massacres and blatant breaches of international law continue unhindered in Lebanon and Gaza
Israel's military assault on Lebanon continues to violate international humanitarian law as Israel pushes forward an agenda awash in unabated violent massacres and war crimes. US diplomacy has only complied with these war crimes through granting Israel impunity, thereby giving Israel the impression that it has permission to continue. Finally, it is plain to see that the international community has failed miserably in its duty – to ensure the protection of innocent civilians during time of war.
31/7/2006 |
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IDF storm Jericho prison in illegal raid while US and UK guards comply
On Tuesday, March 14, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stormed Jericho prison in the West Bank to capture Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmed Sa'adat and a number of other prisoners. Their massive raid on the prison was marked by helicopters, bulldozers, death threats to prisoners who did not surrender and the killing of two guards.
15/3/2006 |
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Recent Developments
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New report by PCATI - “Family Matters, Using Family Members to Pressure Detainees"
The illegal exploitation of family members, who, in most instances, are not suspects themselves, has on many occasions caused severe psychological suffering to interrogees and to their innocent relatives. In more extreme cases, this method takes the form of psychological torture of a detainee rendering him a victim of a cruel psychological manipulation via the illegal exploitation of a close relative. In one such case, detailed in the report, the pressure caused by this form of abuse led the detainee to attempt suicide on several occasions.
22/4/2008 |
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Suspended Sentence for Policeman Who Shot Arab Citizen for No Reason, Leaving Him Disabled
On 30 December 2007, Tel Aviv District Court convicted a former policeman in the Border Guard, Chaim Castro, on charges of aggravated assault. In 2003, Castro shot Salah Suleiman `Amer, a resident of Kafr Qassem, from a distance of some 50 cm, injuring him in the leg. Castro was sentenced to six months’ community service.The HRA welcomes the conviction of the policeman, which it believes constitutes an important (though still inadequate) step toward enforcing criminal law against police personnel. However, although the conviction in this case is very important, the penalty imposed on the offender effectively neutralizes the impact of the conviction.
10/1/2008 |
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New report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel
The report paints a depressing picture, detailing the worsening nature of human rights violations of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel
On 10 December 2007, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published its annual report – State of Human Rights Report – 2007. The report reviews the human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories over the year. As always, this year’s report includes an entire chapter examining the human rights situation of the Palestinian minority in Israel. The chapter relating to the Palestinian minority paints a depressing picture, detailing the worsening nature of human rights violations.
11/12/2007 |
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HRA position on recent Supreme Court decisions: The Supreme Court ranges between "security" and human rights
Between December 12 and 14, the Supreme Court headed by retired Chief Justice Aharon Barak, gave three important decisions relating to human rights, two of them related to the rights of the Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories and the third relates to the rights of the Arab citizens in Israel.
21/12/2006 |
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International News
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Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe by Richard Falk
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (and Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University)
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of daily life. A flicker of hope emerged some six months ago when an Egyptian arranged truce produced an effective ceasefire that cut Israeli casualties to zero despite the cross-border periodic firing of homemade rockets that fell harmlessly on nearby Israeli territory, and undoubtedly caused anxiety in the border town of Sderot. During the ceasefire the Hamas leadership in Gaza repeatedly offered to extend the truce, even proposing a ten-year period and claimed a receptivity to a political solution based on acceptance of Israel's 1967 borders. Israel ignored these diplomatic initiatives, and failed to carry out its side of the ceasefire agreement that involved some easing of the blockade that had been restricting the entry to Gaza of food, medicine, and fuel to a trickle
5/1/2009 |
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New Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network report on the freedom of Association
In December 2007, the Euro-Meditteranean Human Rights Network issued the first report on freedom of association. This work includes a complete inventory, country by country, of the exercise of freedom of association in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
20/12/2007 |
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United Nations adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The General Assembly today adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing discrimination against them. The Declaration emphasizes the rights of indigenous peoples to maintain and strengthen their own institutions, cultures and traditions and to pursue their development in keeping with their own needs and aspirations.It also prohibits discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them, and their right to remain distinct and to pursue their own visions of economic and social development.
13/9/2007 |
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UN Reports highlights' HRA claims of discriminatory policies that are affecting the Palestinians Arab Minorities in Israel
On October 2nd, the UN Human Rights Council published a report based on their investigatory mission to Lebanon and Israel with respect to the impact of the war and its aftermaths. The report was authored by four Special Rapporteurs which mandates relate to different aspects of human rights.
11/10/2006 |
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