News (10)
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UN Marks 75 Years of Palestinian Displacement |
By :UN |
15 May 2023 |
UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians
The UN on Monday commemorated for the first time in its history, the mass displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel, 75 years ago, that turned 700,000 Palestinians into refugees, almost overnight.
The mass displacement in 1948, known as the More...
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Palestine: The Ongoing Nakba at 75 |
By :Al-Haq |
15 May 2023 |
Israeli Apartheid - The Legacy of the Ongoing Nakba at 75
Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). Palestinian society was decimated during the Nakba, 531 More...
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Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism |
By :Al Haq |
29 November 2022 |
Landmark Palestinian Coalition Report: Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November 2022, Al-Haq launched its inaugural coalition report titled: Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism. It reflects the collaborative efforts of civil society and academic authors Rania Muhareb, More...
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Global CSOs Demand Response to Israeli Raids |
By :Various organizations |
24 August 2022 |
Over 200 Organizations Demand International Community Stand Against Raids and Closures of 7 Palestinian Organizations
Amid Israel’s escalating attacks targeting their work, a group of more than 200 Palestinian, regional, and international organizations express our full solidarity with the designated seven leading Palestinian civil society organizations, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human More...
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South Africa: Lindokuhle Mnguni Assassinated |
By :Abahlali baseMjondolo |
20 August 2022 |
Press statement
In the early hours of this morning Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana Commune and the Youth League, was assassinated at the Commune.
Mnguni was a powerful intellectual with a mind like a razor. He was a young man with real vision and commitment, a brave man whose will More...
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Palestine: Israeli Forces Raid Human Rights Offices |
By :Bethan McKernan, The Guardian |
18 August 2022 |
Israeli forces raid offices of six Palestinian human rights groups
Property confiscated in move decried as ‘appalling attack’ on Palestinian civil society in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have raided the offices of six Palestinian human rights groups in the occupied West Bank that it previously accused of being terrorist organisations, a More...
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International Outrage over Israel NGO Attacks |
By :Miriam Berger, The Washington Post |
18 August 2022 |
Israel shutters Palestinian rights groups, drawing diplomatic backlash
TEL AVIV—Israel closed the offices of five leading Palestinian rights organizations in an early-morning raid in Ramallah on Thursday, tightening its restrictions on civil society nearly a year after it labeled the organizations terrorist groups in an internationally criticized move.
Israel says the organizations More...
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20th of May: The Symbolism of a Date |
By :Luisa Teotónio Pereira, Estante P |
21 May 2022 |
Today marks a significant milestone for East Timor and Western Sahara. As East Timor (a.k.a. Timor l`Este conducts its own presidential elections, the online edition of the portuguese daily newspaper Estante P has published an article written by a member of the Portugal-Western Sahara Friendship Association, Luisa Teotónio Pereira, that More...
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
By :HIC-HLRN |
15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and More...
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Decriminalize Palestinian Human Rights CSOs! |
By :HIC |
10 November 2021 |
Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights Organizations facing Israel’s Criminalization
Today, HIC`s Board adopted a statement in solidarity with the six Palestinian human rights organizsations, including HIC Members, that Israel`s Minister of Defense has deemed "terrorist organisations. The full public statement follows here:
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) strongly condemns Israel`s Minister of More...
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