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16/06/2016

PHROC Sends Letter to UN High Commissioner and Special Rapporteurs on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

Earlier this week, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) issued a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ZeidRa’ad Al Hussein, numerous Special Rapporteurs, and independent experts on attacks against human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Occupied Palestine Territory and within the Green Line. PHROC highlighted that Palestinian HRDs are regularly […]

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30/05/2016

PHROC welcomes statements by European officials to uphold the right to participate in and call for BDS measures

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) commends recent statements by European officials on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. On May 26, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bert Koenders, affirmed “Statements or meetings concerning BDS are as enshrined in the Dutch Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.” Also on Thursday, Ireland’s Minister […]

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23/05/2016

Hurryyat Demands the Immediate Release of Prisoner Yusri Al-Masri Suffering Critical Health Conditions

The Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” demands the immediate release of sick prisoner Yusri Al-Masri without further delay, and calls upon the international human rights organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge the Occupation Authorities release him immediately due to […]

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12/05/2016

The Nakba at 68: A catastrophe born of discrimination and impunity

As Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (approximately 66% of Palestinian population worldwide) enter the 69th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland, Israel continues to create intolerable living conditions which further swell the number of displaced Palestinians. This ongoing Nakba(‘catastrophe’) is perpetuated through Israel’s denial of the Palestinian refugees’ Right of Return, the […]

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12/04/2016

Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) stands in solidarity with Egyptian Human Rights Defenders

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) expresses its solidarity with Egyptian civil society organizations and human rights defenders. PHROC is deeply concerned over the issuance of travel bans, asset freezes, and summons for questioning against Egyptian human rights defenders, and the administrative decision to close the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of […]

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04/04/2016

A Letter to President Mahmoud Abbas Concerning the Constitutional Court: Human Rights Organizations Demand the Formation of the Court be the Culmination of Restoring the Constitutional Life and Unifying the Judiciary

  The Palestinian human rights organizations delivered, on Sunday 3rd April 2016, a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, soon after announcing the formation of the Supreme Constitutional Court, demanding “the necessity to form the Supreme Constitutional Court as a final step after the restoration of the constitutional life represented in the general elections (presidential and […]

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23/03/2016

PHROC Stands in Solidarity with the Manasrah Family for Refusing to Receive their Son’s Frozen Body

The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) supports the decision taken by the family of 15-year-old Hassan Khaled Manasrah, from occupied Jerusalem, to not receive his body which was in a humiliating and degrading state. PHROC also denounces Israel’s continued policy of withholding 14 Palestinian bodies and setting degrading conditions and terms for their burial. […]

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22/03/2016

Appointment of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

Attn.: Ambassador Choi Kyonglim, President of the Human Rights Council E-mail: hrcpresidency@unog.org Palestine,  21 March 2016 Re: Appointment of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967   Your Excellency, The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) is deeply concerned to learn that the appointment of a new […]

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20/03/2016

The Civil Society Forms a Crisis Committee against the Procedures of the Executive Authority

The expanded meeting of the civil society organizations, including participation from Gaza  via “video conference” today Sunday, recommended to form a crisis committee to oppose the procedures of the executive authority breaching the public rights and freedoms, especially its constant violations against charity associations, non-profit companies, and the civil work in Palestine in general. The […]

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14/03/2016

Hurryyat Condemns the Decision of the Israeli Occupation Authorities to Close Palestine Today TV

The Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” condemned the invasion of the Palestine Today TV by the Israeli Occupation Authorities in Al-Bireh, the confiscation of the properties of Transmedia Company and the closing of the channel due to incitement justifications. It also condemned the Israel’s persistent violation of the journalistic and […]

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