Banning Human Rights Defenders: Comparing Apartheids
The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations
Published : 16 November 2021
Tel Aviv Eviction: 1st Arabs, Then Mizrahi Jews
Tel Aviv Evicts Residents of Working-class Neighborhood after a Decades-long Battle Some of the Givat Amal residents are barricading in their homes as police are trying to evict them Police evicted the final 32 families from Tel
Published : 15 November 2021
Copping-out at CoP26
The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) ended in grave disappointment at the state delegations who weakened the needed commitments to save the planet from multiple climate disasters. This CoP, the supreme governing body of international
Published : 14 November 2021
Western Sahara: This Year of War
PRESSRELEASE The Inalienable Right to Self-Determination of the Saharawi People Is Not Negotiable BirLehlu/Geneva,13November2021 Since the invasion of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco, the month of November has been a period of painful recurrence for the
Published : 13 November 2021
Jerusalem: New Tools of Permanent Annexation
PHROC, CAC & Others Send Joint Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Procedures on Israel’s Permanent Illegal Annexation of Jerusalem On 8 November 2021, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), compromising of eleven Palestinian
Published : 13 November 2021
Lebanon ‘brutally impoverished,’ ‘lost trust’
Statement by Professor Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, on his visit to Lebanon, 1–12 November 2021 Beirut, 12 November 2021 Introduction "Lebanon has been embroiled in an economic, social, financial
Published : 12 November 2021
Palestine/Israel: Naqab Villages ‘Recognized,’ but...
On 3 November, the Israeli Cabinet approved the decision to establish a `non-tribal` Bedouin city in the Naqab/Negev, inside the Green Line, and to ‘recognize’ the till-now ‘unrecognized’ Palestinian Arab villages of Khašim Zannih, ʿAbdih and Rakhamah. That
Published : 11 November 2021
Attacks on harvest in oPt most dangerous in years
Palestinian olive farmers say attacks `under the watchful eye` of the Israeli army have destroyed the otherwise festive harvest season In the space of less than 10 days, Musleh Badawi and his family have been attacked three
Published : 11 November 2021
Decriminalize Palestinian Human Rights CSOs!
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
Published : 10 November 2021
