Ref: 45/2015 On Thursday, 13 August 2015, PCHR concluded the first training course for young lawyers in litigation before Sharia courts this year. The 18-hour training course was held in Laterna restaurant in Gaza City from 09 to 13 August 2015 and was attended by 34...
Ref: 44/2015 On Thursday, 13 August 2015, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a seminar titled "Is the UNRWA Crisis Financial or Political?" The seminar was held in the Commodore Hotel in Gaza City and was attended by representatives of UNRWA, the UNRWA's Arab...
Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (06 – 12 August 2015) Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian, southwest of Ramallah in excessive use of force. Sa'ed Dawabsha died of burns he sustained due to settlers' attack, southeast of Nablus. Israeli forces continued to open...
Ref: 43/2015 In cooperation with the Prisoners' Committee of Islamic and national Factions, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) held on Tuesday morning, 11 August 2015, a consultative meeting in presence of human rights organizations: al-Dhameer, al-Mezan and NGOs Network, and representatives of prisoners' families....
We, the undersigned members of the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), prompted by the current funding crisis faced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), take this opportunity to state our grave, collective concern at these deeply troubling developments, and to call for both the immediate...
Ref: 42/2015On the first anniversary of the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop in cooperation with the National Society for Democracy and Law (NSDL) on efforts made by human rights organizations to prosecute Israeli war criminals for...
Ref: 42/2015On the first anniversary of the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop in cooperation with the National Society for Democracy and Law (NSDL) on efforts made by human rights organizations to prosecute Israeli war criminals for...
Ref: 52-2015 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the murder of Kh. K, from al-Zawaida village in the central Gaza Strip, on the ground of the so-called “family honor". PCHR calls for bringing the perpetrators before justice, and taking necessary legal steps to stop such crimes. According to...
Ref: 51/2015On Monday morning, 09 August 2015, Israeli authorities transferred Mohammed 'Alaan, who has been on hunger strike for 58 days against being held under administrative detention, to "Berzelay" hospital in a prelude to forcibly feed him. PCHR emphasizes that the force-feeding is a form of torture, degrading treatment according...
Ref:41/2015On Saturday evening, 08 August 2015, lawyer Iyad al-Alami, Director of the Legal Aid Unit of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), testified before the UN Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs in the Occupied Territories that convened...
