Ref: 36/2013 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for an immediate and independent investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Palestinian prisoner, Maysara Abu Hamdiya, in Soroka Hospital inside Israel. PCHR is deeply concerned that the Israeli authorities may have delayed in offering Abu Hamdiya timely...
Ref: 24/2013 The Democratic Development Unit (DDU) of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) organized three seminars in cooperation with the National Palestinian Association for Youth (Benaa’) in Gaza City in the last two days. Those meetings which targeted groups of youth addressed with two tpics: the right of political...
In October 2011, Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, delivered a lecture which was jointly hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. The lecture was moderated by Dr Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for...
Ref: 35/2013 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls upon the Attorney General in Gaza to conduct an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a man while he was being detained in the detention facility of Rafah police station, and to publish the results of the investigation. ...
Ref: 23/2013 On Thursday, 28 March 2013, the training unit of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) organized two meetings to raise awareness on mechanisms of access to justice and judicial remedy for Palestinian fishermen in Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip. Around 150 fishermen,...
The Israeli forces have continued to close Karm Abu Salem and Beit Hanoun (Eirez) crossings for the seventh consecutive day. Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory oPt The Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.4 protestors were...
Ref: 22/2013 The training unit of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) had organized 3 meetings to raise awareness on judicial remedy for Palestinian farmers in border areas, and the forth one targeted Palestinian fishermen in Khan Yunis in March 2013. Ahlam al-Aqra’, a lawyer at the PCHR’s Legal Aid...
Majid Abdel Aziz Wahdan (52) in the land he farms in Beit HanounFollowing its disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, Israel unilaterally and unlawfully established a so-called ‘buffer zone’, an area prohibited to Palestinians along the land and sea borders of the Gaza Strip. The precise...
Ref: 21/2013 On Monday, 25 March 2013, the Training Unit of the Palestinian Centre Human Rights (PCHR) concluded a training course in the field of the right to adequate housing, land and property, and judicial remedies in cooperation with the Agricultural Development Association (Agricultural Relief). The 10-hour course was held in...
Ref: 33/2013 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Ministry of Interior's decision to prevent Amal Hamad, a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement, from travelling to the West Bank via Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. PCHR calls upon the Attorney...
