Ref:
19/2011

On Monday, 04 April 2011, the Democratic
Development Unit of the Palestinian
Center for Human Rights
(PCHR) organized a panel discussion on the right to peaceful assembly under the
Palestinian Authority. The panel
discussion was organized in cooperation with Reyadah Association for Community
Development in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip.

The panel discussion was held in Reyadah’s main
office, and was attended by 23 members of the Association. In his presentation titled “the Right to
Peaceful Assembly under the Palestinian Authority,” Mahmoud al-Efranji, a
researcher in PCHR Democratic Development Unit, discussed the right to peaceful
assembly. Later, there was a discussion
by participants on the concept of the right to peaceful assembly, international
standards and domestic laws which ensure and organize the freedom of peaceful
demonstration and the right to peaceful assembly in the Gaza Strip and the West
Bank, particularly in light of the political fragmentation.

This meeting is part of a 3-year project, funded
by the European Union and Oxfam Novib, whose goal is to improve awareness and
respect of human rights in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory. Such meetings are part of fruitful efforts
made by PCHR to promote democratic awareness in the Palestinian community under
the lack of the Palestinians’ confidence in the democratic process due to the
political fragmentation and its consequences.