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On 1 November 2009, Adalah received a letter from the Attorney General (AG) of Israel, Menachem Mazuz, informing of his intention to indict MK Muhammed Barakeh, the Head of the Democratic Front for...

On 30 September 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Employment Office , the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, and the "Faithful Work" Center demanding that an order be issued for the equal...

Over three days, from 6-8 October 2009, Adalah held its 4th Annual Arab Law Students’ Conference at Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salaam. Seventy law students from Israeli colleges and universities and Al...

Today, 27 October 2009, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Walid Dakka, who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel classified by the Israel Prison Service as a...

On 30 September 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Employment Office , the Minister of Industry and Trade and the "Faithful Work" Center demanding that an order be issued to equally reimburse the...

On 21 October 2009, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) District Court on behalf of Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hieran to overturn the...

On 12 October 2009, the Haifa Administrative Court heard a petition submitted by Adalah against the National Council for Planning and Building in March 2009 on behalf of 43 residents of the village...

On 16 October 2009, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution endorsing the report and recommendations published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the...

On behalf of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), the State Attorney General Office committed to providing the opportunity for Arab prisoners, especially those who are illiterate, to learn the Arabic...

On 13 October 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Internal Security, and the Chief Commander of the Israeli police demanding that they refrain from activating a new undercover...

Haifa, 14 October 2009) Tomorrow, Thursday 15 October and Friday 16 October 2009, the UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session in Geneva, as requested by the Palestinian Authority, in...

On 5 October 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz, and the government official responsible for the Islamic waqf in Israel, demanding that the appointment...

On 29 September 2009, Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights organizations at an event held at the 12th session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland called upon States to...

On 15 August 2009, Adalah submitted a petition to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Administrative Court demanding that it compel the Ministry of Education (MOE) to allocate a personal assistant to an...

Adalah in Supplemental Petition to Supreme Court: Non-Implementation of Court Decision Reveals State Contempt of Court On 22 September 2009, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel...

ine Years after the October 2000 Events, Demonstrators Suppressed in the Same Way (Haifa, Israel) Today, 22 September 2009, Adalah published a report which exposes the ways in which the Israeli law...

On 9 September 2009, Adalah filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Mr. Muayad Bushnak, a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel imprisoned in an Israeli prison, against a decision...

On 10 September 2009, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on an appeal filed by Adalah on behalf of 486 Arab landowners in Lajoun against a 2007 District Court decision, which refused their...

On 9 September 2009, the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court issued a temporary injunction preventing the firing of Arab railway inspectors by the Israel Railway Company on the grounds that they have not...

As Palestinian human rights organizations, we welcome the report by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Fact Finding Mission) , released on 15 September 2009 and...