The Responsible Authorities in Gaza Must Immediately Stop the Capital Punishment And the Duty Bearers Must Take Legislative and Administrative Measures to Guarantee the Abolition of Death Penalties in Text and Practice   Palestine’s signing of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, as well as the ...

MUSAWA's Position on the Draft of Decree-Law Medical and Health Protection and Safety   As the Palestinian center for the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession adheres to the civil society organizations’ opposition issuing legislation and laws on the contrary of the principle of separation of powers which gives the powers of issuing them to the legislative council, and to other bodies in urgent cases that do not tolerate delay and can only be handled by a legislation, such as grave danger cases, a ...

  The Community is Entitled to Lawful Accountability   After reviewing the statement issued by the Public Prosecution and the General Directorate of Police on what the statement called “the merits of the incident which took place yesterday morning with the Deputy Prosecutor at the branch of the General Investigation Directorate in Hebron”, MUSAWA believes that the Attorney General, to whom the file was referred to follow-up on the details and take the necessary legal action; as is literally said in the statement, shall inform the ...