His Excellency Dr. Ahmad Bahar/ Gaza, Ombudsman Office   Subject: Discrimination against Women in Holding Public Office   MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession extend their warmest greetings, noting that we received a written complaint on 25/09/2017 from a citizen named Huda Tayseer Adwan, stating that she applied for the job...

Saying NO to sex-based discrimination in senior positions in the judiciary: Women have the right to hold public office and senior positions of all levels MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, along with the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) signed below, express their deep discontent at excluding a woman from serving as a magistrate judge merely because she is a woman; an unjust decision that has no legitimate justification, and blatantly deviates from the provisions of the Basic Law, in particula...

Demands Rise for the Establishment of an Impartial Professional Committee to Investigate the Reasons behind the Repeated Death Incidents at the Detention Centers in Gaza The undersigned Civil Society Organizations and legal figures express their shock and deep concern about the repeated death cases of the citizens who are indicted or detained in the detention centers of the district prosecution in the city of Gaza. We demand that an impartial professional committee be established to investigate the reasons behind the reoccurrence of such incidents, the latest of which was the...