Legal Memos

Legal memos aim to draw the attention of Palestinian decision makers to violations of the law whilst highlighting the appropriate means available to enforce the law in the best possible manner in accordance with international criteria. These memos contribute effectively to MUSAWA's strategic goal to contribute to the upholding of the rule of law in the State of Palestine.

 

Below is an overview of most legal memos that were sent by MUSAWA. In addition the legal memos are published in our multi-annual magazine Eye on Justice, which can be found here.

MUSAWA’s Initiative to Solve the Teachers’ Strike Crisis

Date 2022-05-17

LOCATION WESTBANK

MUSAWA’s Initiative to Solve the Teachers’ Strike Crisis

Category position paper

The Security Approach and Fighting the Livelihood Only Deepens the Crisis and Does Not Help in Resolving It. News circulated on social media platforms that the government is planning to deduct the teachers’ salaries, despite being modest salaries, claiming that their strike is an act of absenteeing from work, even though their strike is a legitimate union struggle in defense of their union and living demands to protects their dignity, social status, mission and their educational role in building and establishing the Palestinian students, considering that they are the real weal...

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MUSAWA Condemns the Assassination of Palestinian Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

MUSAWA Condemns the Assassination of Palestinian Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh   MUSAWA- The Palestinian Center for the independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession mourns with deep sadness and anger the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was assassinated in cold blood by the Israeli occupation army this morning during its raid in Jenin refugee camp, in violation of international laws and norms, and a week after celebrating the World Press Freedom Day!  

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Statement on the Transfer of the Headquarters of the Hebron Court of Appeals

A Decision Obstructing Justice and Costly to the Treasury must be Rescinded   The High Judicial Council announced in a statement posted on its website and Facebook page, on 20.4.2022, the movement of the headquarters of the Hebron Appeal Court from the Dura Magistrate Court building to the former Hebron Court of First Instance building, located in Hebron, Al-Mazrouq neighborhood, as of Monday morning, corresponding to 25.04.2022. The Judicial Administration had previously held, only 25 days before its aforementioned announcement...

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