Success Story: Following MUSAWA’s Memo, the Public Prosecution Forms a Government Committee for Addressing the Phenomenon of Organized Child Begging in Gaza   According to article 43 of the Palestinian Child Law No (7) of 2004, “It is prohibited to exploit children for begging, and it is likewise prohibited to employ them under illegal conditions, or to assign them to render jobs that interfere with their schooling, or af...

MUSAWA Renews its Demand to Cancel the Security Clearance Procedure and to Assess the Legitimacy of the High Judicial Council's Composition and the Legality of its Resolutions   MUSAWA- The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession obtained two copies of petitions filed with the Supreme Court of Justice by the lawyers, Anas Jamil Abdulrahim Gada’, from the village of Habla in Qalqilya Governorate, and Hasan Saadi Hasan Sawalme, from the village of Asira in Nablus Governorate. The petitions we...

Time to Ascertain the Validity of the Appointment of All Judges and Prosecutors and to evaluate their Performance in order to face the Crisis of Performance and Judicial Backlog   Informed sources told MUSAWA that January’s number of circulated files at the Court of Cassation reached 4229 of civil cases and 232 of criminal cases, which were circulated from previous months. As for the number of cases received during January (until the 29th), it reached 153 civil cases, and 79 criminal cases, a total of 4382 civil cases and 311 criminal ...