Date: 26 May 2022   Position paper issued by Palestinian Human Rights and Civil Society Organizations On the adoption of the National Mechanism against Torture Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations have followed up the establishment of the National Mechanism against Torture since the State of Palestine's accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture in 2017 and have held a dialogue over four years with the official Government Team on the implementation of the State of Palestine's obligations under its accession to the Protocol, ref...

Memo Addressed to Attorney General and Director of the Ombudsman and Human Rights Office on Preventing a Lawyer from Meeting her Client   Respected Attorney General Mr. Akram Al-Khatib, His Excellency Brigadier Rudayna Bani Odeh, Director of the Ombudsman and Human Rights Office,   MUSAWA - The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession expresses its greetings, and demonstrates that it received a complaint from lawyer Ms. Marwa Raddad, the lawyer of client S.H who is arrested in Tulka...

  Let the Decree-law on the fees of Administrative Courts be abolished immediately and without delay We look forward to a loud voice and active lobbying from the Bar Association and all other institutions and societal bodies to get its issuer to abolish it. Again, under the cover of darkness and in an individualistic manner that only takes into consideration the interest of the executive authority and the powerful individuals in governance, and on the altar of the Basic Law, the President promulgates a Decree-Law h...