Individuals endorsement of: Letter to McGill University President re Threat to SSMU in regard to ‘Palestine Solidarity Policy’ The Palestine Solidarity Policy has been APPROVED by the undergraduate student body….
GENEVA (25 April 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the international community to take immediate and effective steps to protect and sustain the six Palestinian civil society….
Amid the Escalation of Israeli Aggression Against the Palestinian People, 4,450 Palestinian are Deprived of their Liberty in Israeli Occupation Prisons
In an interview with Al-Monitor, the newly appointed UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, speaks about her plans to address human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, while fending off a smear campaign launched against her by Israel.
The Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom sent a letter to Israeli authorities protesting the Government’s proposed policy regarding the selection of international scholars and students to teach and study in Palestinian universities, giving the Israeli military the unilateral power to select and exclude scholars and students and limiting their numbers significantly, while censoring certain disciplines and foci of research. If implemented, the policy would undermine Palestinian universities’ ability to recruit appropriate faculty and curtail Palestinians’ academic freedom.
In an open letter, political analyst Asad Ghanem urges the Ukrainian president to stop employing double standards and to support the Palestinian struggle
One of the greatest squash players on earth wants us to reckon with the hypocrisy of supporting Ukraine while ignoring other injustices.
A group of mathematicians welcome the decision of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) to freeze academic cooperation with state institutions and business enterprises in Russia, in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. They call on the EMS to apply the same universal principles it has so justifiably implemented with regard to Russia and to suspend academic cooperation with the Israeli corporate members until such time as their Palestinian colleagues will be able to enjoy the full academic and political rights to which they are entitled.
Birzeit University rejects Israel’s most recent attempt to constrict the fundamental right of Palestinians to education and to undermine the academic freedom and autonomy of Palestinian universities. Scheduled to take….
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
New information:
The Observatory has been informed about the arrest and arbitrary detention of Mr. Salah Hammouri, a Franco-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
