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This seminar is being presented by the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), focusing on Arab World affairs. CDDRL is a research center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studi..

In February 2020, the U.N. Human Rights Council finally published a long-delayed list of 112 companies with business activities in illegal Israeli settlements. Nine Israeli banks are on the U.N. list. Today’s new visual explains how these banks are complicit in violat..

You are asking about the needs of the towns, but the towns do not need anything. The Syrian refugee is the one who is in need. Enough with the stealing,” a Syrian refugee indignantly told us in a WhatsApp voice message. His message was a response to two qualitative WhatsApp surveys of Syrian ref..

The Trump administration has announced it no longer views Israel settlements in the occupied West Bank to be a violation of international law, in another blow to possible Israel-Palestine peace negotiations.

The special issue emerged more generally from our interest in the ambivalence of the national liberation state: on the one hand, it was an important instrument in restoring the dignity of the colonized and a source of immense hope for a better and more just wor..

This policy change by the Silicon Valley giant is an important win for Palestinian human rights, but it goes beyond that. This step sets a precedent for other tech companies to take greater responsibility for how their policies and practices affect human rights in various contexts.

On 6 February 2017, the Israeli Knesset passed the Validation Bill which retroactively sanctions the status of nearly 4,000 illegal structures built on private Palestinian land. While all settlements contravene international humanitarian law’s prohibition on the transfer of civilians into occupi..

On 28 December 2016, US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a comprehensive speech about the United States’ vision for a two state solution. Kerry’s address was remarkable for its candor: he insisted that settlements did not increase Israel’s security; he referred to Israel’s establishment a..

Michel Agier (ed.), Un monde de camps (A World of Camps), (Paris: La Découverte, 2014).

The refugee camp is a topic of interest for many s..

[On 22 July 2015 the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) issued “EU Differentiation and Israeli Settlements”, a report that called upon the European Union (EU) to take a more robust approach to Israel and foreign institutions implicated in the occupation and specifically Israel’s il..

At roughly 4 AM on Friday 31 July 2015, Israeli settlers burned to death eighteen-month old Palestinian baby boy Ali Saad Dawabsheh by setting fire to his family`s home while they slept. The family rushed out of their burning home and saved the..

In this three-minute episode, which originally aired on AJ+ Labs, host Dena Takruri explains what Israeli settlements are, the violence they cause to Palestinians, and their critical..

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel and Sylvy Jaglin, editors, Quartiers informels d’un monde arabe en transition. Réflexions et perspectives pour l’action urbaine [Informal Settlements in an Arab World in Transition. Reflections and Perspectives for Urban Action]. Paris: Agence Fran..

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Pierre-Arnaud Barthel et Sylvy Jaglin (éds.), Quartiers informels d’un monde arabe en transition. Réflexions et perspectives pour l’action urbaine, (Paris: Agence Française pour le Développement, Conférences et Séminaires no.7),159 p. Accessible

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Since its establishment, Israel has distinguished the persons under its civil and military jurisdiction based on religion. Throughout Israel Proper and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), comprised of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Israel applies a different s..

[The following statement was issued on 25 March 2013 by the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council.]

Occupied Ramallah, 25 March 2013 - On Friday, 22 March, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council) adopted a r..

[The following press release and report were issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 January 2013.]

The International Fact-Finding Mi..

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Today, I walked onto an Israeli settlement for the first time in my life, one where most of the land it stands on once belonged to my grandfather. I needed the settlers’ permission to walk onto this soil. As I walked down the sidewalk, I felt alienation and contentment all at once. The first for..

Alice Walker has been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palesti..

HCJ 1213/10, Eyal Nir, et al. v. Speaker of the Knesset, et al 
(decision delivered 23 February 2012)

"Within the Hebrew language`s concept of amnesty," wrote former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohen, "there has long been an el..