MUSAWA’s Initiative for the Unification, Rebuilding, and Improvement of the Justice System The announcement of the national reconciliation agreement is a historic opportunity to unify and rebuild the official justice system (the Supreme Constitutional Court, the formal judicial system, the Sharia judiciary, and the Public Prosecution), particularly that the agreement won national, political and social support, and it aims at ending the dreadful division as well as embodying the unity of the land, the people, the institutions, and the authorities, manifested in h...

Representatives of over 200 Civil Society Organizations (hereinafter CSOs) – the Civic Coalition for Monitoring Legislation, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council, the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO), and the Coalition for Economic and Social Rights– called a meeting at Al-Haq organization to discuss the Decree-Law on the High Criminal Court, which was ratified by Mr. President on 30/12/2017, and was published in the Palestinian official Gazette on 08/01/2018 in complete secrecy and without community consultation. Issuing legislation which violate the rights and freedoms of the people has been the adopted approac...

  The Head and Members of the High Judicial Council/ Gaza,   Subject: Fair trial guarantees   MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession extend their greetings to you, noting that we have received a complaint on 31/12/2017 from a citizen named Fawzi Mohammad Al-Masri, residing in the city of Gaza. The complaint states that he is accused of ca...