Palestinian Bar Association along with 160 Civil Society Organizations  Demand Rapid Adoption, Approval, Issuance and Enforcement of  Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Declaration On 15/08/2016, the Palestinian Bar Association along with 160 civil society organizations, including the Palestinian NGOs Network which consists of more than 130 civil society organizations; the General Union of Palestinian Women; MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession; the Palestinia...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Riyad Al-Malki, MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession would like to extend its greetings and inform you that, on 28/06/2016, MUSAWA received a written complaint from Mr. Bassam Al-Qawasmi, a diplomat in the Embassy of Palestine in Tunis, stating that his requests to your Excellency regarding assigning his wife by the Ministry of Education to accompany him during his work and to continue paying her salary were denied. In his complaint, ...

MUSAWA sent a legal memo on 28/07/2016 to the Public Prosecutor/Gaza and the Head of the Military Justice Commission/Gaza in response to a complaint submitted by lawyer Tha’er Abu-Safiyyeh regarding the failure to implement court rulings and decisions and arbitrary detention. Following is the legal memo:   Public Prosecutor, Dr. Ismaeel Jaber / Gaza Head of Military Justice Commission, Mr. Nasser Suleiman Abu-Nader / Gaza Subject: Failure to Implement Court Rulings and Decisions, and Arbitrary Detention