Legal Memos

Legal memos aim to draw the attention of Palestinian decision makers to violations of the law whilst highlighting the appropriate means available to enforce the law in the best possible manner in accordance with international criteria. These memos contribute effectively to MUSAWA's strategic goal to contribute to the upholding of the rule of law in the State of Palestine.

 

Below is an overview of most legal memos that were sent by MUSAWA. In addition the legal memos are published in our multi-annual magazine Eye on Justice, which can be found here.

The World Shall Judge You and You Will Lose Your People As You Forfeit Their...

The World Shall Judge You and You Will Lose Your People As You Forfeit Their Right to Self-determination   The systematic and structural campaign of abuse that violates human dignity and physical integrity, which targeted dozens of peaceful citizens who took to the streets speaking up in the face of the assassination of person of conscience, only because he expressed an opinion about public matters, which is a mere right guaranteed to all citizens under the social contract represented by the Declaration of Independence and The Basic Law, wh...

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Human rights organisations call for holding to account perpetrators of attack...

Date 2021-06-27

LOCATION West Bank

Human rights organisations call for holding to account perpetrators of attacks on peaceful assemblies and warn of a breakdown of the human rights situation

Category West Bank / Core Program / position paper

Human rights organisations call for holding to account perpetrators of attacks on peaceful assemblies and warn of a breakdown of the human rights situation On Sunday, 27 June 2021, Palestinian human rights groups held an emergency meeting at Al-Haq in the aftermath of attacks by Palestinian security agencies on participants in peaceful assemblies organised over recent days in the city centre of Ramallah. Protestors expressed their open condemnation of the murder of political activist Nizar Banat, while he was being arrested by security services.

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Stop Tampering with The Social Contract and People's Rights: Let the State of...

Date 2021-06-02

LOCATION West Bank and Gaza

Stop Tampering with The Social Contract and People's Rights: Let the State of Emergency Be Canceled Immediately

Category West Bank / Gaza / Core Program / position paper

Stop Tampering with The Social Contract and People's Rights: Let the State of Emergency Be Canceled Immediately   The executive authority insists and perseveres in its singularity and dominance once again where it adheres to imposing measures that affect the right of citizens to participate in public life and decides to extend the new state of emergency that it declared last month which lasted for 16 months. This state of emergency takes the form of a declaration and then an extension, in clear contradiction with the Basic Law and the Declaration of Ind...

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