Based on MUSAWA's role as an independent civil monitoring body, and its belief in democracy and the principle of direct periodic elections, the peaceful transfer of power, and the right of citizens to choose their representatives, MUSAWA formed a team to monitor the elections of the Palestinian Bar Council for 2022-2025 in the Jerusalem and Gaza stations, which was held on May 15, 2022, with the approval of the Central Elections Committee of the Bar association. MUSAWA’s monitoring team included 24 observers, distributed over 11 stations in all of the northern governorates, and one station...

Respected ladies and gentlemen of the Bar Council, Subject: Bar Association's opinion on Decree-laws amending the judicial legislations, the enforcement of which is deferred until first of June MUSAWA- The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession expresses its greetings and demonstrates that, despite its commitment to its legal position opposing the issuance of Decree-laws, it demands that in light of the working mechanisms followed by your distinguished Council with regards to Decree-laws, and the Bar Association’s members...

The Security Approach and Fighting the Livelihood Only Deepens the Crisis and Does Not Help in Resolving It. News circulated on social media platforms that the government is planning to deduct the teachers’ salaries, despite being modest salaries, claiming that their strike is an act of absenteeing from work, even though their strike is a legitimate union struggle in defense of their union and living demands to protects their dignity, social status, mission and their educational role in building and establishing the Palestinian students, considering that they are the real weal...