A position paper issued by The Civic Coalition for Monitoring the Legislative Process: The decree-law draft on amending the Associations Act undermines the work of civil society organizations and threatens their sustainability   The Civic Coalition for monitoring the legislative process called earlier for a meeting, which was held at Al- Haq institution’s headquarters, to discuss the decree-law of 2018 on amending the Associations Act of 2000 and its amendments. This decree-law is on the Ministers’ council agenda, but was never a...

MUSAWA Conducts Two Workshops on Sexual Harassment and Cyber Blackmailing MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, conducted two training workshops on Sexual Harassment and Cyber Blackmailing. The first was conducted on September 18, 2018, in cooperation with Shoruq Organization in al-Dheisheh camp, and the second on September 20, 2018, in cooperation with the Popular Committee at Aqbet Jaber camp. These workshops come as part of the Legal Clinic program, under which MU...

Press Release from the Civil Society Organizations and the General Committee on the Constitutional Court’s Explanatory Decision Regarding the Legal Nature of the Police Service and the Military Concern   The Palestinian civil society organizations and their coalitions, and the Independent Commission for Human Rights, are deeply shocked at the explanatory decision of the high Constitutional Court No 02/2018 that was issued on 12/9/2018, which tends to consider the police system as a military body, whose personnel are subjected  to...