Through No Fault of Their Own
Punitive House Demolitions during the al-Aqsa Intifada

During the course of the al-Aqsa intifada, which began in September 2000, Israel has
implemented a policy of mass demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. In
that period, Israel has destroyed some 4,170 Palestinian homes.

Case Review: Unrecognized Education System

In June 2004, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of some three hundred three- and four-year-old Arab Bedouin children who were denied the opportunity to attend kindergarten because of the Ministry of Education's refusal to establish kindergartens in the "unrecognized villages" in which the children live

Adalah's Newsletter, Volume 6, October 2004

How will historians view the demonstrations by the Palestinian Arab minority that occurred in
early October 2000? Has sufficient time passed for historians to connect the demonstrations to
other events that took place before

The Or Commission Compared to the US Kerner Commission*
By Professor Yoav Peled*

The question I want to raise is this: What conception of Israeli democracy guided the Or
Commission in drafting its report? In other words

TUNISIA: LONG-TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

Tunisia’s policy of placing some of its more than 500 political prisoners in strict, longterm
solitary confinement is one of the harshest holdovers from the prison regime of the
1990s, when conditions were worse overall.

The limitations on the right to education before the Supreme Court

The right to education is not among the recognized constitutional rights enumerated in Israel 's Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom-1992

Forbidden Roads:

The Discriminatory West Bank Road Regime

On 23 March 2004, the day after the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmad Yassin, the Israeli media reported that the IDF had imposed a total closure on the Occupied Territories and a siege on cities in the West Bank

Ministry of Justice report on prison conditions, 2003

Public Defender: prison conditions for detainees in Israel are so grave as to infringe on prisoners' health and dignity, and they contravene court rulings

In memoriam Hanan Baron

Hanan Bar-On, who died in May, chaired the Board of Directors of Sikkuy for ten years. This was in addition to the demanding positions he held at the Weizmann Institute of Science during that period, as Vice President and later Senior Advisor to the President.

The Bureaucracy of Occupation:
the District Civil Liaison Offices

One of the defining characteristics of the move from feudal to modern
society was the removal of internal borders and the institution of freedom
of passage.

Rafah Crossing: Interim Status Report
(16 August 2004)

The Rafah crossing is the only exit point from the Gaza strip to all points abroad, which does not entail entering Israel (e.g. via Erez). The crossing services all those heading abroad, including patients traveling to receive medical treatment unavailable from the Palestinian health services.

Forbidden Families
Family Unification and Child Registration in East Jerusalem

In 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and cut it off from the rest of the West Bank. However, the establishment of the political border did not sever social and family ties between the residents on both sides, which continue to the present. These ties include marriage.

Israel and the Occupied Territories
Torn Apart: Families split by discriminatory
policies

A new law passed by the Israeli parliament on 31 July 2003 bars family unification for Israelis who are married to Palestinians from the Occupied Territories. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law1 explicitly discriminates against Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It also implicitly discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who constitute some 20% of the Israeli population,

The State of Human Rights in Israel 2 0 0 4

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) publishes an annual report documenting the latest developments in the field of human rights in Israel and the occupied territories.

Israel - A Safe Haven?
Problems in the Treatment Offered
by the State of Israel
to Refugees and Asylum Seekers

We especially thank the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University, whose support enabled us to conduct this study. The Public Interest Law Resource Center was established thanks to the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

New B'Tselem report: permit system to cross separation barrier is racist
"Seam Area" regime prevents Palestinian farmers from reaching their fields and is based on racist criteria

Since October 2003, Israel has implemented a new permit system in the enclaves it created between the separation barrier and the Green Line

Not all it Seems
Preventing Palestinians Access to their Lands
West of the Separation Barrier in the Tulkarm-Qalqiliya Area

Introduction
In August 2003, Israel completed construction of Stage 1 of the separation barrier. This
section runs for 125 kilometers from Sallem

Special Report Released by the Mossawa Center
Racism in Israel 2004: Thousands of Arab Citizens Suffer from
Racism, Xenophobia, Incitement and Violence

1/6/2004
Thousands of Arab citizens suffer from xenophobia, incitement, racial discrimination, racial violence and hate speech. These findings were included in the special report published today by the Mossawa Center.

Peace Index: May 2004

The rate of Jewish Israelis who currently view the Sharon government's security policy as successful is double the rate of those who see this policy as a failure. Likewise, the rate of those who believe the IDF is coping successfully with the Palestinian military activity against Israel is seven times (!)

Peace Index: data tables

What is your stance towards the Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (Agreement of Principles)?

Amnesty International Report 2004

Yemen
The General People's Congress retained its position as Yemen's ruling party after elections that began on 27 April. The elections were marred by violence, during which five people were killed, and reported electoral irregularities. Women remained underrepresented; only 13 stood for election and none was elected .

Amnesty International Report 2004

Lebanon
Covering events from January - December 2003 Scores of people, including prisoners of conscience, were arrested, many of them arbitrarily. Most were released within hours or days. Many were Islamist activists held in connection with alleged "terrorism"; some were held for alleged "collaboration" with Israel.

Amnesty International Report 2004

Morocco / Western Sahara
Covering events from January - December 2003 Forty-five people were killed in several bomb attacks in Casablanca on 16 May. The authorities intensified their clampdown on suspected Islamist activists, begun in 2002, passing a new "anti-terrorist" law on 28 May.

Report: one in every three Palestinians is unemployed

One out of every three Palestinians is unemployed due to increased closures and restrictions imposed by the Israeli army on the territories-this, according to a report released by the International Labor Organization (ILO)

Amnesty International Report 2004

Algeria
Covering events from January - December 2003 Hundreds of people were killed in the internal conflict that had been raging since 1992. Hundreds of civilians were killed in attacks by armed groups. Hundreds of members of the security forces and state-armed militias were killed in attacks and ambushes.

Amnesty International Report 2004

Bahrain
Covering events from January - December 2003 In the wake of the wide-ranging reforms of 2001, concrete safeguards for human rights continued to be implemented. Nevertheless, several journalists were prosecuted in connection with articles published.

Amnesty International Report 2004

Jordan
Covering events from January - December 2003 At least 15 women were reportedly victims of family killings for which leniency in sentencing of the perpetrators continued. At least 15 people were sentenced to death and seven executed.

Amnesty International Report 2004

Libya
Covering events from January - December 2003
In January, the election of Libya as Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights became highly politicized.

Amnesty International Report 2004

Huge challenges confronted the international human rights movement in 2003. The UN faced a crisis of legitimacy and credibility because of the USled war on Iraq and the organization's inability to hold states to account for gross human rights violations.

Israel and the Occupied Territories
Under the rubble: House demolition and destruction of land and

The destruction of Palestinian homes, agricultural land and other property in the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, is inextricably linked with Israel’s long-standing policy of appropriating as much as possible of the land it occupies, notably by establishing Israeli settlements