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14-11-06, 05:51 PM
Sheffield: Human Rights & Israeli Wrongs with speakers from Al-Haq
14 November 2006
Human Rights & Israeli Wrongs
Gareth Gleed, Legal Researcher for Al-Haq and a Palestinian co-worker will be speaking in Sheffield as part of a UK and Ireland speaking tour.
MEETING: 7.30pm Tuesday 14th November
Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Palestinian Human Rights meeting
Ramallah based Al-Haq, founded 1979, was one of the first human rights organisations established in the Arab world. The group of Palestinian lawyers aims to address the lack of human rights protection mechanisms in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). It has been the West Bank Affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists - Geneva for over 20 years. Al-Haq produced some of the first studies using humanitarian law to analyse a situation of occupation.
Al-Haq’s early studies, on topics such as administrative detention, were seminal in shaping debate on what is applicable law in the OPT. It remains at the forefront of the international campaign on collective punishment, considered both as human rights violations and as war crimes.
14 November 2006
Human Rights & Israeli Wrongs
Gareth Gleed, Legal Researcher for Al-Haq and a Palestinian co-worker will be speaking in Sheffield as part of a UK and Ireland speaking tour.
MEETING: 7.30pm Tuesday 14th November
Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Palestinian Human Rights meeting
Ramallah based Al-Haq, founded 1979, was one of the first human rights organisations established in the Arab world. The group of Palestinian lawyers aims to address the lack of human rights protection mechanisms in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). It has been the West Bank Affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists - Geneva for over 20 years. Al-Haq produced some of the first studies using humanitarian law to analyse a situation of occupation.
Al-Haq’s early studies, on topics such as administrative detention, were seminal in shaping debate on what is applicable law in the OPT. It remains at the forefront of the international campaign on collective punishment, considered both as human rights violations and as war crimes.