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ADDAMEER Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Addameer is a Palestinian institution which focuses on offering support for Palestinian prisoners, advocating the rights of political prisoners, and working to end torture through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.
http://www.addameer.org/index_eng.html

Adva Center
The Adva Center conducts policy analysis, advocacy work, and public outreach to inform policy makers and the general public in Israel and abroad about issues of equity and social justice in Israeli society, integrating gender, ethnicity and nationality into its analyses.
http://www.adva.org/default.asp?lang=en

Ahali Center for Community Development
Ahali is an organization established to strengthen grassroots activism among Palestinian citizens in Israel through community organizing, as a means to struggle for full citizenship and minority rights, and to ensure the equal distribution of national resources.
http://www.ahalicenter.org/

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
The Al Mezan Center, based in the refugee camp of Jabalia in Gaza, strives to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of life of the community in marginalized sectors of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.mezan.org/site_en/index.php

Al-Haq
An affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, Al-Haq promotes the protection of human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and monitors and documents human rights violations by Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
http://www.alhaq.org

Al-Tufula: The Pedagogical and Multipurpose Women's Center
The Al-Tufula Center aims to develop the infrastructure and human resources of Palestinian women in Israel, and carries out a variety of developmental projects.
http://www.tufula.org/index.asp

Alternative Information Center (AIC)
The AIC is a Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis.
http://www.alternativenews.org/

Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA)
The HRA works to protect and promote the human rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, through human rights education among the Arab citizens in Israel and international advocacy.
http://www.arabhra.org/

Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP)
The ACAP works towards equality and integration of Israel's Arab citizens into public life activities, while preserving their cultural features and national identity, and closing existing gaps between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel in various spheres of life.
http://english.ac-ap.org/

Assiwar
Assiwar - The Arab Feminist Movement in Support of Victims of Sexual Assaults supports victims of sexual assault and violence against women and children.
http://www.assiwar.org/index.php?lang=english

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
ACRI?s goal is to protect human and civil rights in Israel and in the Palestinian territories under Israeli control. ACRI works to protect the rights of diverse individuals and sectors of society, addressing the full range of human rights.
http://www.acri.org.il/english-acri/engine/index.asp

Association of Forty
The Association of Forty promotes social justice in the Arab community in Israel, and works towards gaining recognition for the unrecognized villages.
http://www.assoc40.org/index_main.html

Aswat
Aswat is Palestinian gay women?s group which provides a safe space for any Palestinian woman who identifies as lesbian, bi-sexual, transsexual, transgender or inter-sexual and strives to generate social change in order to meet the needs of one of the most silenced and oppressed communities in Israel.
http://www.aswatgroup.org/english/

B'Tselem, The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
B'Tselem endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
http://www.btselem.org/English/

Badil, the Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights
BADIL was established to support the development of a popular refugee lobby for the right of return through professional research and partnership-based community initiatives. It aims to provide a resource pool of alternative, critical and progressive information and analysis on the question of Palestinian refugees and displaced persons.
http://www.badil.org/

Baladna
Baladna is an Arab youth organization which aims to strengthen Arab youths understanding of democracy and gender equality, to foster pluralism and tolerance, and to enable a discussion and debate about Arab Palestinian history, grievances and culture through youth activities and informal education.
http://www.baladnayouth.org/indexe.php

Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights
Bimkom strives to achieve the right to equality and social justice in matters of planning, development, and the allocation of land resources in Israel, and assists communities and minorities affected by social and economic disadvantage and by civil rights discriminations to exercise their rights in this area.
http://www.bimkom.org/aboutEng.asp

Center for Economic and Social Rights | Occupied Palestine Territories Project
The Center for Economic and Social Rights challenges economic injustice as a violation of international human rights law using a strategy that combines research, advocacy, collaboration, and education.
http://cesr.org/palestine

Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development (CJAED)
CJAED aims to close the gaps between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, thus building the foundation for sustainable economic development and peace.
http://www.cjaed.org.il/

Galilee Society - The Arab National Society for Health Research and Services
The Galilee Society's goal is to achieve equitable health, environmental, and socio-economic conditions, and to increase development opportunities for Palestinian Arabs inside Israel, both as individual citizens and as a national minority living in their homeland.
http://www.gal-soc.org/en/

Gisha ? Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement
Gisha is an Israeli not-for-profit organization that seeks to protect the fundamental rights of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories by imposing human rights law as a limitation on the behavior of Israel?s military.
http://www.gisha.org/english/index_eng.htm

HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual
An Israeli human rights organization established in 1988 against the backdrop of the first Intifada, HaMoked's main objective is to assist Palestinians whose rights are violated by the Israeli authorities or as a result of Israeli policy.
http://www.hamoked.org.il/index_en.asp

Iqrit Heritage Society
The Iqrit Heritage Society works for the return of the people of the evacuated Gailiee village of Iqrit and their resettlement in the village, and to preserve the heritage of Iqrit.
http://iqrit.org/eng/hist.htm

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group. Its activities involve resistance and protest actions in the Occupied Territories, efforts to bring the reality of the Occupation to Israeli society, and mobilizing the international community for a just peace.
http://www.icahd.org/eng/

Ittijah, The Union of Arab Community Based Associations
Ittijah is the network for Palestinian NGOs in Israel. It strives to strengthen and empower Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel by promoting the development of Palestinian civil society and advocating for political, economic and social change.
http://www.ittijah.org/

I?lam - Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel
With a commitment to media democracy in Israel, ILAM plays a key role in invigorating civil society and promoting democracy and human rights in Israel, and making the media more inclusive and balanced towards its Palestinian citizens.
http://www.ilamcenter.org/

Jerusalem Center for Social & Economic Rights (JCSER)
JCSER provides legal assistance and representation to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem subjected to discriminatory policies by the Israeli authorities, without conferring political legitimacy on Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
http://www.jcser.org/english/

Kav LaOved
Kav LaOved is dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the Occupied Territories and new immigrants.
http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/index_en.asp

Kayan Feminist Organization
Kayan's goal is to address the gender inequality at the root of Israeli Palestinian society through empowerment and community organizing, and raising awareness at national and international levels.
http://www.kayan.org.il/

Kayan Feminist Organization
Kayan's goal is to address the gender inequality at the root of Israeli Palestinian society through empowerment and community organizing, and raising awareness at national and international levels.
http://www.kayan.org.il/

Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research
Mada al-Carmel aims to promote theoretical and applied research on the Palestinian community in Israel, focusing on the social, educational, and economic needs of Palestinians in Israel, national identity and democratic citizenship, as well as broader issues of identity, citizenship, and democracy in multi-ethnic states.
http://www.mada-research.org/

Mandela Institute for Human Rights
The Mandela Institute is a Palestinian human rights organization focusing on political prisoners and their families in a holistic manner, looking at the range of medical, physical, psychological, social, spiritual and educational needs.
http://www.mandela-palestine.org/index.php

Miftah - The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
Miftah is dedicated to fostering democracy and good governance within Palestinian society through promoting public accountability, transparency, the free flow of information and ideas, and the challenging of stereotyping at home and abroad.
http://www.miftah.org/

Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel
Mossawa works to promote equality for Arab-Palestinians in Israel, utilizing advocacy methods to change the social and political status of Arab-Palestinians in Israel in an attempt to gain minority recognition and rights, without sacrificing their national and cultural rights as Palestinians.
http://www.mossawacenter.org/

Muwatin, The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy
Muwatin promotes the study and development of democracy in Palestine and in the region, through networking and activism, research and publication, preparation of educational material and its dissemination to schools and the general public.
http://www.muwatin.org/

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
PCHR is an independent legal body based in Gaza City dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law, and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/

Palestinian Commission for Refugees Rights Protection (PCRP)
The PCRP works in the field of international humanitarian law with the aims of gathering information on Palestinian refugees, connecting Palestinian refugees around the world, promoting small business projects and raising the profile of refugees? concerns in the media.
http://www.pcrp.org/En/index.php

Palestinian Prisoners? Society (PPS)
The PPS is concerned with Palestinian and Arab political prisoners in the Israeli jails, and interrogation and detention centers. It calls for the implementation of international humanitarian law and in particular the Geneva Convention protocols as they apply to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
http://www.ppsmo.org/english.html

Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
The goal of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel is to struggle for human rights, in particular the right to health, in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The organization?s activities integrate advocacy and action toward changing harmful policies and direct action providing healthcare.
http://www.phr.org.il/phr/

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
PCATI monitors the implementation of the High Court?s ruling from September 1999 to absolutely prohibit the use of torture during interrogation in detention centers, and continues the struggle against the use of torture in interrogation in Israel and the Palestinian Authority through legal means, support of relevant legislation and raising public awareness of the subject.
http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/

Regional Council of Bedouin Palestinian Unrecognized Villages in the Negev (RCUV)
The RCUV was established in the belief that the Israeli government is both responsible and obliged to develop services for the unrecognized villages regardless of the eventual solution of the land problem. It works to achieve its goals through political mobilization, promoting democracy and alternative planning, and capacity building.
http://www.rcuv.com/site/index.asp?depart_id=23392&lat=en

Sawt el-Amel
Sawt el-Amel aims to support low-income and unemployed Palestinian citizens of Israel in obtaining socio-economic justice and against discrimination in the labour market and welfare system, through collective and individual legal action, advocacy and public awareness campaigns and empowerment.
http://www.laborers-voice.org/English/index_english.htm

Sikkuy
Sikkuy develops and implements projects to advance civic equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel in government budgets, resource allocation, hiring policy, land usage, etc.
http://www.sikkuy.org.il/english/home.html

Social Development Committee of Haifa (SDC)
The SDC is an organization of the Haifa Arab community, working from grassroots to empower its local community and increase community participation in Haifa?s society, and to discriminatory policy that limits the full development of Haifa?s Arab population.
http://www.sdc-haifa.com/sdce/index.php

Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC)
The UPMRC is one of the largest health NGOs in Palestine. Its national health programs emphasize prevention, education, community participation, and the empowerment of people.
http://www.upmrc.org/

Women Against Violence (WAV)
WAV seeks to address the problem of domestic violence and the paucity of support services for abused Arab women in Israel.
http://www.wavo.org/newenglish/index.asp

Zochrot
The purpose of Zochrot ("remembering") is to involve the Jewish public in remembering and talking about the Nakba.
http://www.zochrot.org/index.php?lang=english

American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
The ADC is a grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities as members. The ADC is the largest Arab American organization of its kind.
http://www.adc.org/

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) | Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
The AFSC was founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims. The AFSC carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.
http://www.afsc.org/israel-palestine/default.htm

Amnesty International (AI) | Israel Office
AI is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
http://www.amnesty.org.il/index.html

Derechos Human Rights | Israel and the Occupied Territories
Derechos Human Rights works for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world through the socialization of human rights related information and analysis through the internet and other media, the promotion of prosecutions of human rights violators and the support of local human rights NGOs and activists.
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/mena/iot.html

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)
The EMHRN is a network of more than 60 human rights organizations from over 20 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Its overall objective is to contribute to the protection and promotion of the human rights principles embodied in the 1995 Barcelona Declaration and bilateral association agreements between the EU and its Mediterranean partners.
http://www.euromedrights.net/english/engelsk.html

Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) | Israel & OPTs
The FIDH is a federation of 116 Human Rights organizations in nearly 100 countries. It co-ordinates and supports their activities and provides them with a voice at the international level. It aims to obtain effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights abuse and the prosecution of those responsible.
http://www.fidh.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=246

Habitat International Coalition Housing and Land Rights Network
HIC is an independent, international, nonprofit movement of 400 organizations and individuals working in the area of human settlements from 80 countries in both North and South. HIC works to secure housing for communities and to improve habitat conditions.
http://www.hic-mena.org/home.htm

Human Rights First
Human Rights First works in the United States and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law.
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/

Human Rights Watch (HRW) | Israel / Palestinian Authority
HRW is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. HRW investigates and publishes on human rights abuses throughout the world, and provides up-to-the-minute information about conflicts while they are underway.
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=isrlpa

Institute for Palestine Studies
The Institute for Palestine Studies is an independent, non-profit Arab research organization, devoted to a better understanding of the question of Palestine. Books in the Institute series are published in the interest of public information.
http://www.palestine-studies.org/

Interights
Interights aims to enforce human rights through law, providing protection and redress, in particular regions and on issues of strategic focus; to strengthen human rights jurisprudence and mechanisms through the use of international and comparative law; and to empower legal partners across the developing and developed world and promote their effective use of law to protect human rights.
http://www.interights.org/

International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse.
http://www.ictj.org/en/index.html

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
The Commission was founded in Berlin in 1952 and its membership is composed of sixty eminent jurists who are representatives of the different legal systems of the world. The ICJ is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights.
http://www.icj.org/

International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
The International Service for Human Rights promotes the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional law and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights.
http://www.ishr.ch/index.htm

Lawyers Without Borders / Advocats Sans Frontieres (ASF)
ASF acts in the field of law and justice, working to promote, to strengthen and to protect civil, political, social and cultural human rights of individuals and peoples.
http://www.lawyerswithoutborders.org/

Middle East Institute (MEI)
The MEI is an important conduit of information between Middle Eastern nations and American Policy makers and organizations, which works to promote understanding between the peoples of the Middle East and America.
http://www.mideasti.org/

Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
MERIP maintains an informative websites on Middle East politics, culture and society. MERIP publishes a quarterly magazine, Middle East Report, and engages in sustained media outreach and public education.
http://www.merip.org/

Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
MRG works to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities.
http://www.minorityrights.org/

Palestine Center
The Palestine Center is an educational program of the Jerusalem Fund dedicated to analysis of the relationship between the United States and the Middle East, with particular emphasis on Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter/index.php

Penal Reform International (PRI)
PRI has members in five continents and in over 80 countries. It develops programmes to assisting both NGOs and individuals to establish projects in their own countries.
http://www.penalreform.org/english/frset_pre_en.htm

WITNESS
WITNESS empowers its human rights partners based around the world, who fight for the rights of indigenous people, for an end to systemic gender violence and the use of children as soldiers, and for environmental protection where human communities are at stake.
http://www.witness.org/

World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
The OMCT is the world's largest coalition of non-governmental organizations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence.
http://www.omct.org/

Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest court on constitutional matters, dealing exclusively with those cases that raise questions about the application or interpretation of the Constitution.
http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/home.htm

Supreme Court of Canada Database
The Supreme Court of Canada is Canada's final court of appeal, the last judicial resort for all litigants, whether individuals or governments. Its jurisdiction embraces both the civil law of the province of Quebec and the common law of the other provinces and territories.
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/index.html

Supreme Court of Israel
The Supreme Court, which stands at the head of the judicial pyramid, is the authorized interpreter of laws enacted by the Israeli parliament ? the Knesset.
http://elyon1.court.gov.il/eng/home/index.html

Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judicial branch of the US government.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html

Human Rights Internet (HRI)
HRI communicates with more than 5,000 organizations and individuals around the world working for the advancement of human rights. It is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.
http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx

Human Rights Network International (HRNi)
HRNi is a bilingual (English / French) database on human rights containing the most important international documents related to human rights: instruments, case law, articles, bibliographic references, Internet sites, reports and human rights actors.
http://www.hrni.org/EN/default.html

Interights? Commonwealth and International Human Rights Case Law Database
The database contains over 2,000 summaries of significant human rights decisions are available, from both domestic Commonwealth courts, and from tribunals applying international human rights law such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples? Rights, the European Court of Human Rights.
http://www.interights.org/searchdatabases.php?dir=databases

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ? IHL
A section of the ICRC?s website explaining international humanitarian law (IHL), its role in the protection of victims of war and its relationship with the work of the ICRC.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Humanitarian_law

International Court of Justice (ICJ)
The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It has a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by States, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized international organs and agencies.
http://www.icj-cij.org/

International Criminal Court (ICC)
The ICC is an independent, permanent court that tries persons accused of the most serious crimes of international concern, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
The ICRR was established in recognition of serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) committed in Rwanda for the purpose of contributing to the process of national reconciliation in Rwanda and to the maintenance of peace in the region. It was established for the prosecution of persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of IHL committed in Rwanda in 1994.
http://69.94.11.53/default.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
The ICTY was established in the face of the serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991. It works to bring to justice persons allegedly responsible for serious violations of IHL; to render justice to the victims; to deter further crimes; and to contribute to the restoration of peace by holding accountable persons responsible for serious violations of IHL.
http://www.un.org/icty/glance-e/index.htm

International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative, Harvard University
The IHL Research Initiative Portal offers unique access to academic and policy oriented research materials related to IHL. It provides access to one of the most comprehensive databases of online materials related to IHL.
http://www.ihlresearch.org/ihl/portalhome.php

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights International Case Law Library
The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) has several databases containing its collection of documentation on international case law.
http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/Dochome.nsf?Open

Office of the United National High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The OHCHR is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the UN and in international human rights laws and treaties. The mandate includes preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights and promoting international cooperation to protect human rights.
http://www.ohchr.org/english/

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
The Library houses a collection of more than 25,000 core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than 4,000 links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

United National Department of Political Affairs ? Question of Palestine
A website containing documentation and general information on the history of the Palestinian question and related issues.
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/qpal/index.html

United Nations Treaty Collection
A website containing every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the UN.
http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp