Annual Report - Palestinian Center for Human Rights

• Staff cooperated closely with the UN agencies, the EU and the ICRC
regarding safety and security of internationals inside the Gaza Strip.
Outcome:
• PCHR, al Haq and FIDH produced written interventions to the UNHRC in
2005.
• FIDH will send a mission of enquiry to Gaza for disengagement.
• FIDH wrote a private letter to Israeli PM Sharon about passage of HRDs
through Rafah crossing, based on information jointly supplied by PCHR
and Al Dameer.
• FIDH/AI/HRW all released numerous statements regarding civil
compensation law.
• CA published a piece by staff in the International Unit during the unilateral
Israeli redeployment.
• Thanks to cooperation with NOVIB Oxfam, a piece about Raji Sourani
written by staff in the International Unit and Novib was published in their
magazine People Making Change.
• Front Line wrote urgent actions and published one newspaper
advertisement in the Irish Times about HRDs in the OPT.
• Front Line Palestine: Threats, Killings and Other forms of Intimidation of
Human Rights Defenders – a joint report with PCHR - at printers at time of
writing this report.
• Dutch government given information by NOVIB which came from PCHR.
Activity: Development of Emergency Response for large-scale HR violations
• International Unit developed PCHR’s disengagement strategy and
circulated to key advocacy partners to assist with their work.
Outcome:
• PCHR is well prepared for long and short-term possibilities of
disengagement plan in respect of advocacy and information sharing.
8. Research and Publications
Activity: Reports, Position Papers and misc. publications
• Position Paper: Human Rights and the Lessons of Peace Plans from
Geneva Accords to Sharon’s ‘Disengagement’ Plan – presented at Vienna
Conference and published by PCHR
• Position Paper: Securing the Wall from International Law: An Initial
Response to the Israeli State Attorney.
• Children’s Rights in Intifada: Series Study drawn up and presented to UN
Expert on Violence Against Children, during his visit to Gaza Strip.
Entitled Confirm the Kill: IOF Killings of Children in the al Aqsa Intifada.
• Produced 3 Fact Sheets on the Gaza ‘Disengagement’ Plan.
• Implementation not Impunity: International Law Still not Being
Implemented in the OPT – Memorandum to the HCPs One Year After the
ICJ AO. (published July 9 th 2005)
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