Annual Report - Palestinian Center for Human Rights

- PLC formulation of mechanisms to ensure that the executive authority
approves laws that have been suspended up to now and to ensure that the
executive does not ignore laws passed by the Council.
- PLC formulation of new and modern Palestinian laws, including a review of
unapproved legislation drafted before the establishment of the PLC in 1996,
such as the Publications Law for the year 1995.
- PLC monitoring of the laws approved by the executive authority, to ensure
their correct implementation and to guarantee the fulfillment of their intended
aims.
- PLC follow-up on the findings of commissions of inquiry formed by the
Council itself. Efforts by PLC to make the executive adhere to all the findings
of investigations and to publish these findings for purposes of informing the
public.
- Enhance transparency of the Council’s work and facilitate access to
information about the Council, through:
o Live broadcast of all sessions.
o Development of the PLC's web site and updating of it regularly.
o Provision of the minutes of PLC sessions to the public.
- Take steps to put an end to dual legislative and executive (except Cabinet
Minister positions) responsibilities for members, since a number of PLC
members also head PNA bodies.
- Ensure that PLC members attend sessions and are not absent without valid
reason. In addition, end the practice of leaving sessions shortly after they have
convened. These practices undermine the sessions’ content and purpose.
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