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 Human Rights - Israeli
The Arab Association for Human Rights
HRA works for the promotion and protection of political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, and for the domestic implementation of international human rights principles.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
ACRI works – through education, lobbying, legal action and the like – for the protection of human and civil rights of any individual or group in Israel and in the territories under its control.
The Association of Forty
The Association works to promote the rights of long-existing Arab villages in Israel that are unrecognised, and largely ignored and denied basic services, by the government.
Amnesty International - Israel section
Amnesty International Israel Section is part of a worldwide organization that works to prevent grave violations of human rights by governments. The Israel Section does not act on cases of human rights violations within Israel, the Palestinian Authority or other neighboring countries.
Bizchut - The Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities
Bizchut seeks to ensure full integration into society and participation in all areas of life to people with disabilities, and to increase public awareness of their rights and needs.
Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights
Bimkom works to secure the right of communities and minorities in Israel to equality and social justice in matters of spatial planning and development as well as the allocation of land resources.
B'TSELEM
B'Tselem, the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, documents and publicizes cases of human rights violation in the Occupied Territories, in order to undermine the denial of these by the Israeli public and policymakers, and to help create a human rights culture in Israel.
Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement
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.
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
ICAHD is a non-violent direct-action group opposing Israeli demolition of houses, land expropriation, settlement expansion, fruit-tree uprooting, and policies of "closure" and "separation" in the Occupied Territories.
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI)
PACTI monitors the use of torture during interrogation in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, provides legal assistance to victims of torture and ill-treatment, and serves as an information center on torture in Israel and the PA.
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights
Yesh Din works - through information dissemination, lobbying and legal action - for the protection of Palestinians' human rights in the Occupied Territories, and focuses on law enforcement regarding settler violence in the West Bank.
Machsom Watch
Machsom Watch monitors the behavior of soldiers and police towards Palestinians crossing Israeli checkpoints. It conducts daily surveillances, challenges wrongdoings and provides reports on significant events.
Mossawa - The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel
Mossawa works to promote equality for Arab\Palestinians within the borders of Israel, while preserving their national and cultural uniqueness.
Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)
WOFPP is a group of women united in their opposition to Israeli occupation. The group's aim is to support women political prisoners and to promote the release of all political prisoners who have struggled or are accused of having struggled against the Israeli occupation. The organization was established in 1988 and its work consists in monitoring the conditions of the women political prisoners and resisting policies of suppression that violate their rights
Sikkuy
Sikkuy, a Jewish-Arab advocacy organization, is dedicated to advancing civic equality between Palestinian-Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel in government budgets, resource allocation, hiring policy, land usage and the like.
Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Adalah is a non-profit legal center mainly intended to protect the rights of the Arab minority in Israel, in areas such as land rights, civil and political rights, cultural and religious rights, economic rights, women’s rights and prisoners’ rights.
Ir Amim
Ir Amim is an organization founded in order to actively engage in those issues impacting on Israeli-Palestinian relations in Jerusalem and on the political future of the city. Ir Amim seeks to render Jerusalem a more viable and equitable city, while generating and promoting a more politically sustainable future.
Kav La'Oved
Kav LaOved is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily migrant workers, Palestinians, personnel company employees, and new immigrants.
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
PHR-Israel, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to promoting and protecting the right to health care in Israel and in the Occupied Territories. Its activities include direct intervention and the provision of medical aid to any individual deprived of it – including migrant workers, residents of the Occupied Territories, prisoners and detainees – as well as advocacy, legal action, public outreach, community education and campaigning.
The Israel Women’s Network (IWN)
IWN works to improve the status of women in Israel, regardless of political, religious or ethnic belonging. It seeks to change the social context and norms that prevent women from assuming their rightful place as equal partners in the Israeli society.
Rabbis for Human Rights
RHR is concerned with giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights, and supports civil disobedience in face of severe human rights violations under the guise of security.

 Human Rights - Palestinian
AdDameer
Addameer supports Palestinian prisoners, advocates the rights of political prisoners and works for ending torture, through monitoring, legal action and solidarity campaigns.
Defence for Children International - Palestine Section
DCI/PS is dedicated to promoting the rights of children in the Occupied Territories. It monitors and documents violations, and provides free legal support and information in this regard.
The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees - UPMRC
UPMRC, a non-profit community-based Palestinian health organization, offers medical services in community and health centers as well as mobile clinics throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Al-Haq
Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), promotes the protection of human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Territories, and monitors and documents human rights violations by Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
The Mandela Institute for Human Rights
Mandela Institute, a non-profit organization, offers material, legal, psychological, nutritional, medical and educational assistance to prisoners and ex-prisoners and their families, and advocates their cause before the public and the international community.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Al-Mezan aims to protect human rights – especially economic, cultural and social ones – in the Occupied Territories, and to encourage the adoption of Palestinian laws in harmony with international standards.
Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling - WCLAC
WCLAC works to promote the legal and social status of Palestinian women. It provides support and guidance to women whose human rights and rights under the law have been violated.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR
PCHR is an independent legal body dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Territories through investigation and documentation as well as through provision of legal aid and counseling.
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights - PICCR
PICCR was established in 1993 to serve as a human rights ombudsman. It monitors and documents maladministration and abuse of power leading to human rights violations on the part of Palestinian authorities as well as public and semi-public institutions.
The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group - PHRMG
PHRMG monitors and documents human rights violations both by Israel and by the Palestinian Authority.

 Human Rights - International
Amnesty International - AI
Amnesty International monitors and documents human rights violations worldwide – especially cases of death penalty, torture, and ill-treatment of conscientious objectors – by governments and other bodies.
Redress - Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
REDRESS is a human rights organisation that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. REDRESS works with survivors to help restore their dignity and to make torturers accountable.
Association for the Prevention of Torture - APT
APT works worldwide for the prevention of torture and ill-treatment. It promotes national implementation of international standards that prohibit torture, and monitors and documents deviations.
Center for Economic and Social Rights - CESR
CESR works to promote social justice and human rights through investigation and documentation of violations, legal advocacy towards policy change, linking activists across borders, and public education.
Derechos Human Rights
Derchos deals with the socialization of human rights related information and its 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.
Diakonia
Diakonia is an international development organization composed of a global network of people, organisations and churches working towards more people living a life in dignity. Diakonia's goal is a democratic world in which living standards for the most vulnerable people are improved, and human rights and equality are respected.
Human Rights Education Associates - HREA
HREA, an international organization, supports human rights learning through the training of activists and professionals, the development of educational materials and programming, organizational development, and networking with human rights education resources and professionals.
Human Rights First - Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
LCHR supports human rights activists worldwide, protects refugees in flight from persecution and repression, creates safeguards for workers’ rights, and helps build an international system of justice.
Human Rights Watch - HRW
HRW investigates, documents and exposes human rights violations worldwide, challenging governments to end abusive practices and bring offenders to justice.
The International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC
ICRC’s is mainly concerned with securing basic principles regarding the conduct of warfare and the behavior of combatants. It also carries out practical activities to assist people in need, working closely with Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide.
International Federation of Human Rights - FIDH
FIDH promotes the implementation of the rights defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments protecting human rights. It provides its members, human rights organizations from various countries, with a network of expertise, as well as a guide to the procedures of international organizations.
Madre
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide. It provides resources and training to enable sister organizations to play leadership roles in their communities.
Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF
MSF is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger, regardless of race, religion, politics and sex.
Physicians for Human Rights - PHR
PHR investigates and exposes violations of human rights worldwide, and works to stop them through education of medical, public health and nursing students.
UAT- United Against Torture
The United Against Torture (UAT) Coalition is designed to contribute to the progressive and substantial eradication of torture and ill-treatment in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
United Nations Human Rights
The site contains information on UN human rights initiatives, including those of the Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as country specific reports relating to human rights treaties.
Witness
Witness promotes the exposure of human rights violations through worldwide media by making video and technology tools available to human rights activists, in order to mobilize public concern and political debate about human rights issues.
World Organization Against Torture - OMCT
OMCT is an international coalition of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and other forms of inhuman treatment. Its SOS Torture network consists of hundreds of non-governmental organizations.

 Israeli Law
Mishpat.net
Legal matters: databases, lawyers, forums, libraries, books in print, links to sites, discussions, case law, etc
The Knesset - Israel's parliament
Text of basic laws and other selected laws, introduction to legislation procedures, e-mail addresses of Knesset members, documents relating to the peace process, etc
The Supreme Court
Case law of the Supreme Court, presentation of the Court, and introduction to the legal system of Israel
The Israel Bar
Organs, activities, etc; selected articles from its various publications
The Minerva Center for Human Rights
The Center is dedicated to promoting the academic study of human rights issues by initiating research and organizing conferences, lectures and educational activities. The website contains Israeli, foreign and international case law and legislation, reports by various organizations, and more.
Concord Research Center for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law
The Center, part of the College of Management - Academic Studies, is designed to organize and conduct research and engage in a variety of related academic activities on the interplay between international and Israeli standards.
Mishpatim
The "Mishpatim" Law Review, published by the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: information on past articles, and abstracts of future ones
The Ministry of Justice
Information on Israel Ministry of Justice and its various divisions; links to Israeli and worldwide sites containing case laws, legislation, news on legal matters
Tel Aviv University Clinical Legal Education Programs
The clinical legal education programs offer law students, lawyers and faculty an opportunity to combine research, teaching, advocacy and provision of legal services to low income persons and members of other disempowered groups.

 International Law
Activities of the European Union – Justice and Home Affairs
The European Union: legal organs, proceedings and case law; related treaties
EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
International law: information and links to relevant sites in matters such as organizations, human rights, criminal law, use of force, treaties
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: the related European convention, ratifying states, protocols of meetings, current reports on enforcement of the convention, etc
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights: case law, current cases, guidance to applicants, relevant legislation, press items, etc
Human Rights Law Centre – The University of Nottingham
Includes articles from the Nottingham Human Rights Student Review
HRNI - Human Rights Network
Conventions and other official documents on human rights; articles; links to sites with case law in this regard
The Human Rights Program – Harvard Law School
Includes articles from the Harvard Human Rights Journal
Inter American Court of Human Rights