| Date |
Report |
| 24.02.2010 |
LPHR hosts event that seeks to address the question: should the Attorney General be able to veto judicial arrest warrants against suspected war criminals? - view poster. |
| 14.12.2009 |
'Beyond the Goldstone Report' - LPHR hosts an event to discuss the next steps in light of the Goldstone Report - view poster. |
| 24.10.2009 |
LPHR publishes a case note on the recent ECHR case Willem v. France - view note here. |
| 21.09.2009 |
LPHR publishes 'Advice on the Labelling of goods from the Occupied Palestinian Territories' written by legal Counsel - view advice here. |
| 06.07.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter concerning a sixteen year-old boy - Wa'ad al-Hidmy - receiving a fifth administrative detention order despite no charges being brought against him |
| 01.07.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter concerning the Israeli Navy illegally intercepting and boarding the Free Gaza ship 'Spirit of Humanity' whilst it was in international waters and subsequently kidnapping 21 human rights workers |
| 24.06.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter concerning the administrative detention of Majeda Fidda and Siham Al Heh. |
| 17.06.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter concerning the withdrawal of the indictment against violent illegal settler, Ze'ev Braude. |
| 17.06.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter protesting MasterCard's relationship with illegal settlers', illegal settlement activity and house demolitions in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. |
| 09.06.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter regarding our strong protest against the proposed upgrade of relations between the EU and Israel - to be discussed at the forthcoming 9th EU-Israel Association Council Meeting - so to ensure that the EU adheres to its own obligations under international law, EU Law and the EU-Israel Association Agreement rather than be arguably complicit in the flagrant, systematic and grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by the state of Israel. |
| 02.06.2009 |
LPHR Public Event: Israeli Settlement Produce in the EU: MEP Candidate Hustings. View Flyer | View Synopsis of the Hustings | View The Guardian Article | View Legal Advice by Counsel |
| 02.06.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter to ask the Secretary General to speak out against the Spanish Parliament's proposed amendment to Spain's universal jurisdiction legislation which would significantly limit one of the only viable forms of judicial redress available to thousands of individuals throughout the world who are victims of the most serious international crimes. |
| 26.05.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter regarding the decision to cancel a lecture entitled 'Israel-Palestine, Roots of Conflict- Prospects for Peace' at the University of Vienna on 27 May 2009 by a leading critic of US and Israeli policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians, Dr Norman Finkelstein. |
| 18.05.2009 |
LPHR Public Event: 'Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?' - Are Israel's actions in the OPT consistent with colonialism and apartheid according to definitions provided by international law? Two of the contributors to a study conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, consider this question and the implications for international action and responsibility - View Flyer. |
| 16.05.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter concerning the conviction of Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi. |
| 11.04.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter regarding the second administrative detention order given to a 16 year-old, Hamdi Mohammed Shahedeh al-Tamari. |
| 24.03.2009 |
LPHR Public Event: Israeli Settlement Goods in International Law - View Flyer |
| 11.02.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter - The EU and OECD must not stay silent in the face of Israeli war crimes and human rights abuses. |
| 10.02.2009 |
Urgent Action Letter regarding Israel’s accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in light of the situation in Gaza. |
| 26.01.2009 |
If you are a lawyer interested in going to Gaza to provide legal advice, assistance or training, please fill out this form |
| 24.01.2009 |
Read the draft United Nations Security Council Resolution sent by Clare Short MP to all British MPs, Members of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians across Europe asking for every EU Government to push for this draft resolution to be tabled at United Nations Security Council meeting. |
| 23.01.2009 |
Download Gaza Action List for things that anyone can do to help. |
| 19.01.2009 |
LPHR Public Event - Emergency meeting "Israel in Gaza: Violations of International Law" - 18:30 at the College of Law - please view the flyer for more information. |
| 14.01.2009 |
Daniel Machover appears in a Newsnight special edition programme on the topic of War Crimes committed in Gaza by the Israeli army. View The Case for War Crimes and The Debate over War Crimes. |
| 13.01.2009 |
Salwa Salah and Sara Siureh are released from administrative detention. LPHR previously wrote an urgent action demanding their release from illegal detention (where they were held without access to a lawyer or even their respective families) - View Press Release |
| 11.01.2009 |
Letter published in The Sunday Times declaring that Israel's bombardment of Gaza is a war crime. |
| 09.01.2009 |
Letter published in The Guardian concerning the need to uphold the UN Charter in Gaza - signed by 21 lawyers. View Original Here |
| 08.01.2009 |
LPHR sends an Urgent Action letter urging the UK government to act decisively to ensure the immediate cessation of the grossly unlawful use of force by Israel which is causing a humanitarian catastrophe. |
| 07.01.2009 |
Read LPHR's Legal Questions and Answers Relating to the Conflict in the Gaza Strip. |
| 05.01.2009 |
Almost 300 people tell HM Government that the EU must hold Israel to its agreements - view letters & press release |
| 30.12.2008 |
Photographs from inside Gaza - Warning: some of the photos contain graphic and distressing images. |
| 27.12.2008 --> onwards |
LPHR responds to Israel's attacks on Gaza through a series of urgent actions and protests. |
| 23.12.2008 |
LPHR writes to HM Government regarding Israel's intention to begin a public relations campaign with the intention of widening a basis for international support of a military offensive on the Gaza Strip. |
| 19.11.2008 |
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) write a joint letter concerning the fifteen Palestinian fishermen and three international human rights observers arrested and detained by the Israeli military while fishing approximately seven miles off the coast of Deir Al Balah. Download Here |
| 19.11.2008 |
LPHR takes part in a Lobby of Parliament - 2-6pm - Westminster, W3. The Lobby of Parliament will call on the British government to implement international law and press for:
- an end to the blockade on Gaza
- Israel to end its occupation
- the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the OPT
- respect for Palestinian sovereignty
- the suspension of the EU-Israel trade agreement
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| 05.11.2008 |
LPHR Public Event: Defence for Children International - Palestine Section (DCI/PS) talk on Military Courts |
| 20.10.2008 |
LPHR Public Event: Talk by prominent human rights Solicitor, Phil Shiner, and members of Al Haq on the Saleh Hasan case in the Court of Appeal challenging the UK Government's policy on arms exports to Israel. |
| 20.09.2008 |
UK Government's decision to rent space in Tel Aviv from prominent settlement
builder, Lev Levievis
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| 16.09.2008 |
LPHR hosted Raja Shehadeh (writer, lawyer, founder of Al-Haq and author of Orwell Prize winning 'Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape') who gave a talk entitled "Disappearing Territory: Israel's Occupation and Palestinian Land".
Download the Poster | View Event Photographs | Buy Raja Shehadeh's award winning book |
| 12-13.09.2008 |
LPHR members attended a conference in Brussels concerning the monitoring of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (“OPT”) and legal remedies that might be taken up in European countries. The conference was organised by two highly respected European human rights NGOs: Diakonia (based in Sweden) and Avocats Sans Frontiers (based in Belgium) -- View Conference Photographs. |
| 19.08.2008 |
LPHR sends letters of concern to Prime Minister Olmert, President Peres and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Israel) regarding
the detention of 17-year-old Obaidah Asyda. For more information, please visit the Defence for Children International (Palestine)'s Website (DCI/PS)
by clicking here. |
