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Killings on International Flotilla to Gaza

Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 3:55 pm | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) sent an urgent appeal today to Israel's Prime Minister urging him to allow demonstrations and to avoid exerting disproportionate force in dealing with the protests expected to follow the reported ... More >>

Military Takeover of the Flotilla on Its Way to Ga

Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 3:54 pm | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Association for Civil Rights in Israel admonishes the military takeover of the flotilla on its way to Gaza, is appalled by its outcomes; calls for an independent thorough investigation More >>

Noam Chomsky Banned From Israel

Monday, 17 May 2010, 3:53 pm | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) on Sunday strongly condemned the Interior Ministry's decision to deny entry to American linguistics professor Noam Chomsky. More >>

Israel: Targeting of Human Rights Organizations

Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 9:28 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Thirteen Israeli human rights organizations sent an urgent letter (attached) to the president, the Knesset speaker and the prime minister, protesting the increasing and systematic campaign against human rights organizations in Israel: "A democracy ... More >>

Israel: ACRI Condemns Unprecedented Smear Campaign

Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 9:25 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) condemns in the strongest terms the slanderous, ugly, and manipulative campaign targeting our longtime partner, the New Israel Fund (NIF), and its president, Professor Naomi Chazan, by the organization ... More >>

Israel is a Democracy - on Condition

Monday, 7 December 2009, 2:18 pm | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

JERUSALEM – December 3, 2009 – In its annual survey of the protection of human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories, ACRI reveals an alarming trend: the conditioning of rights. More >>

ACRI Responds to Crisis in Gaza

Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 11:53 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

JERUSALEM – January 6, 2008 – In light of Israel’s military operation in Gaza and the ongoing attacks by Hamas on Israel’s south, ACRI has been at the forefront of efforts by Israeli civil-society organizations to condemn the damage inflicted ... More >>

Stop Indiscriminate Killing Of Civilians In Gaza

Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:45 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

In the letter, Mr. Michael affirms Israel's right to defend its citizens and writes that the continuous firing of Kassam rockets at civilian populations in Sderot and the Gaza-border area constitutes a war crime - according to Intl Humanitarian Law. More >>

Darkness in Gaza Wont Bring Light to Sderot Crisis

Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:22 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

JERUSALEM – January 23, 2007 – With its decision to cut the Gaza Strip's fuel and food supply and close the crossings into the area last week (with the exception of a fuel and aid delivery yesterday and limited emergency shipments), the Israeli ... More >>

Israel Court To Deliberate On JNF Land Policy

Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:36 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Tenders for Jews Only Violate Rights of Arab Citizens: Israel's High Court of Justice will deliberate on ACRI's petition demanding immediate end to Israel Land Administration policy of marketing lands owned by the Jewish National Fund to Jews only. More >>

ACRI Condemns Expulsion of African Refugees

Monday, 20 August 2007, 12:24 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) strongly condemns the state's decision to deport African refugees and asylum seekers to Egypt without following the internationally recognized procedures for determining whether they are refugees. Some of the deportees ... More >>

Illegal Debt Collection Roadblocks in E. Jerusalem

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 2:24 pm | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) today submitted a petition to Israel's Supreme Court, demanding an immediate end to mobile police checkpoints set up to collect debts owed to the National Insurance Institute and the Tax Authority. More >>

Bedouin Villages In The Negev Vs. Electricity

Wednesday, 1 August 2007, 10:13 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Arab Bedouin Villages of the Negev, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the High Court of Justice (HCJ) to demand that health clinics operating in the unrecognized ... More >>

Deliberation on the petition submitted by ACRI

Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 11:22 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The IDF Archive is illegitimately denying access to important information, whose exposure in no way threatens the security of the State, discriminating between researchers; deliberately causing the perversion of historical research and the collective memory; ... More >>

Israeli Researchers Demand Access To IDF Archives

Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:11 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The IDF Archive is illegitimately denying access to important information, whose exposure in no way threatens the security of the State, discriminating between researchers; deliberately causing the perversion of historical research and the collective memory; ... More >>

State to register marriage of same-sex couples

Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 11:57 am | Association for Civil Rights in Israel

In a precedent setting ruling this morning, an expanded panel of 7 Supreme Court Justices ordered the state to register the marriage of same-sex couples who marry outside Israel More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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