UN urges quickly holding Palestinian elections, calls on Israel to allow the participation of the people of East Jerusalem 

26/07/2021

News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 26 July 2021 UN experts called on the Palestinian Authority and Israel, the occupying power, […]

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Human Rights Council appoints members of the Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

25/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 July 2021 The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji), […]

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UN experts stress the need to stop attacks against critics and demonstrators in Ramallah and hold those responsible to account

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN human rights experts have expressed serious concerns about a number of attacks by […]

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UN Special Rapporteur: ‘Israeli settlements are a war crime’

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian […]

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UN condemns Israel’s repeated demolition of Palestinian Bedouin property

13/07/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 13 July 2021    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in […]

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UN condemnation of the right-wing extremist attacks against Palestinians in Israel

02/06/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 2 June 2021  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Affairs, Fernand de Varennes, condemned […]

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UN Child Rights Committee urges Israel, Palestine and the international community to provide immediate support to children  

30/05/2021

News briefing:    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva: May 30, 2021 The Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations […]

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UN Human Rights Council forms a commission to investigate the violations committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

30/05/2021

News briefing   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: 30 May 2021 The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution establishing an international commission […]

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UN welcomes Gaza-Israel ceasefire amid calls for the ICC to investigate the violations

21/05/2021

News briefing:   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: May 21, 2021 UN experts called on all parties to the conflict in Gaza and […]

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Bachelet calls for calm in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel and for all parties to abide by international law  

18/05/2021

News briefing:   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva: May 15, 2021     The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for strict […]

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Bachelet calls for calm in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel and for all parties to abide by international law

15/05/2021

News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 15, 2021 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for […]

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UN High Commissioner Spokesman: ‘Israel must allow and guarantee the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and assembly’

11/05/2021

News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: May 11, 2021  The spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Robert Colville, said […]

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UN experts denounce Israel’s “brutal” handling of the protests in Jerusalem, urge an end to the evictions

11/05/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 11, 2021 United Nations human rights experts have expressed their grave concern about Israel’s […]

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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on Israel to halt forced evictions of Palestinians from Jerusalem

09/05/2021

News briefing:    Translated and edited by: The Committee for Justice    Geneva: May 9, 2021    The spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, […]

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