by Hannah Cohen | Dec 22, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
A new report by NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, as well as two organizations funded by the global NIF network, Breaking the Silence and Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights, exposes the harsh reality for Palestinian families living under...
by nifc-phil-mike | Nov 13, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
As all eyes were focused on the American election, last Tuesday, Israel took the step of demolishing the West Bank community of Khirbet Humsa, in the Jordan Valley, in what the U.N. officials described an act of “forced displacement” – and the largest in a decade....
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 29, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
NIFC flagship project partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has submitted two petitions to the Jerusalem Court of Administrative Affairs on the failure of the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to reveal their use of facial...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 29, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
A report by six organizations funded by the NIF global network has found that the country’s asylum seekers have been left destitute by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and has called on the government to intervene to prevent a humanitarian...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 15, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
NIFC flagship partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) called on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to cancel a new emergency COVID-19 regulation which bans Israelis from demonstrating more than one kilometre from their homes. ACRI insisted that the...
by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 20, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Social and Economic Justice
Earlier this month, Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together), an organization funded by the NIF global network, made national headlines with a chilling and creative protest using 1,019 empty chairs in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Each chair had the name of an Israeli who died...
