by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
The Israel Police Investigations Department in the Ministry of Justice is tasked with examining police violence, primarily committed against minorities. Yet a study by NIFC flagship project partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has found that only...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
NIFC project partner Breaking the Silence recently published a landmark report on Israel’s Civil Administration, known more formally as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, or COGAT. Breaking the Silence has documented the experiences of IDF...
by Zoe Bernard | Aug 15, 2022 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip over the past 15 years has had disastrous effects on the lives and health of its Palestinian residents, NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) reports. In Gaza, nearly every single aspect of health care...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 21, 2022 | Religious Freedom
The pride parade in the Negev town of Mitzpe Ramon went ahead in June as planned after Israel Police withdrew its decision to reroute the event to the city’s outskirts. Israel Police backed down on its instruction to reroute the parade following a petition to the...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 20, 2022 | Gender Equality, Religious Freedom
The Jerusalem Magistrate Court has ordered Israel Railways and Danel, the company that provides guards for trains, to pay Israeli citizen Maya Melitz NIS 16,000 ($4,600) as compensation for being forced to move to another car because she is a woman. Melitz was...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 5, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
7,000 people marched in Jerusalem’s 20th Pride March in June in a celebration of LGBTQ rights in the city. Despite threats of violence, the march ended peacefully amid tight security. Participants marched from Liberty Bell Park to Independence Park in downtown...
