UN Human Rights Committee to Review Israel on 20 October 2014; Adalah and partners submit reports

[Jefferson23]

24/09/2014

This month, Adalah submitted NGO reports to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) on the human rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel in general, and together with the Negev Co-Existence Forum (NCF), on the human rights of Arab Bedouin citizens living in the Naqab/Negev.

In Geneva on Monday 20 October 2014, the Committee will review Israel’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Israel ratified in 1991. Representatives of Adalah, together with other partner human rights organizations, will attend the session. The Committee last reviewed Israel four years ago in 2010, and issued 20 principal subjects of concern and concluding observations for Israel to improve its human rights record.


Adalah’s reports, which respond to the Committee’s questions and Israel’s replies, show that Israel is violating numerous articles of the ICCPR through its discriminatory laws and policies that target the rights of its Palestinian minority citizens.

Adalah’s report on Palestinian citizens highlighted that:

Due to the absence of a right to equality in Israeli law, the Knesset repeatedly enacts legislation that discriminates against Palestinian citizens, and the Israeli Supreme Court upholds many of these laws (e.g., the Nakba Law, the Admissions’ Committee Law)

http://www.adalah.org/eng/Articles/2331/UN-Human-Rights-Committee-to-Review-Israel-on-20-and

[King_David]

1. The UNHRC , with it's repugnant membership

With very few exceptions ,has the moral authority to review ANY state ?

[Jefferson23]

2. If you insist on looking at it that way,they and Israel's government are perfect for each other.

[King_David]

3. They in no position to judge Israel though

Absolutely not for anything at all.

[2naSalit]

4. It's about time.

[King_David]

5. 'About time' the UNHRC tackles the Israel problem ??

LOL

Your kidding? Right?

As of 2014, Israel had been condemned in 50 resolutions by the Council since its creation in 2006—the Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The 50 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance).[50] By April 2007, the Council had passed eleven resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[51] Toward Sudan, a country with human rights abuses as documented by the Council's working groups, it has expressed "deep concern".[51]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council