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The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Palestinian territories Professor Richard Falk has yesterday described the decision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to defer the vote on...
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An independent United Nations expert today urged Israel to prevent further rights violations in East Jerusalem, warning that population transfers in or from occupied territory are war crimes under...
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The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...
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The UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Professor Richard Falk, has called on the Israeli authorities to release the Palestinian detainee, Khader Adnan, who...
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, has called for an investigation into the "apparently deliberate" attacks on civilian targets during the...
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Dr Nabil Al Arabi, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, confirmed that upgrading the status of Palestine in the United Nations will prove the historical rights of the...
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United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk yesterday, 13 February, called for the immediate release of three Palestinian detainees held without charges by Israel. Mr. Falk expressed deep concern for...
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The UN's Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has suggested that the General Assembly should "seek an opinion" from the International Court of Justice about...
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UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has claimed that "Israel is slouching towards nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust" in his comments about the abuse of human rights in the...
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GENEVA (31 May 2010) – The UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, urged Monday the international community to bring to justice those responsible for the...
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The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) called on Monday for an investigation into Israel's maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and added that the viability of life in Gaza is at...
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America's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has called for the resignation of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,...
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John Hurson in Ireland has been keenly conscious of the affinities between the historic Irish hunger strike of 1981 and the ongoing Palestinian hunger strikes. He has travelled to...
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Surely the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone. He had already recast himself as the self-appointed guardian of Israel's world...
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Palestinians tortured and isolated Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation and denial of access to appropriate health care; such...
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The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after...
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On 30 March, Palestinians around the world will commemorate Land Day. It marks a day in 1976, when Israeli security forces shot dead six Palestinians and injured around 100...