Every year on 10 December nations across the globe celebrate Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which...
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Al Mezan issues a new report: ‘The Gaza Bantustan—Israeli Apartheid in the Gaza Strip’ 29 November marks the International Day of...
25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. To mark this day, since 2008, the United Nations has launched a 16-day campaign to combat violence and...
This fact sheet serves as an executive summary of a report by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan) on the obstacles to children’s access to education in a number of primary and preparatory...
As a group of regional and international organizations, we express our full solidarity with Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders as Israel continues to escalate its attacks to shut...
The Israeli authorities continue to severely restrict the entry of goods and humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip under the government’s comprehensive closure policy, despite the visible...
Last week: According to Al Mezan’s field reporting, on Wednesday evening, 25 August 2021, hundreds of Palestinians resumed protests near the perimeter fence in Khan Younis to call for an end to the...
On Thursday morning, 22 July 2021, a house explosion at Zawiya market, Gaza City, killed Atta Ahmed Saqallah, 68, and injured 14 people, one of them critically. Among the injured were also six...
Background Prior to the start of the 11-day escalation in hostilities in May 2021, over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza were already under the Israeli government’s land, sea, and air blockade—a...
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expresses its concern over the increasing cases of workplace violence against employees in the healthcare and municipal services reported throughout the Gaza Strip...