{"id":2314,"date":"2022-10-18T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.elsc.support\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:58:43","slug":"65-organisations-send-a-letter-to-the-new-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-urging-for-concrete-measures-to-ensure-justice-and-accountability-for-the-palestinian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/ar\/65-organisations-send-a-letter-to-the-new-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-urging-for-concrete-measures-to-ensure-justice-and-accountability-for-the-palestinian-people\/","title":{"rendered":"65 Organisations Send a Letter to the New High Commissioner for Human Rights, Urging for Concrete Measures to Ensure Justice and Accountability for the Palestinian People"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 17 October 2022, 65 Palestinian, regional and international organisations sent a joint letter to the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker T\u00fcrk, welcoming him in his new position and highlighting some of the recent alarming Israeli policies and practices imposed against Palestinians. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, the letter underscored Israel\u2019s 15-year-old closure and blockade of the Gaza Strip; Israel\u2019s escalation in its invasive military incursions into Palestinian cities in recent months; and its closure as acts of collective punishment of Shu\u2019fat Refugee Camp and \u2018Anata; as well as an aggravation in the Israeli Occupying Forces\u2019 (IOF) use of its \u2018shoot-to-kill\u2019 policy. Furthermore, the letter underlined the increase of Israel\u2019s campaign of mass arbitrary arrests and detentions, including in its arbitrary, coercive, and punitive administrative detention policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting how the Palestinian people have been denied their right to self-determination for decades, the joint letter emphasised that the human rights situation in Palestine should be at the top of the High Commissioner\u2019s agenda, including by prioritising the annual updating the UN Database on Settlement Business Activities, as mandated. The letter noted with concern, the repeated and unexplained delays regarding the update of the Database, which are unprecedented in the way the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has handled prior mandates, and are due to reported political pressure and interference exerted<\/a> on the OHCHR. To this end, the letter highlighted Israel\u2019s systematic efforts in silencing human rights defenders, voicing their opposition to Israel\u2019s unlawful policies and practices and pushing for international justice and accountability, including by arbitrarily outlawing<\/a> six prominent Palestinian civil society organisations. That being said, the organisations expressed their trust that such pressure will not derail the OHCHR from its commitment to human rights, justice, and accountability, and urged the new High Commissioner and his Office to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Recognise and acknowledge the root causes of the prolonged denial of Palestinian rights, embedded in Israel\u2019s settler-colonialism and apartheid;<\/li>
  2. Prioritise the annual updating of the UN Database, as mandated under HRC Resolution 31\/36 and ensure that appropriate resources are allocated so as to allow for continued development of the Database;<\/li>
  3. Continue working with civil society organisations and human rights defenders in full transparency for the completion and continuous updating of the Database;<\/li>
  4. Address Israel\u2019s institutionalised and systematic targeting of the Palestinian people, including the 15-year-long closure on the Gaza Strip, and Israel\u2019s mass and arbitrary \u2018shoot-to-kill\u2019 and administrative detention policies; and<\/li>
  5. Investigate and report, by means of country visits or otherwise, attacks against human rights defenders working on issues related to Palestine and facing intimidation or arbitrary legislative or administrative restrictions, and ensure their protection.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Read the full letter here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Picture: CC-by-2.0 Justin McIntosh<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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