Know Your Rights

Legal Resources for Palestine Advocates in Europe

The ELSC develops and collects essential resources to help Palestine advocates navigate legal challenges and protect their rights.

ELSC Toolkits & Guides

Campaign Guide for an Ethical Procurement Policy

Aimed at activists, grassroots groups, trade unions, human rights organisations, and other civil society actors working to push local and regional authorities to adopt ethical procurement policies and ensure public funds do not support companies complicit in grave violations of international law.

Operational Guide for an Ethical Procurement Policy

The guide explains the legal framework for ethical procurement and offers practical steps to help public bodies avoid contracting with companies implicated in grave human rights violations.

The Defunding of Palestinian Organisations and Their Allies: a Tactic to Suppress Palestinian Voices and Shield Israel from Accountability – FAQ

The ELSC documents and challenges the growing wave of defunding and smear campaigns targeting Palestinian organisations. Learn how these attacks threaten civil society, and how we are working to defend Palestinian advocacy.

Know Your Rights: Toolkit for Protesters in the Netherlands

In response to growing protests for Palestine across the Netherlands, ELSC created a protest rights toolkit in English, Dutch, and Arabic. Learn your rights and stay protected.

Protesting at University in the UK: What Are My Rights?

A new ‘Know Your Rights’ guide for students and staff protesting at university, created with Liberty and Jude Lanchin, is now available. Learn about your rights, police powers, and more.

Know your Rights Italia: Toolkit per Manifestanti

Find key information on protest rights, police powers, and the use of placards and slogans in Italy. Access the ELSC protest rights toolkit in Italian here.

External Resources

REPRESSION OF PALESTINE SOLIDARITY IN GERMANY

The German State is actively enabling and supporting the genocide in Gaza even after the International Court of Justice issued an interim ruling alerting all states to a potential genocide case. Palestinians and the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany are facing an escalating campaign of political repression spanning law enforcement abuses, legal sanctions, and censorship.

Business and Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Guidance for Upholding Human Rights Report by Al-Haq and GLAN

Al-Haq and GLAN’s new report analyses the supply chains and administrative and legal framework for the activities of businesses of the occupying State and of foreign companies in these territories.

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Report by Palestine Legal

Palestine legal’s Report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States.

What Donors Should Know Following the Dutch Government’s Decision to Cut Funding for UAWC

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