Al-Haq : : a global history of the first Palestinian human rights organization / / Lynn Welchman.
"Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of their time and to which can be traced the origi...
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| Superior document: | New directions in Palestinian studies ; 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New directions in Palestinian studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Writing al-Haq
- Scholarship : al-Haq and human rights
- Framing the work
- Al-Haq contributions
- The occupied territories, Israel and the PLO
- West Bank legal profession
- Camp David
- Human rights organisations
- International law
- Human rights in the region
- Raja Shehadeh
- Jonathan Kuttab
- Charles Shammas
- LSM Steering Committee
- Who are we? 1983
- The politics of LSM
- Participation, voluntarism and Wednesday evening meetings
- The role of a human rights organisation under occupation
- Members and staffers
- Into the intifada
- Twenty years of occupation-: a time to reflect
- Interventions
- Allies
- The ICRC
- The Enforcement Project
- Fieldwork methodology
- The risks of fieldwork
- Intifada expansion
- From affidavit to publication and campaign
- Affidavits and the Palestinian audience
- Fieldwork and the database
- Publishing on prisons
- Structural work
- Legal advice and know your rights
- Invoking the law.