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| ==Funding== | ==Funding== | ||
| According to ] HaMoked budget in 2000-2001 equalled to $2,837,000. Major funders include: European Commission, Ford Foundation, International Commission of Jurists, New Israel Fund, British, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish Embassies in Tel Aviv, Dutch Foreign Ministry, and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.<ref> Last accessed: 18 August 2009.</ref> | According to ] HaMoked budget in 2000-2001 equalled to $2,837,000. Major funders include: European Commission, Ford Foundation, International Commission of Jurists, New Israel Fund, British, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish Embassies in Tel Aviv, Dutch Foreign Ministry, and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.<ref> Last accessed: 18 August 2009.</ref> | ||
| == Criticizm == | |||
| ] have criticized Hamoked that it doesn't promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians by publishing political statements.<ref>{{cite book | title=Intercultural Dialogue and Citizenship: Translating Values Into Actions : a Common Project for Europeans and Their Partners | publisher=Marsilio | author=Gerald M. Steinberg | authorlink=CIVIL SOCIETY, INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM: RETHINKING EMP POLICIES | year=2007 | isbn=88-317-9270}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *] | *] | ||
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| Founded | 1988 |
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| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | "the enforcement of the standards and values of international human rights and humanitarian law" |
| Area served | Israel and the Palestinian territories |
| Key people | Lotte Salzberger |
| Employees | "39 Jewish and Palestinian workers" |
| Website | http://www.HaMoked.org.il/links_en.asp |
HaMoked (Hebrew:המוקד, Center for the Defence of the Individual) an Israel based human rights organization founded by Dr. Lotte Salzberger with the stated aim of assisting "Palestinians subjected to the Israeli occupation which causes severe and ongoing violation of their rights." HaMoked states that it works for the enforcement of the standards and values of international human rights and humanitarian law.
Objectives
HaMoked's aims, as registered with Israel's Registrar of Non-profit Organizations, are to: "Provide assistance to persons who have fallen victim to acts of violence, abuse or deprivation of basic rights by governmental authorities (including local government), especially those needing assistance in conveying their complaints to these authorities, and also to protect basic rights in any other manner, including application to legal instances and among them - petitions to the Supreme Court of Israel in its capacity as High Court of Justice, whether in the name of an individual who claims that his basic right was harmed and whether as a "friend of the court."
Activities
As Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem turned to HaMoked with additional issues, the organization expanded its activities to handle human rights violations in other spheres as well. These include Detainee Rights; Residency Rights and Family Unification; Freedom of Movement; Violence by security forces and settlers toward Palestinians; and Punitive House Demolition.
HaMoked also operates an Emergency Human Rights Hotline in order to attempt to offer real time solutions by working vis-a-vis relevant authorities in the field. Emergency situations include those arising from restrictions on movement within the territories; from violence; from delays in the evacuation of the injured, the sick, and women in labor; and from the blockage of humanitarian aid such as food, medicine and water.
HaMoked provide case commentaries in the "Court Watch" section of their website where they present "judicial critiques of judgment rendered by the HCJ and other Courts, in light of human rights standards."
In March 2010, HaMoked was one of ten human rights organizations that co-signed a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The letter demanded a delay to the implementation of military orders, with prevention of infiltration and security provisions that, according to the NGO, authorized the Israeli army to deport Palestinian residents from the West Bank if they do not have an Israeli permit. An Israeli permit is a new requirement for the majority of Palestinians in the West Bank. Military Order No. 1650 is an amendment to a 1969 military law intended to deal with infiltration from neighboring Arab countries. According to the NGO, a Palestinian without a permit will be classified as an "infiltrator". Israeli security sources have stated that the new edict is designed to allow for judicial oversight of the expulsion of an individual under the order.
In 2011, following a request submitted by HaMoked under Israel's Freedom of Information Law, the legal advisor for the Judea and Samaria Justice Ministry's office provided a document that described a covert procedure that Israel used to cancel the residency status of 140,000 Palestinian residents of the West Bank who traveled abroad such as students who studied at foreign universities and people who migrated internationally for work. The procedure was used from the 1967 occupation of the West Bank until the Oslo Accords were signed in 1994. Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories between 1991 and 1995, Daniel Rothschild, said he was not aware of the procedure and that "one may infer that neither were residents of the occupied territories". HaMoked said that "mass withdrawal of residency rights from tens of thousands of West Bank residents, tantamount to permanent exile from their homeland, remains an illegitimate demographic policy and a grave violation of international law." According to organization, the number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who lost their residency rights is unknown.
Funding
According to NGO Monitor HaMoked budget in 2000-2001 equalled to $2,837,000. Major funders include: European Commission, Ford Foundation, International Commission of Jurists, New Israel Fund, British, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish Embassies in Tel Aviv, Dutch Foreign Ministry, and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Criticizm
Gerald M. Steinberg have criticized Hamoked that it doesn't promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians by publishing political statements.
See also
References
- ^ "About HaMoked". HaMoked. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- "Court Watch: Israeli Case-Law under Scrutiny". Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ "Israel's West Bank deportation order comes into force amid controversy". Xinhua News Agency. 2010-04-14. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ Hass, Amira (2010-04-15). "The right to deport". Haaretz. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ Akiva Eldar (11 May 2011). "Israel admits it covertly canceled residency status of 140,000 Palestinians". Haaretz.
- NGO Monitor. Who is funding? HaMoked - Center for the Defense of the Individual. Last accessed: 18 August 2009.
- Gerald M. Steinberg (2007). Intercultural Dialogue and Citizenship: Translating Values Into Actions : a Common Project for Europeans and Their Partners. Marsilio. ISBN 88-317-9270.
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