Human Rights Watch
Context:
Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population.
- It pointed to measures, including movement restrictions, land confiscation, forcible population transfer, denial of residency rights and suspension of civil rights.
- The report finds that the Israeli government is the “single authority” with control “over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea”.
About:
- Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization,
- Headquartered in New York City.
- Founded in 1978
- It conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
- The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners.
- Human Rights Watch in 1997 shared in the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions.
- The organization’s annual expenses totaled $50.6 million in 2011, $69.2 million in 2014, and $75.5 million in 2017.
News Highlights:
- Human Rights Watch said that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population.
- Currently under investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes, Israel blasted HRW’s accusations as “preposterous and false”, accusing it of having “a long-standing anti-Israeli agenda”.
- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh welcomed the “remarkable” HRW report, which finds that the Israeli government is the “single authority” with control “over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea”.
- The rights group pointed to measures, including movement restrictions, land confiscation, forcible population transfer, denial of residency rights and suspension of civil rights.
Refer Human Rights Watch Reports and Articles
Source: The Hindu