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<font size="1"><a href="http://www.addameer.org/news/palestinian-regional-and-international-human-rights-organisations-submit-joint-report">http://www.addameer.org/news/palestinian-regional-and-international-human-rights-organisations-submit-joint-report</a>
</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestinian, Regional, and International
Human Rights Organisations Submit Joint Report on Accountability to UN
Special Rapporteur</h1>June 3, 2020<br><div><div><div><p>Al-Haq, Al Mezan Centre for Human
Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and Habitat International
Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network, have submitted a joint
report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Mr
Michael Lynk, detailing the continued failure to ensure justice and
accountability, and an end to Israeli impunity, for widespread and
systematic human rights violations and international crimes committed
against the Palestinian people, including the crime of apartheid, ahead
of the Rapporteur’s presentation of a report on accountability to the
United Nations General Assembly in October 2020.</p>
<p>The comprehensive 62-page report addresses issues of third State
responsibility, the failure of States to cooperate, through the United
Nations and other international and regional organisations to bring an
end to Israeli impunity, the failures thus far of international justice
and corporate accountability in Palestine, and the dangers of the
continuation and further entrenchment of Israel’s pervasive impunity. In
doing so, the report suggests various methods by which the impunity gap
may be addressed, such as the activation of universal jurisdiction
mechanisms by third States, support for a full, thorough, and
comprehensive criminal investigation by the International Criminal Court
into the Situation in the State of Palestine and the <em>Mavi Marmara </em>flotilla
attacks, continued support, including annual updates, for the UN
Database on companies operating with illegal Israeli settlements, and
the prohibition of trade with illegal Israeli colonial settlements
through domestic legislation, amongst other measures of accountability.</p>
<p><strong>The full joint report is available to read <a href="http://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/upload/joint_submission_to_unsr_michael_lynk_on_accountability.pdf">here</a>.</strong></p>
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