Protesting for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Assessing the Challenges and Revisiting the Human Rights Defender Framework

Bibliographic Data

ID12930355
AuthorsR Jaraisy (corresponding author), Ted Feldman
Year2013
Volume5
Issue3
Pages421-434
Publication date2013-09-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Rights Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-9619 • E-ISSN: 1757-9627
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jhuman/hut021
OpenAlexW2137824525
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

Addressing the special challenges human rights activists and promoters are faced with in the West Bank has been one of our major tasks as human rights attorneys working intensively on human rights issues, including the right to protest, in the occupied Palestinian territory. This policy and practice note sets out a detailed analysis of some of the challenges we initially faced while trying to apply the human rights defenders framework to protest actions taken by Palestinians to promote and protect their and their communities' human rights as part of their struggle against the occupation and towards self-determination. These challenges were experienced on a principled level of identifying and defining ‘human rights defenders’ as such, and on the practical level of both selecting effective tools to support and protect the human rights promotion activities that these activists conduct on a daily basis, and assessing the implications of the human rights defenders framework for the construction and functioning of grassroots movements and solidarity-based groups

Fundamental rights · Grassroots · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Solidarity · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Political Conflict and Governance · Law · Public Administration

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