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Center for Defense of Liberties &Civil Rights "Hurryyat"

National Network

Palestine

Address

Raha building 2nd floor Ramallah Palestinian Territories

Country

Palestinian Territories

City

Ramallah

Street address 2

Raha building 2nd floor

Mobile Phone

0599672061

Telephone

009722963665

Telephone (other)

0592467243

E-Mail

hurryyat@yahoo.com

E-Mail (2)

alaa-745@hotmail.com

Website

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Year of Establishment

2003

Contact Person1

Helmi Mohammad Al-aaraj

Job Title 1

Director

Contact Person 2

Alaa AlBadarna

Job Title 2

Legal Advisor

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Human rights

General Information

The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” is a Palestinian NGO, independent organization. Hurryyat has 10 employees;  we have in hurryat a director, a secretary, legal advisor, lawyers, an accountant, beside our media employee. Hurryyat was established in Jerusalem in 1992, and registered on 2003 at the Palestinian Ministry of Interior under registration number (RA-2276-LS); aspiring for contributing towards democratic and modern Palestinian society. The center’s programs were designed in accordance to the main objectives. Source of funding are several Organizations we list some of them: 1. UNDPD 2. Human Rights secretary- Birzeit  3. Arab Fund for Economic& social evelopment.

Mission and Objectives

Hurryyat supports and thrives to enhance the rule of law through raising awareness and lobbying on human, civic and political rights within the Palestinian society, monitoring human rights violations and providing legal, financial and psychological assistance especially to Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails and their families.  The center’s programs were designed in accordance to the main objectives of the strategic plan as follows: 1. provide legal, financial and medical assistance to both the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails and their families. 2. Monitoring human rights violations (including torture practices) in the Israeli and Palestinian jails. 3. Provide legal follow up to citizens banned from their right to travel.

Main Projects / Activities

Main Projects are: Prisoner Project; which includes lawyer visits, medical assistance and financial & legal support. Torture Prevention in both Palestinian and Israeli prisons Right to movement & mobility for Palestinians Palestinian elections

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Hurryyat envisions an independent, free and democratic Palestinian state where justice and peace, tolerance, respect for the rights and dignity of human beings are guaranteed, and where freedom of expression, social justice, rule of law are promoted, respected and sustained.  Hurryat aims to contribute towards democratic and modern Palestinian society, that will be achieved in many mechanisms and one of the mechanisms are to be in such a network so we can be in touch with other organization that has the same supreme goal in changing the societies to be a better place to exercise human rights at, also to exchange and provide information between organization in the network.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Hurryyat wants to joint ELF network because of our beliefs of communication and cooperation with organization on local and regional perspective .Hurryat believes in collaborations to achieve our goals in reinforcing respect for human rights including freedom of expression to guarantee the citizens a safe atmosphere to exercise their basic rights in.