Under articles seven and eight of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, population transfer can amount to a crime against humanity and...
John Dugard, who was UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories between 2000 and 2007, concluded in this 2007 report...
Based upon updated figures from Yesh Din's monitoring, this data sheet shows that the extent of the failure on the part of the SJ District Police to investigate...
The Alternative Information Center explores the question: what if Israel's Wall were constructed on the Green Line? This brief explores the humanitarian...
In July 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s construction of the Wall and its associated regime in the West Bank violates the...
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas states that Palestinians have accepted the Quartet’s Roadmap, and that their goal is two states living side by side in peace...
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a draft agreement prepared by Sir Mark Sykes, a Member of Parliament and secretary to the British Cabinet, and Charles Georges-Picot,...
The Balfour Declaration, 1917, conveyed a declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations on behalf of the British Government. It stated that the...
The King-Crane commission was the first instance of top-level American concern with Syria and Palestine. The report produced a series of recommendations...
The Mandate of Palestine confirmed that Palestine would be mandated to Great Britain, and that the government of Great Britain would be responsible for...
The letter from British Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald to Chaim Weizmann reinterpreted the 1930 Passfield White Paper in a way more favorable to the...
The British White Paper aimed to bring a clear definition of the policy and objectives of the British Government to the people of Palestine. It concluded...
UN Resolution 181 called for the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state within a partitioned Palestine. The British Mandate over the area was to...
The General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) set up the three-state Conciliation Commission for Palestine, CCP. The mandate given to the CCP was "to facilitate...
The Fourth Geneva Convention states that a belligerent occupying power is not allowed to make changes in the laws, institutions, or government of the territory...
In Resolution 303 (IV) the General Assembly restates its intention that Jerusalem should be placed under a permanent international regime, guaranteeing...
In his 1974 speech to the General Assembly, Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, strove to obtain recognition for the...
In his speech to the General Assembly in Geneva, Yasser Arafat announced that the Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, renounces terrorism in all...
