
Date | Publication | View Publication |
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BRIEFINGS | ||
18.3.21 | LPHR Briefing on Universal Jurisdiction | View Briefing |
24.9.20 | LPHR Briefing on annexation and settlement expansion (circulated for a parliamentary debate) | View Briefing |
30.4.20 | LPHR Briefing: Urgent imperative for the UK government to ensure application of international law in response to Israel’s imminent annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and its policy of illegal settlement expansion – including substantive recommendations | View Briefing |
30.10.18 | LPHR Briefing: The impending demolition of the Palestinian community of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank and the forcible transfer of its residents | View Briefing |
3.7.18 | LPHR Briefing: The Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism: its ineffectiveness, its incompatibility with international humanitarian and human rights law obligations, and its future (submitted to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory) | View Briefing |
7.2.18 | LPHR Briefing: Israel's military detention of Palestinian children (used by Sarah Champion MP as the basis for her lead speech opening the debate) | View Briefing |
12.1.18 | LPHR Briefing: The UK government's position on the UN business and human rights database listing companies involved in settlement-related activities (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Briefing |
17.7.17 | LPHR Briefing: Local authorities pensions investment and public procurement decision-making relating to companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territory and/or Israel | View Briefing |
6.12.17 | LPHR Briefing: The effect of Israel's demolitions on Palestinian communities with a specific focus on the significant issue of forcible transfer (circulated for a parliamentary debate) | View Briefing |
9.2.17 | LPHR Briefing: The human rights impact of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and related third-state legal duties (circulated for a parliamentary debate) | View Briefing |
29.7.16 | LPHR and Medical Aid for Palestinians Briefing: Ensuring the UK provides equal protection to Palestinian refugees from Syria | View Briefing |
9.6.15 | LPHR Briefing on the Final Statement issued by the UK National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines concerning LPHR's business and human rights complaint against G4S (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Briefing |
11.5.16 | LPHR Briefing on the G4S Corporate Social Responsibility Report's inadequate response to being found in breach of human rights obligations under the OECD Guidelines (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Briefing |
6.1.16 | LPHR Briefing: Israel's military detention of Palestinian children (circulated for a parliamentary debate) | View Briefing |
Q&As | ||
30.6.20 | LPHR Q&A: Ireland’s Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill in the context of imminent formal annexation and ongoing settlement expansion | View Q&A |
8.7.19 | LPHR Q&A: Current progress of the International Criminal Court's preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine and potential next steps | View Q&A |
6.6.19 | LPHR Q&A: Are agreed land swaps between an occupying power and an occupied people permissible under international law and should the UK government reconsider support for it | View Q&A |
15.3.19 | LPHR Q&A: Update on the situation in Yarmouk refugee camp, Syria | View Q&A |
27.7.18 | LPHR Q&A: What's happened to the UN Business and Human Rights Database for companies involved in settlement-related activities? (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Q&A |
20.6.18 | LPHR Q&A: Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem at risk of forcible transfer | View Q&A |
13.4.18 | LPHR Q&A: Use of force against Gaza protesters | View Q&A |
20.9.17 | LPHR Q&A: Gaza Electricity Crisis | View Q&A |
13.6.17 | LPHR and Physicians for Human-Rights Israel Q&A: Administrative Detention and Hunger-Strike Protests | View Q&A |
14.9.16 | LPHR Q&A: Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism | View Q&A |
14.9.16 | LPHR Q&A: Closure of Gaza | View Q&A |
8.9.15 | LPHR Q&A: Immunities and Gaza Accountability | View Q&A |
14.7.15 | LPHR Q&A: The situation in Yarmouk refugee camp, Syria | View Q&A |
LETTERS | ||
16.9.20 | LPHR Letter to UN Humanitarian Coordinator on outstanding concerns regarding the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism and request to consider the feasibility of an alternative enhanced UN-led access mechanism for Gaza | View Letter |
28.4.20 | Joint Letter to International Criminal Court state parties calling for support to the ICC in the face of threats to its independence and mandate | View Letter |
27.2.20 | LPHR Letter: Urging the UK government to ensure respect for international law and human rights in response to the release of the ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan by the US | View Letter |
29.8.19 | Joint Letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Urging Release of the UN Database of Companies Engaged in Activities Related to Israeli Settlements | View Letter |
4.6.19 | Joint Letter: Europe’s human rights policy in the forthcoming US plan for the Middle East | View Letter |
17.9.18 | Joint Letter to ICC Prosecutor: End Impunity and Open Investigation on Palestine | View Letter |
22.2.18 | Joint Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights following his Office's progress report on the UN Database of businesses involved in settlement activities | View Letter |
8.3.17 | LPHR Letter submitted to G4S requesting clarification on G4S’ activities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory following its announcement of agreement to sell G4S Israel to FIMI Opportunity Funds (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Letter |
8.3.17 | LPHR Letter submitted to FIMI Opportunity Funds requesting clarification on its pending acquisition of G4S Israel (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Letter |
28.10.15 | LPHR Letter submitted to G4S with 16 key questions following publication of the UK NCP Final Statement (subsequently published in May 2016 by LPHR and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre after no reply was received from the company) | View Letter |
4.8.14 | LPHR Letter published in the Guardian urging the UK government to publicly condemn Israel’s policy of directly targeting family homes in Gaza | View Guardian Letter |
REPORTS | ||
30.3.20 | LPHR, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) and Medical Aid for Palestinians Report: 'Chronic Impunity: Gaza's Health Sector Under Repeated Attack' | View Report |
2.4.19 | LPHR Short Report: Eleven key points relevant to the complementarity assessment being undertaken by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the grave issue of targeted airstrikes against family homes in Gaza | View Report |
5.9.18 | LPHR and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) Report: Justice Denied: Gaza human shield survivors and the systemic failure of Israel’s military investigation system to provide accountability | View Report |
12.7.16 | LPHR, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) and Medical Aid for Palestinians Year-on Update to June 2015 Report: 'No More Impunity: Gaza's Health Sector Under Attack' | View Report |
26.6.15 | LPHR, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) and Medical Aid for Palestinians Report: 'No More Impunity: Gaza's Health Sector Under Attack' | View Report |
STATEMENTS | ||
14.4.21 | Joint Statement of UK charities responding to Prime Minister's comments on ICC investigation into the Situation in Palestine | View Statement |
08.02.21 | LPHR Statement: ICC Prosecutor should affirmatively decide that Gaza cases are admissible for investigation following Pre-Trial Chamber decision that the Court has jurisdiction | View Statement |
24.1.21 | LPHR, Addameer and Friends of Birzeit University (Fobzu) Statement on International Education Day: Highlighting the systematic targeting of Palestinian university students for prolonged arbitrary military detention by Israel's military authorities | View Statement |
23.12.20 | LPHR Statement: LPHR and Defence for Children International Palestine’s ‘Know Your Rights’ campaign for children on detainee rights is seven years old and remains critically important | View Statement |
22.12.20 | Joint Statement: 30 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organisations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems | View Statement |
12.10.20 | LPHR Statement: JCB to be investigated after UK Government body accepts LPHR complaint is material and substantiated relating to involvement in Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians (reported by the Guardian) | View Statement |
7.7.20 | LPHR and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) Statement to ICC Prosecutor: Assessing cases of the 2014 attacks on Gaza leads to definitive conclusion: victims and survivors have been abandoned to non-genuine investigations and gross injustice | View Statement |
29.6.20 | Joint Statement of UK Charities: Is the UK Government abandoning the Palestinian people? (reported by the Guardian) | View Statement |
7.4.20 | Joint Statement: In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs | View Statement |
25.2.20 | Joint Statement of UK charities: The release of the UN database of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements: UK organisations urge UK Government to take action to end businesses’ involvement in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory | View Statement |
28.1.20 | Joint Statement: UK charities urge government to challenge annexation, US ‘Peace Plan’ | View Statement |
24.12.19 | LPHR Statement: A seminal step towards legal accountability and justice for victims, survivors and their families: ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's decision that she is ready to open an investigation into the situation in Palestine | View Statement |
10.12.19 | LPHR Statement: LPHR files OECD Guidelines complaint against JCB for involvement in human rights breaches in the occupied Palestinian territory | View Statement |
23.3.19 | Joint Statement: A dereliction of responsibility: UK charities alarmed by UK decision not to support UN Commission of Inquiry report into Gaza protests at the UN Human Rights Council (reported by the Guardian) | View Statement |
5.3.19 | Joint Statement: UK Charities welcome UN Commission of Inquiry report into Gaza protests, urge UK action | View Statement |
1.6.18 | Joint Statement: UK-based organisations deeply concerned by UK Government decision not to support UN Gaza inquiry | View Statement |
16.3.18 | Joint Statement submitted to 37th Session of UN Human Rights Council: Impunity for torture, ill-treatment and related practices in Israel | View Statement |
5.7.17 | Joint Statement: LPHR and MAP welcome statement by Home Secretary to widen UK’s Syria resettlement scheme to include non-Syrian nationals | View Statement |
30.6.17 | LPHR Statement: LPHR welcomes G4S' completion of sale of G4S Israel as being an act in accordance with its business and human rights responsibilities (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
23.5.17 | LPHR Statement: G4S' striking omission of adverse human rights findings in its latest Corporate Social Responsibility report ahead of its AGM (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
5.4.17 | LPHR Statement: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights report excerpts LPHR's evidence and makes related key recommendation | View Statement |
19.6.17 | Joint Oral Statement on legal accountability at the 35th Session of the UN Human Rights Council | View Statement |
21.3.17 | Joint Oral Statement on legal accountability at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council | View Statement |
6.12.16 | LPHR Statement: G4S announcement of agreement to sell G4S Israel (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
21.9.16 | LPHR Statement: G4S continues to misrepresent UK watchdog’s decision that the company breached human rights obligations, despite being reprimanded for ‘disappointing’ behaviour (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
7.7.16 | LPHR Statement: UK watchdog criticises G4S for misleading public over breach of human rights obligations towards Palestinians and finds it has not implemented key recommendations (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
9.6.15 | LPHR Statement: UK watchdog finds G4S is violating human rights obligations towards Palestinians (reported by The Times) | View Statement |
21.3.16 | Joint Statement submitted to 31st Session on the UN Human Rights Council: Addressing prevailing impunity for Israel's alleged violations of international law | View Statement |
25.11.15 | LPHR Statement: Labour's executive decision to end their security contact with G4S (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
23.6.15 | LPHR Statement: Response to G4S' fundamental misrepresentation of adverse findings of human rights breaches of the OECD Guidelines (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
10.6.15 | LPHR Statement: Response to G4S' public statement on being found in breach of three key human rights obligations (published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) | View Statement |
2.6.14 | LPHR Statement: G4S to be investigated following LPHR complaint relating to alleged Israeli human rights violations (reported by The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph) | View Statement |
23.12.13 | LPHR and Defence for Children International-Palestine launch “Know Your Rights” campaign for children on detainee rights | View Statement |
SUBMISSIONS | ||
18.9.20 | LPHR and Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association (West Bank) Complaint Submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the arbitrary detention of three female Palestinian students from Birzeit University: Ms Layan Kayed, Ms Elyaa Abu Hijla and Ms Ruba Asi | View Submission |
31.5.20 | LPHR Submission for Accountability Study by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory, Professor Michael Lynk | View Submission |
21.5.20 | LPHR and Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association (West Bank) Complaint Submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the arbitrary detention of 22-year old Palestinian university student, Ms Shatha Hasan | View Submission |
10.12.19 | LPHR Complaint Submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises against JCB for involvement in human rights breaches in the occupied Palestinian territory | View Submission |
10.12.18 | LPHR Evidence Submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in Gaza: Israel's Supreme Court judgment on the legality of Israel's rules of engagement in the context of use of force against Gaza protesters | View Submission |
11.6.18 | UK Charities Evidence Submission to the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee: The UK government's position on Item 7 of the UN Human Rights Council | View Submission |
29.8.17 | LPHR's Update to its Evidence Submission of 30 December 2016 to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on companies allegedly involved in the construction and growth of Israeli settlements | View Submission |
30.12.16 | LPHR Evidence Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on companies allegedly involved in the construction and growth of Israeli settlements | View Submission |
12.12.16 | LPHR and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) Update to Complaint Submission to the United Nations (Commission of Inquiry and Special Rapporteurs) concerning large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 | View Submission |
7.11.16 | LPHR and Medical Aid for Palestinians Evidence Submission to the UK Parliament's International Development Committee on the need to end the exclusion of Palestinian refugees from Syria from the UK government's relevant resettlement programmes | View Submission |
20.10.16 | LPHR and Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association (West Bank) Complaint Submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the ongoing arbitrary detention of Mr Bara Abudhier, a young Palestinian man with vulnerabilities stemming from a serious brain injury | View Submission |
20.9.16 | LPHR Evidence Submission to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry on Business and Human Rights (used by the JCHR as basis for a key recommendation in its 2017 report - see LPHR statement above dated 5 April 2017) | View Submission |
29.6.15 | LPHR and Women's Centre for Legal Aid & Counselling (West Bank) Complaint Submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the frequent targeting of the Palestinian human rights defender, Mrs Manal Tamimi | View Submission |
6.2.15 | LPHR, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) and Medical Aid for Palestinians Complaint Submission to the UN (Commission of Inquiry and Special Rapporteurs) concerning destruction and damage to medical infrastructure, and loss of life and injury to civilians and medical personnel, in Gaza, during Israel's military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 | View Submission |
30.9.14 | LPHR and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Gaza) Complaint Submission to the UN (Commission of Inquiry and Special Rapporteurs) concerning large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 | View Submission |
19.11.13 | LPHR Complaint Submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises regarding the activities of G4S in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel | View Submission |