Ramallah & Al-Bireh

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a legal study entitled "Legal Regulations of Media Freedom in Palestine", prepared by legal advisor Rashad Tawam under the supervision of lawyer Ahmed Nasra. This study was funded by the UNESCO office in Ramallah.

The study sheds light on the legal environment relating to and affecting media freedoms in the Palestinian territories, its impact on restricting media work, and if or how these regulations meet international standards.

NGO Development Center and partners highlight the need to protect and promote human rights throughout the oPt.

"SHAMS" center reminds the United Nations, and peace-loving countries, that, despite the passage of 63 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Palestinian people continue to suffer under the yoke of occupation, in flagrant and continuous violations for its basic rights that comprise abuse of the right to life, arrest of thousands of citizens in the prisons of the occupation, prevention of freedom of movement, prevention of access to places of worship, demolition of houses, uprooting trees, confiscation of land and properties, building and expanding settlements, isolation of vi

On the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance on 16th November, SHAMS center calls upon the need to resort to the principle of dialogue, and to refuse resorting to the use or threat of force, and stresses the need for establishing a new vision of tolerance beyond the boundaries of religion and individualism to become a prominent right that should be defended and protected legally.