Summary
Palestinian lawyer who grew up in the Gaza Strip, took her law degree in Cairo (1981), trained at the Shehadeh law office, and became Al-Haq’s first executive director (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.70, p.89).
Details
- The next lawyer after the founders to be drawn into LSM’s activities on a long-term basis; she joined the Shehadeh law office for her training (PDF p.70).
- She volunteered with LSM during her trainee period, writing most of the organization’s Arabic publications for that period (PDF p.89).
- She authored LSM’s Know Your Rights series at the time of the 1983 leaflet: The Land: Legal Means of Defending It (1982) and The Citizen: Search, Arrest, Military Trial (1983) (PDF p.92).
- On the name: “We weren’t al-Haq then. The clue is in the name: it wasn’t ‘right’ (haqq), it was ‘law’; it was a law-based organization” (PDF p.93).
- She joined the Executive Committee that replaced the three-man Steering Committee in 1985, and left in 1990 after two intense intifada years as al-Haq’s first executive director (PDF p.89).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq, Raja Shehadeh