Summary
Scholar whose 1994 writing on Al-Haq Welchman cites on the organization’s formative period, its legal-research priority and its governing circle (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.21, p.67, p.89, p.92).
Details
- He named the risk in LSM’s meticulous rule-of-law picture as an “emphasis on micro-violations to the detriment of the bigger picture” (PDF p.41).
- On the Israeli reaction to The West Bank and the Rule of Law: “To accuse Israel of repressing Palestinians was one thing, but to accuse it of doing so illegally quite another” (PDF p.67).
- He observes that until the end of 1991 al-Haq was governed by only four (later three) individuals from nearly identical class, geographic, educational, confessional and professional backgrounds (PDF p.89).
- In 1994 he observed that legal research, as opposed to human rights monitoring and intervention narrowly understood, “assumed pride of place during al-Haq’s formative period” (PDF p.92).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq