Summary
The second human rights organization set up in the West Bank, established in 1986 by the Arab Studies Society and operating out of Jerusalem, publishing large amounts of data on human rights violations, particularly after the start of the intifada (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.141).
Details
- In Penny Johnson’s 1988 comparison, PHRIC had “a more activist agenda” and less of a focus on legal research than Al-Haq; its director Jan Abu Shakra emphasized the Center’s primary constituency as local, because “rights must be claimed” (PDF p.141).
- Rabbani pointed to tensions between PHRIC and al-Haq because of al-Haq’s sometimes perhaps overly painstaking approach and its “predictable refusal to comment on events in the Gaza Strip during 1987–1988 because it did not have its own sources of information” (PDF p.141).
- Rabbani later described the functional division of labour: PHRIC’s comparative advantage was in “comprehensive documentation and reporting, rapid intervention, and an extremely professional international distribution network” (PDF p.142).
- In June 1990 al-Haq and PHRIC issued the joint statement “Representation to State Signatories of the Fourth Geneva Convention”, with the supplement “The Need for International Protection” (PDF p.156-157).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq, Enforcement Project