Al Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Second Applied International Law Summer School for international post-graduate law students and legal researchers in Ramallah, Occupied Palestine on 24 July - 07 August 2016.

Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation, Palestinians have not had full control over their own natural resources, including water. Israel, the Occupying Power,  has maintained a hegemony over water resources through a set of military laws and orders, provisions  under the Oslo Accords and land confiscation. Through the integration of water resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory into the Israeli system, Israel allocates water resources for the benefit of its own Israeli citizens and settlers at the expense of Palestinians. This discriminatory allocation deprives most Palestinians from their essential needs for livelihood and creates harsh conditions for many communities. 

Al-Haq is monitoring the large-scale strike waged by Palestinian teachers at public schools throughout the West Bank. The strike commenced on 10 February 2016 with the suspension of classes after the fourth period of the school day. The schoolteachers’ main demands included the granting of cost of living and work allowances with a retroactive effect starting from 1 January 2014. On the same day, the government presented the Teachers Union with a proposal to end the strike. The proposal was rejected, as the Teachers Union and many teachers found it to be unfair, failed to meet their demands, and was inconsistent with workers’ rights. A general strike was then declared in public schools throughout the West Bank.

In 2015, Israel’s intentions towards the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and the Palestinian population were made clear through the unabashed extreme rhetoric of government officials and a deepening of various practices that violate Palestinian rights.