{"id":12043,"date":"2025-10-06T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:43:28","slug":"35-csos-condemn-us-sanctions-on-leading-palestinian-human-rights-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/35-csos-condemn-us-sanctions-on-leading-palestinian-human-rights-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"35 CSOs Condemn US Sanctions on leading Palestinian Human Rights Organisations \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>35 CSOs Condemn US Sanctions on leading Palestinian Human Rights Organisations<br \/>\n29 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>As Israel\u2019s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza escalates, enabled by US military and political support, the US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on prominent Palestinian human rights organisations,\u00a0Al-Haq,\u00a0Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the\u00a0Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. This represents a grave assault on human rights standards, the global pursuit of justice and respect for international law.<\/p>\n<p>The work of these organisations in legal research, documentation and advocacy has shed light on Israel\u2019s ongoing violations of international law. Their engagement with international justice mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court (ICC), has resulted in their inclusion in a broader series of US sanctions applied to the ICC Prosecutor and deputies, six ICC judges, and UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Francesca Albanese.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of acknowledging and addressing these violations and its contribution to them, the United States has decided to sanction those striving to uphold the\u00a0 international human rights system and international justice, in an attempt to shield Israel from accountability for its genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, unlawful occupation of the whole oPt and apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls. Addameer, another prominent Palestinian organisation, has also been arbitrarily sanctioned by the US, solely for its work in defense of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned organisations, condemn this decision and call on states to take urgent and coordinated global action, show public solidarity with and protect the targeted organisations, and reaffirm their commitment to the international human rights system and international justice by opposing Executive Order 14203.<\/p>\n<p>These sanctions are the latest in a long line of attempts to silence Palestinian voices. We express our full solidarity with the three organisations and the entire Palestinian human rights movement in the face of this malicious effort, which is part of a decades-long campaign by Israel and its allies to systematically deny the Palestinians\u2019 rights, including the right to return, under international law, and evade justice and accountability for decades of crimes under international law.<\/p>\n<h4>The undersigned organisations call on all states, at national level and in multilateral fora, to:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Take concrete steps and utilise all available means to ensure the safety and protection of the operations and staff of these organisations in the occupied Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, who face heightened risks for carrying out legitimate human rights work.<\/li>\n<li>Urge EU Member States to immediately invoke and enforce the EU Blocking Statute to shield and protect Palestinian human rights organisations, defenders, UN experts, and the International Criminal Court from the effects of US extraterritorial sanctions. We further urge states to adopt similar instruments at national and regional level to mitigate the effect of these sanctions, while exerting diplomatic pressure on the US government to reverse them.<\/li>\n<li>Use all means at their disposal to pressure Israel to end its genocide and other violations of international law in Gaza and the oPt, including by: imposing a comprehensive arms embargo;\u00a0 suspending all activities that contribute to or are directly linked to Israel\u2019s unlawful occupation of the oPt, its system of apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls or the genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip; and imposing targeted sanctions against Israeli officials\u202fmost implicated in crimes under international law.\n<p>In parallel, we urge our fellow human rights organisations and defenders to:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join forces with partners, social movements, and solidarity groups to mobilise worldwide to amplify the voices of the Palestinian people. Support efforts to organise and exercise the right to peaceful assembly to pressure Israel to end its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and its oppression of the Palestinian people, and to achieve justice and accountability for Israel\u2019s violations of international law.<\/p>\n<h4>\n<strong>List of signatories\u00a0:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>11.11.11<br \/>\nAmnesty International<br \/>\nAnti-Racism Movement (Lebanon)<br \/>\nAssociazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana \u2013 ARCI<br \/>\nBelgian Academics and Artists for Palestine -BA4P<br \/>\nCairo Institute for Human Rights Studies<br \/>\nCCFD \u2013 Terre Solidaire<br \/>\nCenter for Egyptian Women\u2019s Legal Assistance \u2013 CEWLA<br \/>\nCenter for Legal Aid Voice in Bulgaria<br \/>\nCNCD-11.11.11<br \/>\nComit\u00e9 pour le respect des libert\u00e9s et des droits de l\u2019Homme en Tunisie \u2013 CRLDHT<br \/>\nComit\u00e9 pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg<br \/>\nConsiglio Italiano per i Rifugiati\u00a0\u2013 CIR<br \/>\nCooperazione Internazionale Sud-Sud \u2013 CISS<br \/>\nEgyptian Human Rights Forum \u2013 EHRF<br \/>\nEuroMed Rights<br \/>\nEuropean Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine \u2013 ECCP<br \/>\nF\u00e9d\u00e9ration des tunisiens citoyens des deux rives \u2013 FTCR<br \/>\nFIDH<br \/>\nHuman Rights Association\u00a0 (\u0130nsan Haklar\u0131 Derne\u011fi) \u2013 iHD<br \/>\nHuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement<br \/>\nJerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center \u2013 JLAC<br \/>\nLDH (Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme)<br \/>\nLebanese Center for Human Rights \u2013 CLDH<br \/>\nMovimento pelos direitos do povo palestino e pela paz no M\u00e9dio Oriente \u2013 MPPM<br \/>\nNew Woman Foundation \u2013 Egypt<br \/>\nPalestinian Human Rights Organisation in Lebanon \u2013 PHRO<br \/>\nPax Christi International<br \/>\nPlateforme des ONG fran\u00e7aises pour la Palestine<br \/>\nRefugees Platform In Egypt-RPE<br \/>\nSadaka-the Ireland Palestine Alliance<br \/>\nSinai Foundation for Human Rights \u2013 SFHR<br \/>\nTr\u00f3caire<br \/>\nWeltfriedensdienst e.V.<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling \u2013 WCLAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35 CSOs Condemn US Sanctions on leading Palestinian Human Rights Organisations 29 Sep 2025 As Israel\u2019s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza escalates, enabled by US military<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}