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Founded | 1996 |
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Type | Non-profit NGO |
Focus | Human rights, Arab citizens of Israel, minority rights, civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, prisoners' rights, land and planning rights[1] |
Location | |
Area served | Israel and the Palestinian Territories |
Method | Impact litigation, legal consultation, international advocacy, education, training, publication, media outreach[3] |
Website | www |
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Hebrew: עדאלה – המרכז המשפטי לזכויות המיעוט הערבי בישראל, romanized: 'Adalah – HaMerkaz HaMishpati LiZhuyot HaMi'ut Ha'Aravi B'Yisrael; Arabic: عدالة – المركز القانوني لحماية حقوق الأقلية العربية في إسرائيل, romanized: ʿAdāla – al-Markaz al-Qānūnī li-Huqūq al-ʾAqalliyya l-ʿArabiyya fī ʾIsrāʾīl; ʿadāla meaning 'justice' in Arabic) is a human rights organization and legal center.
Adalah's goals are "achieving individual and collective rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel" and protecting "the human rights of Palestinians living under occupation, based on international humanitarian law and international human rights law".[4]
The organization was founded in November 1996; it is non-partisan and not-for-profit. Adalah's founder and General Director is lawyer Hassan Jabareen.