Al-Haq is the Ramallah-based Palestinian human rights organization active since 1979. In 2020 the opening reported that Visa, Mastercard and American Express had withdrawn donation facilities from Al-Haq and three other NGOs in 2018 after being alerted the groups had 'links to a designated terrorist organisation.' Today the opening describes Al-Haq only as a group that 'monitors and documents human rights violations' and lists its institutional affiliations, with no mention of the terrorist-designation controversy, though terror survives 15 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns which international bodies Al-Haq is affiliated with, not that major credit card companies cut its donation processing over alleged links to a designated terrorist organization.
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Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian human-rights organization . It was founded in 1979 and is based in Ramallah in the West Bank .1 It monitors and documents human rights violations by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. Al-Haq has been affiliated with the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). It also is part of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO). Online credit card donation facilities have been withdrawn in May 2018 from four NGOs (Al-Haq, Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), Union of Agricultural Work committees (UAWC) and the Alternative Information Centre) after Visa, Mastercard and American Express were alerted that these NGOs had links to a designated terrorist organisation, namely Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Credit Card Donations to Terrorist linked NGOs terminated2
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Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian human rights organization founded in 1979 and based in Ramallah in the West Bank . It monitors and documents human rights violations by all parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. Al-Haq has been an affiliate of the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists for over 20 years, and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition , and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). It also is part of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations' Network (PNGO). Al-Haq and its counterpart, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem , were co-recipients of the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize in 1990 , and of the Geuzenpenning , a Dutch human rights award, in 2009 About Al Haq Stichting Geuzenverzet 1940-1945
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Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian human-rights organization founded in 1979 and based in Ramallah in the West Bank . It monitors and documents human-rights violations by all parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. Al-Haq has been an affiliate of the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists for over 20 years and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). It also is part of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations' Network (PNGO).
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Founded in 1979, Al-Haq monitors and documents human rights violations committed by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies.It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2000. Al-Haq has been affiliated with the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights , Habitat International Coalition and the World Organisation Against Torture . It also is part of EuroMed Rights ' Executive Committee and the Steering Committee of the Palestinian NGOs Network .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
"the Truth" or "the Right") is a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank . Founded in 1979, Al-Haq monitors and documents human rights violations committed by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2000. Al-Haq has been affiliated with the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights , Habitat International Coalition and the World Organisation Against Torture . It also is part of EuroMed Rights ' Executive Committee and the Steering Committee of the Palestinian NGOs Network .
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independent palestinian human rights organization founded in 1979 and based in ramallah in the west bank
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palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in the city of ramallah in the west bank
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