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Palestine Human Rights Information Center
(PHRIC)
12 Mas'udi St., third floor,
East Jerusalem
P.O.B. 20479
Jerusalem
Tel: 02-6287076/7
Fax: 02-6287070
E-mail: phric@baraka.org
Director: Dr. Musa Dweik
Contact Persons: Mahmoud Jiddah Salamat, Lulu Al-Fahoum

PHRIC was established in 1986 under the auspices of the Arab Studies Society as an independent, non-governmental organization. PHRIC's main interests include: 1) human rights monitoring, documentation, and reporting (of both Israel and the PA) based on thorough field investigation and eyewitness testimony; 2) advocacy and intervention for the protection and relief of human rights victims through cooperation with local human rights organizations, urgent action alerts, and formal representation to human rights organizations and U.N. agencies; 3) education and promotion of human rights standards in Palestinian society through community-based projects, seminars and publications. PHRIC runs a Human Rights Education Campaign, a Housing Rights Project and the Palestine Housing Rights Movement.

The urgent issues the PHRIC is focused on include human rights violations in Jerusalem, and in particular, the impacts of the closures, confiscation of Palestinian land, seizure of homes and the expansion of Jewish settlements.

PHRIC was a central participant in the preparation of a parallel report submitted by the Palestine Housing Rights Movement to the U.N. Sub-Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through the U.N. representative of Habitat International Coalition in May 1996.

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