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| Motto | It is important to continue the struggle despite frustrations and disappointment based on an ultimate faith in the triumph of justice. |
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| Founded | November 2011 |
| Founder | Ramy Abdu |
| Type | Non-profit INGO |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Services | Protecting human rights |
| Fields | Legal advocacy, Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, lobbying |
| Website | euromedmonitor |
Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor is an independent, nonprofit organization for the protection of human rights. Its main objective is to raise the level of awareness toward the human rights law in the area and to influence the international law to take action against human rights violators. [1]
A nonprofit organization, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view. In economic terms, it is an organization that uses its surplus of the revenues to further achieve its ultimate objective, rather than distributing its income to the organization's shareholders, leaders, or members. Nonprofits are tax exempt or charitable, meaning they do not pay income tax on the money that they receive for their organization. They can operate in religious, scientific, research, or educational settings.
Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings", regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone. They are regarded as requiring empathy and the rule of law and imposing an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others, and it is generally considered that they should not be taken away except as a result of due process based on specific circumstances; for example, human rights may include freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture and execution.
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Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor is frequently quoted by major news media, such as AlJazeera, BBC, France 24 and other international media about the increased violations during the armed conflicts, particularly in the MENA region. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Richard Falk, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967", [11] [12] serves as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. [13] [14] [15]
Richard Anderson Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes, In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967."
Special rapporteur, independent expert, and working group member are titles given to individuals working on behalf of the United Nations (UN) within the scope of "special procedure" mechanisms who have a specific country or thematic mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The term "rapporteur" is a French-derived word for an investigator who reports to a deliberative body.
Palestinian territories has been used for many years to describe the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. More recently, the official United Nations terminology has been used, occupied Palestinian territory increasingly replacing other terms since 1999. The European Union also has adopted this usage The International Court of Justice refers to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as "the Occupied Palestinian Territory" and this term is used as the legal definition by the International Court of Justice in the ruling in July 2004. The term occupied Palestinian territories is also still in common use.
