Association for Civil Rights in Israel
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Hebrew האגודה לזכויות האזרח בישראל, English The Association for Civil Rights in Israel - ACRI ) was established as an independent and impartial organization for the protection of human and civil rights in Israel and the occupied territories.
History
The foundation stone was laid in 1972 by a group of academics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who saw a need in the establishment of an independent and non-parliamentary organization for the protection of human rights. The Prinizipien the organization in the Wertgrundsaetzen the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Their basis in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adapted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 and
Today, the Association is the largest human rights organization in Israel and the only one in Israel that will handle the entire spectrum of human rights, such as the right to life, the right to freedom of expression, etc.
Program, members and organization
The union protects human rights by helping to draft legislation, in which they can incorporate their principles; through the courts, by holding hearings in various instances, but most often before the Israeli Supreme Court; further through education and through public relations, for example, in the writing of publications, in the performing of training programs in the educational system and for Israeli security forces.
The association is composed of professional members and volunteers. Among them are key figures from the fields of law and education, the press and the academic landscape to find. The Association is fully independent in all their activities.
Your financial resources it relates from membership fees and donations from Israel and around the world. It receives no funds from political parties or the government.
In 2000 the Association was awarded the annual prize of the Israeli Bar Association for their contributions to law and society in Israel.
Since 2008 the author Sami Michael is the President of the Association. Under former President Professor Ruth Gavison and you will find the judges of the Superior Court Shimon Agranat and Chaim Cohn.
The Association has awarded the annual Emil- Grünzweig Human Rights Award to an individual or a non-governmental organization in recognition of unique contributions to improve the human rights situation in Israel. The award was established in 1981 to life in 1983 and renamed after Emil Grünzweig, an activist who was killed during a peace demonstration against the war in Lebanon from a from a right protesters thrown grenade.