Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Writing al-Haq
	Scholarship: Al-Haq and Human Rights
	Framing the Work
	Al-Haq Contributions
Chapter 1. Context
	The Occupied Territories, Israel, and the PLO
	West Bank Legal Profession
	Camp David
	Human Rights Organizations
	International Law
	Human Rights in the Region
Chapter 2. Beginnings
Chapter 3. Founders
	Raja Shehadeh
	Jonathan Kuttab
	Charles Shammas
	LSM Steering Committee
Chapter 4. Organization
	Who Are We? in 1983
	The Politics of LSM
	Participation, Voluntarism, and Wednesday Evening Meetings
	Members and Staffers
	Into the Intifada: Twenty Years of Occupation
Chapter 5. Interventions and Allies
	Interventions
	Allies
	The ICRC
	The Enforcement Project
Chapter 6. Field and Legal Research
	Fieldwork Methodology
	The Risks of Fieldwork
	Intifada Expansion
	From Affidavits to Publications and Campaigns
	Affidavits and the Palestinian Audience
	Fieldwork and the Database
	Publishing on Prisons
	Structural Work
	Legal Advice and Know Your Rights
	Invoking the Law
Chapter 7. Fallouts
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index