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Abraham Fund; www.abrahamfund.org

The Abraham Fund Initiatives works to advance coexistence, equality andcooperation among Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens by creating and operatinglarge-scale initiatives, cultivating strategic grassroots projects and conducting public education and advocacy that promote its vision of shared citizenship and
opportunity for all of Israel’s citizens.

Access for Peace in the Middle East; www.accessforpeace.org

We are human rights observers, aid workers, independent journalists andvolunteers with years of experience of volunteering in Gaza and the West Bank.Now, because of the increasing stranglehold of Israeli's illegal occupation of Palestine, many of us find it almost impossible to enter Gaza, and an increasing number have been refused entry to the West Bank also. Despite the great need for our work, we cannot enter to do it.

Association for civil rights in Israel (ACRI); www.acri.org.il

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is Israel’s leading human and civil rights organization and the only organization dealing with the entire spectrum of rights and liberties issues in Israel and the occupied territories.

Action for Children in Conflict AfCiC; www.actionchildren.org

Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) works to break cycles of violence, hatred and despair by providing psychological, emotional and educational support to the survivors of conflict. AfCiC focuses its activities on children and young
people, who have the greatest capacity to transcend the conflicts of their communities and to bring about change in the future. Children offer the best hope for change, and are increasingly amongst the most vulnerable in conflict situations. AfCiC works, both in the UK and overseas, to create places of safety where trained key workers can provide a climate of support and befriending tailored to the needs of young people and their communities.

Adalah ; www.adalah.org/eng/index.php

Adalah is an independent human rights organization, registered in Israel. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan legal center. Established in November 1996, it serves Arab citizens of Israel, numbering over one million people or close to 20% of the population. Adalah ("Justice" in Arabic) works to protect human rights in general, and the rights of the Arab minority in particular.

American-Arab anti discrimination committee; www.adc.org

ADC is a grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities as members

ADDAMEER; www.addameer.org

ADDAMEER (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues. Established in 1992 by a group of activists interested in human rights, the center's activities focus on offering support for Palestinian

A different future; www.adifferentfuture.org

A Different Future is an interfaith, international NGO of religious leaders,scholars, communications experts, artists and philanthropists. We aim to useour collective expertise to strengthen the voice of Palestinians and Israelis whose actions demonstrate that it is possible for their peoples to live and work
side by side.

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Al-Awda; www.al-awda.org,

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, nonpartisan,democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin.

Al-Haq; www.alhaq.org

Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Alternative Information Centre AIC; www.alternativenews.org

The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. In doing so, the AIC promotes responsible co-operation between Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social and political justice, equality, solidarity, community involvement and respect for the full inalienable national rights of all Palestinian people

Amnesty International; www.amnesty.org

Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

Arab Organization for Human Rights; www.aohr.org

Aims: Call for respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all citizens and residents of the Arab world; defend any individual whose human rights aresubjected to violations.

Arab Association for Human Rights; www.arabhra.org;

The Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA) was established in 1988 and registered as a non-profit organisation in Israel in 1990. Human-rights education, now including the women’s human rights project, and international advocacy, supported by the newly established Research and Reporting unit, are the core of the HRA’s activities

Association for Civil Rights in Israel; www.ariga.com/humanrights/acri.shtml

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) was established in 1972 to bolster Israel's commitment to civil liberties and human rights through legalaction, education and public outreach. ACRI is a strictly nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that protects the rights of all individuals in Israel and in theoccupied territories, regardless of religion, nationality or political beliefs

Al-liqa'; www.ariga.com/humanrights/alliqa.shtml

Center for Religioous and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land Al-Liqa, a Palestinian center for religious and heritage studies in the Holy Land,was founded in Jerusalem in 1983 by a group of Christian and Muslim Palestinian Arabs. The Center has created a lively dialogue and fosteredunderstanding between the peoples of these two religions.

www.ariga.com/humanrights/amnesty.shtml

Amnesty International-Israel section Amnesty International was established in 1961 to work in the following areas:the release of prisoners of conscience; fair trials for political and other prisoners; the abolishment of torture, extra-judicial executions and the death penalty. The Israeli section was founded in 1964.

Coalition of Women for a Just Peace; www.ariga.com/humanrights/coalition.shtml

The Coalition of Women for a Just Peace is a mix of Jewish and Palestinian women (all citizens of Israel) who call upon Israel to end the occupation and negotiate a just solution.

Israeli Council for Israeli-PalestinianPeace; www.ariga.com/humanrights/council.shtml

The ICIPP is an Israeli organization supporting a peaceful solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, to be achieved through the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories occupied in 1967 and the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

International Forum For Justice and Peace in Palestine; www.ariga.com/humanrights/ifjpp.shtml

The "International Forum For Justice and Peace in Palestine" is a network of people and institutions that strongly promotes co-existence of an Israeli and a Palestinian State in the present region. It intends to do so by non-violent means, primarily by sound information and publicity in the Western world, to stop the extremist minorities on both sides of the divide.

THE GREEN LINE;www.ariga.com/humanrights/kavyarok.shtml

STUDENTS DRAW THE LINE is a movement founded inNovember 2001 by students at the Hebrew University The founders of the movement felt that the Peace Camp in Israel was unable to recover from the blow it suffered from the outbreak of violent events in the Occupied Territories and that it failed to present an alternative to the Government's policy. Members of this movement share a common awareness, namely that the Occupied Territories are a burden, not an asset.