Adalah’s Third Annual Law Students’ Conference

10th-12th October 2008

Law in Action in Field of Human Rights

Conference Program
Supported by the European Commission

Friday, 10th October

10:00 - Arrive at Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salaam, near Jerusalem; room assignments

11:00 – 12:00 - Opening and welcome by Adalah and Gianmatteo Arena, Head of Operations,
Delegation of the European Commission to the State of Israel; introductions of all participants

12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch

13:30 – 16:00 - Field trip to the Separation Wall

16:30 – 18:30 - Return to Neve Shalom and rest period

18:30 – 19:30 - Dinner

19:45 – 20:45 - Lecture by Professor Ronen Shamir, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law: The
influence of Adalah and human rights organizations on Israeli legal discourse

21:00 – 21:45 - Screening of a documentary film from B’Tselem’s “Shooting back” project.
Presentations by Oren Yakobvitch and Yoav Gross, Video Advocacy department of B’Tselem.

Saturday, 11th October

09:00 – 10:00 - Breakfast

10:00 – 11:30 – Panel: Litigation and social action in land and housing rights cases in the
mixed Arab-Jewish cities

– Attorney Amir Badran: The legal struggle against the policy of home demolitions in
the mixed cities
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– Mr. Arafat Ismail: The neighborhood of Dahmash as an example of the suffering of
Arab citizens of Israel in the mixed cities

Session moderator: Mr. Salah Muhsin, Adalah’s Media Coordinator

11:30 – 11:45 - Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15 - Legal workshops

– Religious and cultural rights: Adalah Attorney Adel Badeer

– Prisoners and detainees rights: Adalah Attorney Abeer Baker
– Human rights under the Occupation: Adalah Attorney Fatmeh El-‘Ajou
– The right to education and social rights in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in
the Naqab: Adalah Attorney Morad el-Sana
– The rights of people with special needs: Attorney Abbas Abbas (Al-Manarah) and Mr.
Mohammed Diab

13:15 – 15:00 - Lunch

15:00 – 17:00 - Human Rights Fair

Representatives of Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations displaying and
distributing literature and answering questions of the law student participants about their work

October 2000 Killings

17:00 – 18:00
1. The film “Lama Zafouk”, produced by the I’lam Center (3 minutes)
October landmarks: 2000-2008
2. Slideshow of legal developments from the moment of the killings until the present day
3. Open discussion with guest Jamila A’kkawi, the sister of Omar A’kkawi, one of the
October 2000 victims

18:00 – 19:00 - Seminar on October 2000: Eight years of struggle and five years on from
the publication of the Or Commission report, lessons and conclusions
– Attorney Shlomo Cohen, former President of the Israel Bar Association
– Attorney Smadar Ben Natan, Criminal defense and human rights lawyer
– Dr. Mahoud Yazbak, Senior lecturer in Middle East History, Haifa University, Board
of Directors of Adalah; former spokesperson of the Committee of the Victims'
Families (October 2000)
– Attorney Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah

Session moderator: Attorney Wael Rabi, Control Committee of Adalah

19:00 – 20:00 - Dinner

20:00 – 21:00 - Lecture by Attorney Barak Kalev, Director of the Legal Department of the
Movement for Quality Government in Israel

21:30 - Entertainment and recreation

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 Sunday, 12th October

10:00 – 11:00 - Breakfast

11:00 – 12:30 – HR Law in Action – Legal Clinics at the Universities

– Attorney Durgham Saif, The Legal Clinic on Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Haifa
University
– Attorney Ronit Harmati-Elfren, Director of Legal Clinics at Haifa University
– Attorney Munir Nusseibeh, Director of the Human Rights Legal Clinic, Al-Quds
University
– Attorney Itai Hermilin, Criminal Law Legal Clinic, Tel Aviv University

Session moderator: Attorney Auni Banna, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel

12:30 – 12:45 – HR Law in Action – Students' Experiences in the Legal Clinics

- Fadi As’Adalah, student at the Haifa University Prisoners’ Legal Clinic

- Trainee attorney Muhannad Naser, Tel Aviv University
- Noura Akidak, Al-Quds University

Session moderator: Haneen Naamnih, trainee attorney in Adalah

14:30 – 16:00 – Lunch and closing