Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR, Arabic: المركز الفلسطيني لحقوق الإنسان‎‎) is an independent Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City, founded and directed by Raji Sourani. The non-governmental organization was established in 1995 by a group of Palestinian lawyers and human rights activists and receives funding from governmental, non-governmental, and religious sources.

The Centre states on its website that its founding principles are to:

In its philosophy statement, PCHR repudiates the Oslo Accords as 'fatally flawed' and adds:

Moreover, the Oslo accords failed to address the essential elements of the Palestinian question -- the right to self-determination, the right to an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, the right of return for Palestinian refugees and the removal of Israeli settlements from the OPT. In light of this wide-ranging disregard for the human rights of the Palestinian people, the Centre resolved to continue its work to protect human rights from ongoing violations by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

The group has consultative and affiliative status with a number of Arab, European and United Nations' organizations and has received the 1996 French Republic Award on Human Rights and the 2002 Bruno Kreisky Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Area of Human Rights. The group has repeatedly called for a ban on capital punishment in the Palestinian territories, which is supported by a majority of Palestinians. The group has also released reports relating to violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel.Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, was denied a permit to exit the Gaza Strip to attend a human rights conference in September 2008.

According to the site's funding page, most of the Centre's funding comes from the Sweden Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists, the Ford Foundation (USA), NOVIB (Holland), Open Society Fund (USA), Christian Aid (UK), Dan Church Aid in Denmark, Grassroots International (USA), European Commission, Irish Aid in Ireland, Kvinna Till Kvinna in Sweden, Al Quds Association Malaga in Spain, the Royal Danish Representative Office, and the Representative Office of Norway.

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