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05 September 2025<\/p>\n
GENEVA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The sanctions imposed by the US Government on three prominent and well-respected Palestinian human rights groups are completely unacceptable and should be withdrawn, UN Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk said today.<\/p>\n The US sanctions announced on Thursday target Al-Haq group, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, in relation to their support of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. These measures follow other sanctions imposed by the US Government in June on renowned Palestinian NGO Addameer.<\/p>\n \u201cFor decades now, these NGOs have been performing vital human rights work, particularly on accountability for human rights violations,\u201d the High Commissioner said. \u201cThe sanctions will have a chilling effect not only on civil society in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, but potentially globally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe work of civil society in documenting violations and engaging with international accountability mechanisms is all the more important when international humanitarian and human rights laws are being violated systematically in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,\u201d T\u00fcrk said.<\/p>\n He added that sanctions against such human rights NGOs \u201conly deepen impunity, silence victims\u2019 voices and encourage a climate of continued commission of violations and international crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch attacks on NGOs working to promote the respect for human rights run directly counter to respect for the rule of law and other values which the US has long stood for and promoted,\u201d the High Commissioner said.<\/p>\n \u201cI urge the US Government to withdraw immediately these sanctions, as well as the ones imposed earlier on the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, and on multiple Judges and Prosecutors of the ICC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 05 September 2025 GENEVA\u00a0\u2013 The sanctions imposed by the US Government on three prominent and well-respected Palestinian human rights groups are completely unacceptable and should be withdrawn, UN Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk said today. The US sanctions announced on Thursday target Al-Haq group, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1825],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,6985,2005,1741,5362],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-310945","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-office-of-the-united-nations-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-ohchr","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-accountability","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-ngo-civil-society","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310971,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310945\/revisions\/310971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=310945"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=310945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}