Bisan Center for Research and Development
Bisan Center for Research and Development is a Palestinian non-governmental organisation that seeks to enhance Palestinians’ resilience in order to contribute to building a Palestinian civil, democratic, effective and active community. The organisation offers support to the poor and marginalized, workers, women, and youth in the Palestinian society by working to advance their socio-economic and political rights. It advocates for the Palestinian people’s rights through the production and application of critical development knowledge and the building of partnerships with progressive bodies and entities.
Human rights defenders in the OPT are subjected to acts of harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement, stigmatisation, abductions, long periods of arbitrary detention usually under administrative detention orders, illegal searches of their homes and offices and killings. Many of the violations are state-sanctioned, or if not sanctioned at the highest levels of the Israeli political and military establishment, then condoned by the ongoing policy of impunity which permeates the military and judicial system in relation to the OPT. In some instances Israeli settlers have also been the perpetrators of violence against human rights defenders.
