Shawan Jabarin | |
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شعوان جبارين | |
Born | Shawan Rateb Abdallah Jabarin شعوان راتب عبد الله جبارين 1960 Sa'ir, West Bank |
Nationality | Palestinian |
Alma mater | Birzeit University Irish Center for Human Rights |
Shawan Rateb Abdallah Jabarin (born 1960 in Sa'ir, West Bank) is the general director of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization in the West Bank.[1] From 2005 to 2009, Jabarin was a member of the board of directors of Defense for Children International – Palestine, the national section of the Geneva-based Defense for Children International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1979.[2]
Respected as a human-rights activist by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and various Palestinian human-rights groups, and condemned by many Israeli and other organizations,[who?] Jabarin has been described as "an activist to some, a terrorist to others."[3][editorializing] He has won multiple human-rights awards and contributed to such journals as Foreign Policy.[4] Israel's Supreme Court has described him as a "senior activist" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).[5][6] Jabarin has been barred from entering Jordan on security grounds,[6] and was banned from international travel by Israel between 2006 and 2013.[citation needed]