3. Conducting interventions by the Commissioner General and the Board of Commissioners with
duty bearers from Palestinian official institutions to protect and promote human rights and
implement the recommendations provided by ICHR.
4. Enhancing the relationship between ICHR and the Palestinian civil society organizations
particularly sectorial and human rights organizations in order to coordinate the efforts to
protect and promote human rights.
5. Engaging with international human rights mechanisms (treaty-based and non-treaty based
machinery) and cooperating with UN agencies concerned about human rights. Strengthening the
ICHR’s relationship with national human rights institutions and regional and international
coalitions of human rights such as Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions, Asia
Pacific Forum, and the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC)
Board of Commissioners
Article (3)
1.
ICHR is run by a Board of Commissioners consisting of 17 to 21 members. The
Commissioners are Palestinians in the homeland and the Diaspora. They are selected and replaced
in accordance with the law, the Board of Commissioners’ bylaws and the Paris Principles
regulating the work of NHRIs.
2. The Board of Commissioners must consist of at least six members of both sexes, taking into
account the state of diversity in the Palestinian society.
3.
The term of the Commissioner’s membership in the Board of Commissioners is 5 years,
renewable only once (maximum 10 years).This arrangement applies to all Commissioners
appointed after the adoption of this amendment by the Board of Commissioners on 21 January
2021. It shall also apply retroactively to the commissioners who were appointed three years prior
to this date and whose membership had not been renewed for the first time until the date of the
amendment. In this case, the first 5year term shall start from the date of the appointment to the
Commission. The previous arrangements (3 years, extendable to a maximum of 9 years) remain
applicable to the rest of the members.
4.
The Commissioner will be informed (every 5 years) at least 90 days prior to the expiration
date of his/her membership in order to express the desire to extend the membership of the
Commissioner for another period and/or be informed of the end the membership.