We are proud to announce that ACRI Attorney Oded Feller has been awarded a Notable Human Rights Defenders Award by The Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights at the College of Management.
Each year the Chair grants this award to three notable human rights defenders. Each recipient receives a sum of NIS 3,000, which will be directed to a cause of her/his choosing in the broad range of human rights.
In honoring Oded, the Chair justified this worthy selection by expounding on Oded’s contributions to human rights in Israel:
- For his long-term contribution, tireless work and exemplary manner in which he promotes human rights through his work at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, as well as in cooperation with other human rights organizations.
- For his work to promote human rights in general and in the struggle he wages to protect human rights in the field of citizenship and residency.
- In fighting for human rights in the field of citizenship and residency, Oded works to clarify the status of family members of citizens and residents; confronts unique issues relating to the status of Arabs in Israel, including East Jerusalem residents; deals with the status of non-citizens who are in Israel for humanitarian reasons; conducts activities relating to migrant workers, activities relating to refugees and asylum seekers and activities relating to unaccompanied minors; addresses issues relating to the transparency of immigration policy, and conducts activities relating to bureaucratic barriers in the field of migration and status.
- All this activity has earned Oded a reputation as an expert in issues of citizenship and residency in Israel in the courts, the Knesset, the Interior Ministry, the media and the diplomatic community. He lectures extensively on these topics at academic conferences and seminars judges.
Oded has decided to donate his NIS 3,000 award to the Eritrean Women’s Center.
Congratulations Oded!
Attorney Oded Feller serves as the attorney in charge of addressing human rights infringements by the Interior Ministry’s Population Registry. Mr. Feller is an expert in issues concerning immigration, citizenship and residency status in Israel. Mr. Feller joined ACRI in 2001, after graduating from the Human Rights Program at the Tel Aviv University, where he received his LL.B. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hotline for Migrant Workers between 2004-2010, and on the Board of Directors of “Israeli Children,” an organization working to promote citizenship for children under threat of deportation.
