Palestinian Civil and Political Rights Content in the British Media Speech for the Main News Websites

Abu Zaydeh, Hatem; Saqer Alzaeem, Ibrahim

doi:10.22096/hr.2026.1988184.1556

Palestinian Civil and Political Rights Content in the British Media Speech for the Main News Websites

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

Hatem Abu Zaydeh ¹

Ibrahim Saqer Alzaeem ²

¹ Associate Professor, Palm Strategic Initiatives Centre, Gaza, Palestine.

² Associate Professor, Palm Strategic Initiatives Centre, Gaza, Palestine, Palestine-Malaysia.

10.22096/hr.2026.1988184.1556

Abstract

The study aims to identify the Palestinian civil and political rights content in the press speech of the main media websites in the United Kingdom between March 2022 and August 2022. A tool was developed with the civil and political rights as per the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16th 1966 and effected on March 23rd 1976. To obtain the results; frequencies, averages, and percentages were used. The results show that the right to equality has the highest percentage (22.82%); followed by the right to life (18.96%); then –in a very close percentage- came other rights: economic, cultural, social, and cultural rights (18.94). the following right was the right to free expression (11.65%) and the freedom of movement (09.73%). All except other rights are essential civil rights. On the other hand, the rights: elections and right to be elected, freedom to protest and hold peaceful demonstration, and right to work in public jobs received (0.50%), (0.90%), and (1.10%) respectively. This shows that these political rights received the lowest percentages.

Keywords

Palestinian Rights Content

Electronic Media Websites

Civil Rights

Political Rights

United Kingdom

Subjects

Human Rights

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