Issam Aruri is the General Director of the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC). He is a founding member of the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which is a coalition of 140 Palestinian civil society organizations that work on different developmental and humanitarian sectors and is currently chair of the PNGO Board of Directors. Mr. Aruri is a member at the Board of Commissioners of the Independent Commission for Human Rights – Palestine (ICHR). He is also a founding member of the Palestinian Human Rights Council (PHROC), the Coalition for the Monitoring of Public Freedoms, and other Palestinian coalitions.