This is an executive summary of DWRC report on Discrimination Between Male and Female Workers in Employment and Occupation which is based on the results of a field survey in various areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
A Generation Denied, is the fourth in an annual series of reports on Israeli violations of Palestinian children's rights. The rights based approach incorporated into the report provides for an in-depth and comprehensive approach to the violations of Palestinian children's rights stemming from Israeli occupation policies.
An analysis of human rights violations against Palestinian children in 2005
While the overall level of violence decreased in 2005, Israeli military activities continued to neglect, and in some cases deliberately abuse, the fundamental rights of Palestinian children, breaching rights guaranteed under international human rights law.
This report documents the extent of settler attacks perpetrated against Palestinian children in the Occupied Territory. While settler violence has steadily increased since the beginning of the second Intifada in September 2000, the start of 2008 has marked a notable increase in settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, including children.
This report illustrates the scale and range of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law perpetrated by the Israeli army during Operation Cast Lead. It stresses that these violations follow decades of impunity for previous violations and demonstrates how eight months on, in the context of the Gaza blockade and continued military occupation, Palestinian children remain unable to rebuild their lives.
Israeli forces kill three armed Palestinians and injure eight civilians in the Gaza Strip. In addition, 48 Palestinians were injured in the West Bank. Settler violence continues. Communities in the Jordan Valley continue to be affected by demolitions and evictions. Also this week, access of fire brigades to a community behind the Barrier delayed. In Gaza, people continue to experience power cuts as high as 12 hours per day throughout the week.
This year, Defence for Children International-Palestine Section celebrates the 20th anniversary of its establishment in 1991. This celebration holds special meaning for the section’s Board, General Assembly and staff, as it is the culmination of a journey that has seen us transform, through many endeavours and achievements, from modest beginnings into one of the most important Palestinian human rights organisations operating in the field of children’s rights.
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and injured 37 others throughout the West Bank. Also in the West Bank, settler attacks on Palestinian trees continue. Large settlement outpost to be dismantled. In Gaza, one Palestinian farmer injured. Movement through Rafah Crossing remains limited. Gaza crossings update.
On the occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, in partnership with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights held a workshop entitled “Towards ratification of the convention against torture: a step to break the cycle of torture and poverty” in Al Salam Restaurant in Gaza. The workshop was well attended by Dr. Ahmed Abu Tawahina, Director General of the GCMHP, Mr. Sol Taka Hashi, the vice president of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Mr.
This report documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force. It contains the testimonies of 33 children who bear witness to the abuse they received at the hands of soldiers from the moment of arrest through to an often violent interrogation. Children report being painfully shackled for hours on end, kicked, beaten and threatened, some with death, until they provide confessions, some written in Hebrew, a language they do not speak or understand.
