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36 total results foundAuthor: Defence for Children International - Palestine Section Title: Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention Summary: The report is the culmination of four year's work by DCI, with the support of the European Union, focusing on verifying reports of ill-treatment and torture of children in the Israeli military detention system. The findings of the report are based on 311 sworn affidavits taken from children between January 2008 and January 2012. The report also includes: - An interview with a lawyer who represents children in the military courts; - An interview with the director of the YMCA rehabilitation programme; - An interview with an Israeli soldier, courtesy of Breaking the Silence; - A Psychological opinion into the effects of military detention on children; and - 25 case studies taken from child-detainees. The report found that there is a systematic pattern of ill-treatment, and in some cases torture, of children held in the military detention system, with the majority of the abuse occurring during the first 48 hours Details: Jerusalem: Defence for Children International Palestine, 2012. 144p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 28, 2013 at: http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/report_0.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Palestine Keywords: Juvenile Detention (Palestine) Shelf Number: 131493 |
Author: Defence for Children International - Palestine Section Title: Solitary confinement for Palestinian children in Israeli military detention Summary: Rising numbers of Palestinian children are being subjected to solitary confinement for interrogation purposes in Israeli detention, according to a new report from Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine). In 21.4 percent of cases recorded by DCI-Palestine in 2013, children detained in the Israeli military detention system reported undergoing solitary confinement as part of the interrogation process. This represents an increase of two percent from 2012. DCI-Palestine collected 98 sworn affidavits from Palestinian children aged 12 to 17 in 2013. "The use of isolation against Palestinian children as an interrogation tool is a growing trend," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program director at DCI-Palestine. "This is a violation of children's rights and the international community must demand justice and accountability." DCI-Palestine's research overwhelmingly suggests that the use of solitary confinement against Palestinian child detainees in the Israeli military detention system is employed almost solely for interrogation purposes. The apparent purpose is to obtain a confession or to gather intelligence on other individuals. Globally, children and juvenile offenders are often held in isolation either as a disciplinary measure or to separate them from adult populations. The use of solitary confinement by Israeli authorities does not appear to be related to any disciplinary, protective, or medical rationale or justification. During a period of just under two years, from January 2012 to December 2013, DCI-Palestine collected 40 affidavits from child detainees that detailed solitary confinement. Children held in solitary confinement spent an average of 10 days in isolation. The longest period of confinement documented in a single case was 29 days in 2012, and 28 days in 2013. In 2012, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, condemned Israel's use of solitary confinement against Palestinian children, saying it "flagrantly violates international human rights standards." "This pattern of abuse by Israel is grave. It is inhumane, cruel, degrading, and unlawful, and, most worryingly, it is likely to adversely affect the mental and physical health of underage detainees," Falk said. Palestinian child detainees are held in solitary confinement and interrogated by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) at interrogation and detention centers located inside Israel, including Petah Tikva detention center, Kishon detention center, and Shikma prison in Ashkelon. The transfer of Palestinian child detainees from the Occupied Palestinian territories to prisons inside Israel violates Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of detainees out of the occupied territory. DCI-Palestine calls on Israeli military court judges to exclude all evidence obtained by force or coercion, and demands that the practice of using solitary confinement on children in Israeli detention facilities be recognized as a form of torture and stopped immediately. The report demands that the prohibition of solitary confinement against juveniles be enshrined in law and recommends that Israeli authorities implement effective measures to ensure that perpetrators of children's rights violations are held to account. Details: Jerusalem: Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine), 2014. 12p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 4, 2014 at http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/report_doc_solitary_confinement_report_2013_final_29apr2014.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Palestine Keywords: Human Rights Abuses Shelf Number: 132404 |
Author: Cragin, Kim Title: What Factors Cause Youth to Reject Violent Extremism? Results of an Exploratory Analysis in the West Bank Summary: Continued terrorist attacks and the involvement of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq have prompted a surge of interest among policymakers, law enforcement, journalists, and academics on both sides of the Atlantic on the topic of terrorist radicalization. Many of the factors that push or pull individuals toward radicalization are in dispute within the expert community. Instead of examining the factors that lead to radicalization and the commission of terrorist acts, this report takes a new approach. What Factors Cause Youth to Reject Violent Extremism? Results of an Exploratory Analysis in the West Bank empirically addresses the topic of why youth reject violent extremism. To do this, the authors focus on the Palestinian West Bank. The report begins with a theoretical model and then tests this model with data gathered through structured interviews and a survey. For this study, ten semistructured interviews were conducted with politicians from Hamas and Fatah in 2012. Along with these interviews, the authors conducted a survey among 600 youth (ages 18-30) who lived in Hebron, Jenin, and Ramallah. The overarching findings from this effort demonstrate that (1) rejecting violent extremism, for residents of the West Bank, is a process with multiple stages and choices within each stage; (2) family plays a greater role than friends in shaping attitudes toward nonviolence; (3) demographics do not have a significant impact on attitudes toward nonviolence; and (4) opposing violence in theory is distinct from choosing not to engage in violence. Details: Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2015. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 5, 2015 at: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1100/RR1118/RAND_RR1118.pdf Year: 2015 Country: Palestine Keywords: Counterterrorism Shelf Number: 136954 |
Author: Muller, Catherine Title: Violence against Women in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Military Operation Protective Edge Summary: Following the Israeli military Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, this reports presents the findings of a study initiated by ActionAid and Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza) on violence against women (VAW) in the Gaza Strip, defined as 'any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life'. This study had two aims: First, to paint a wider picture of violence against women across Gaza after the last Israeli military operation, complementing existing qualitative work on subsets of the population. Second, to draw conclusions about what services could be offered to better protect and support survivors of VAW in Gaza, and what interventions can be planned that tackle attitudes and trigger behavioural changes in order to decrease its incidence and prevalence. A survey with a representative sample of women in the Gaza Strip and qualitative interviews, focus groups and roundtable discussions were carried out to learn more about the types of VAW in public and private spaces in Gaza; incidence and prevalence of VAW in public and private spheres; perception of the nature, causes and consequences of VAW; existing avenues of support to survivors of VAW; and to understand its link to military violence in Gaza. The fieldwork for this study took place between April and July 2015; 37 social workers spoke to 440 women who responded to a quantitative questionnaire, and 332 women, 130 men, 7 key community informants and 28 members of civil society organisations in focus group discussions, roundtables and individual interviews to help us gain a wider picture about the types, prevalence and frequency of violence that women aged 17 and above experience across the Gaza Strip. Details: Alianza por la Solidaridad & Action Aid, 2015. 88p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 22, 2016 at: http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/StudyVAWGazaafterIsraeliMilitaryOperationProtectionEdge2014ApSActionAid.pdf Year: 2015 Country: Palestine Keywords: Domestic Violence Shelf Number: 138373 |
Author: Defence for Children International - Palestine Section Title: Children in the Street: The Palestinian Case Summary: The phenomenon of street children is considered to be the most important problem facing children today in both the developed and developing world. Accordingly, this phenomenon needs to be addressed and solved, lest it continue to threaten societies around the world. Though some variance exists, international organizations and bodies estimate that the global street child population ranges between 100 - 150 million children. The variance in population size is due to a number of factors: first, there is no common definition of "street children" that is endorsed by all the relevant actors; second, national governments often conceal the extent of the phenomenon in their respective countries, in order to avoid potential recrimination for not doing enough to address the issue; and third, the street child population is fluid, with street children travelling from one city to another and frequently not possessing identi.cation papers or birth certifcates. The phenomenon of street children is predominantly urban. The strong family ties and informal system of social protection upheld in rural areas usually keeps children off the streets, although many street children in the cities have migrated from rural areas to the cities individually or along with their families. There are a number of major factors that are believed to cause, or exacerbate, the problem of street children. They include: 1. Economic factors 2. Family relations 3. Poor education level of parents 4. Large family size 5. Migration from the villages to the city 6. Wars and natural disasters In Palestine, as in other locations, the size and extent of the street children phenomenon expands or contracts according to how one defines the problem. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) there are three categories of street children: children inhabiting streets, children working on the streets, and the children of street families. In order to analyse the extent of this phenomenon in Palestine, a pilot study was conducted in order to identify factors affecting the phenomenon and the characteristics of street children in Palestine. The study focused on investigating a group of children on the streets in different locations throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem. The data for the study was gathered through a questionnaire, which was based on a set of indicators and variables corresponding to the objectives of the study. The study aimed at addressing two main questions: - Does the phenomenon of street children exist in Palestine? - Who are the street children and what are their characteristics? The study targeted 120 children (below 18), including 74 children in the West Bank and 46 children in the Gaza Strip. The sample children were present in the following areas: around Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints located between the different Palestinian towns and cities; near border crossings (e.g. Jericho and Rafah); at traf.c lights; and in or near markets. The "street children" phenomenon in Palestine manifests itself through the presence of children in the streets for long hours, working, wandering, begging, loitering or playing. However, these children do not sleep on the streets. Their families are known to them, they have homes to go to, and they all maintain some level of relationship with their families. Based on the .ndings of the survey, it would be very rare to .nd a Palestinian child who had completely severed relations with his/her family. Of the total of 120 children surveyed, only ten children do not sleep regularly in their parents' home. However, this does not indicate that these children sleep on the streets: over half (6) sleep in the houses of their relatives. As the absence of housing and family ties are two of the main criteria in many of the de.nitions of "street children", the concept that most properly applies to the Palestinian case is "children in the street," rather than "street children." This being said, however, there are small numbers of children who do meet a strict de.nition of "street children", but the number of these children is insuf.cient to classify it a phenomenon. For example, of the 120 surveyed children, only 4 do not sleep regularly in their family home or with relatives: 1 sleeps in a school, 1 sleeps in a deserted place, and 2 sleep in public places. One of the key characteristics of children in the street in Palestine is that the majority work. Globally, child labour is believed to be a major issue related to the phenomenon of street children and a crosscutting relationship has been noted, where some street children are working children and some working children are street children. Child labour in Palestine is clearly linked to the poor economic situation brought about, primarily, by Israeli occupation policies. The annual report of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) indicates that economic hardship is the main factor forcing families to send their children to work. According to PCBS, 71% of children in the labour market between the ages of 5 - 17 years work out of economic necessity. The factors affecting the existence of children in the street in Palestine as well as the factors affecting children while in the street are similar to those affecting children in many parts of the world (e.g. economic issues, difficulties in the home or with education, etc.) While not all children who qualify as "children in the streets" in Palestine are vulnerable to direct violence and exploitation, it is extremely important that those factors that do expose children to violence and exploitation be addressed as a means of eradicating the phenomenon of children in the street in Palestine. Details: Defence for Children International, 2007. 64p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 9, 2017 at: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/864C6E78862058D9492572D600052C95-Full_Report.pdf Year: 2007 Country: Palestine Keywords: Begging Shelf Number: 131173 |
Author: Human Rights Watch Title: Abusive System: Failures of Criminal Justice in Gaza Summary: Abusive System: Failures of Criminal Justice in Gaza highlights serious human rights violations by Hamas security services in the Gaza Strip and the failure of the criminal justice system to protect detainees from arbitrary arrest and torture or to punish those responsible for severe abuses. The report is based on interviews with victims and relatives of victims of abuses as well as lawyers and judges, and reviews of case files and court verdicts that included evidence of rights violations. The report documents that Hamas's Internal Security service and civil police have frequently subjected Palestinians to arbitrary arrest, incommunicado detention, and torture. Prosecutors and judges have ignored detainees' due process rights in such cases. With few exceptions, security services have enjoyed impunity from Hamas authorities and the courts for such abuses. The report's case studies show that victims of serious abuses include not only members of Hamas's political rival, Fatah, but also persons suspected of common crimes and detained by civil police. In the light of evidence that the Hamas authorities have executed men whom courts had convicted in part on the basis of confessions secured through torture, Abusive System calls on Hamas to immediately impose a moratorium on the death penalty. Hamas should urgently reform the criminal justice system to end warrantless arrests, ensure that detainees have prompt access to lawyers, end prosecutions of civilians in military courts, and hold accountable security officials who commit violations. Details: New York: HRW, 2012. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 8, 2017 at: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iopt1012ForUpload_0.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Palestine Keywords: Death Penalty Shelf Number: 129669 |
Author: Human Rights Watch Title: Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent: Arbitrary Arrest and Torture Under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas Summary: In the 25 years since the Oslo Accords gave Palestinians a degree of self-rule over parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, their right to peacefully protest and criticize their own authorities has been met with routine repression. Both the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza have carried out scores of arbitrary arrests in recent years of journalists, demonstrators, student activists, and social media commentators, often targeting supporters of one another as the Fatah-Hamas feud deepened. Relying primarily on overly broad laws that criminalize activity such as insulting "higher authorities," causing "sectarian strife," or "harming revolutionary unity," both authorities use detention to punish dissidents and to deter them and others from further activism. Security forces in both the West Bank and Gaza routinely use torture, including by forcing detainees into painful stress positions for hours at a time, including with men who never face trial or serve sentences and are released in a matter of days. This report, based on an investigation of 86 cases of alleged abuse, documents how these systematic abuses are in contravention to legal obligations imposed through Palestine's accession to major international human rights treaties since 2014. Effective impunity for serious abuse is the norm, even though the security apparatuses have in place mechanisms to receive citizen complaints of abuse and investigate them. Human Rights Watch urges the respective foreign powers that provide support to PA and Hamas security forces to suspend assistance to those agencies implicated in widespread arbitrary arrests and torture until authorities curb those practices and hold perpetrators accountable. Details: New York: HRW, 2018. 159p., app. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed Dec. 6, 2018 at: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/palestine1018_web4.pdf Year: 2018 Country: Palestine Keywords: Arrests Shelf Number: 153931 |
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Independent Evaluation Unit Title: Final Independent Project Evaluation of the "Supporting the establishment of evidence-based drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation system for the Palestine National Rehabilitation Centre" Summary: The State of Palestine consists of the non-contiguous West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip with a densely-packed population. Its unique socioeconomic context is characterized by political and economic tensions and has created conditions that facilitate the spread of illicit and prescription drug abuse. UNODC Programme Office in the State of Palestine (POPSE) has provided technical support to the State of Palestine since 2005, in developing a comprehensive, integrated and safe response to the problem of drug dependence and for the continued prevention and care of HIV. Since 2014, under the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) fund, POPSE supported the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) under the Project PSEY13; "Supporting the establishment-based drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation system for the Palestine National Rehabilitation Centre (PNRC)". PSEY13 was implemented by POPSE, with oversight provided by UNODC Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA), and Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, Division for Operations, UNODC Headquarters (HQ). This assistance consisted of supporting the main objective of PSEY13, i.e. a comprehensive system of drug dependence treatment carefully established and integrated into the health system in Palestine, with strengthened institutional and human resource capacity to provide evidence-based harm reduction and drug dependence treatment services at the PNRC. PSEY13 was in line with UNODC's Thematic Sub Programme 5 on Health and Livelihoods (Drugs and HIV) and was formally launched in January 2014. It was extended in 2018 to February 2019 when it will come to an end. PSEY13 had a budget of USD 622,913.00 (expenditure to December 2018; USD611,913: 98%). Purpose, scope and methodology of the evaluation The purpose and scope of the final Independent Project Evaluation of PSEY13 was to assess its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, human rights and gender mainstreaming, and partnerships and cooperation. It was also to identify areas of improvement and derive recommendations and lessons learned from measuring its achievements, as well as needs of further assistance for potential future projects with the Palestinian Government, as well as for organizational learning and decision-making purposes. The main users of the evaluation results are POPSE, ROMENA, KOICA, the Palestinian MoH and the PNRC. The eleven Core Learning Partners (CLPs) were identified by POPSE as particularly relevant in the evaluation process, in e.g. reviewing and commenting on the TOR and the evaluation questions, as well as the draft evaluation report. The remaining stakeholders and informants were invited for interviews, including the CLPs. A participatory, age, gender sensitive and gender inclusive as well as a mixed method approach comprising a desk review of project documents, interviews, focus groups and observation was used. Secondary data sources were cross checked and triangulated through the collected primary research data. Desk review of relevant documents, interviews (13 males, 8 females) and focus groups (3 males, 6 females) and site observation at the PNRC were conducted during the mission in September 2018. The evaluation covered the entire timeframe of the project (January 2014 to September 2018, end of evaluation mission), focussing on Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The evaluation was conducted by one external, independent female evaluator, qualified to doctoral level with two decades of public health and clinical experience in drug prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, and of UNODC evaluation. Details: Vienna: UNODC, 2019. 71p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 13, 2019 at: https://www.unodc.org/documents/evaluation/Independent_Project_Evaluations/2019/PSEY13_Final_Independent_Project_Evaluation_Jan_2019.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Palestine Keywords: Drug Abuse and Addiction Shelf Number: 154939 |