Palestine / Israel - Latest Publications

On 17 July 2016, the Israeli Central Criminal Court issued a verdict sentencing Muawiya Alqam, a 15-year-old from Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, to six and a half years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 26,000 shekels (about 6,750$). Muawiya was violently arrested in 2015 and deprived of his basic fair trial rights, a discriminatory treatment applied to Palestinians only. He is currently amongst the hundreds of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons. "Such sentences are oppressive against our children. We should not remain silent. Our children have a right to live freely and to have dignity like other children in the world", said Muawiya's father.

Israel: Cruel and Discriminatory Treatment of 12 and 15-year-old Palestinians

Israel: UN Group Says Detention of "Hares Boys" For Stone Throwing is Arbitrary and Discriminatory

Israel - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Ratified on 03.10.1991
Optional Protocol: No

Last State report: 14.10.2013 (4th)
Last concluding observations: 20.11.2015 (3rd)

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Ratified on 03.10.1991
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

Last State report: 15.02.2015 (5th)
Last concluding observations: 23.06.2009 (4th)

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 01.2013 (2nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No

Palestine - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

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Convention against Torture (CAT)

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International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

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National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR)

Last review: 03.2009
Next review: -