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![](/files/image/US%20Department%20of%20State.jpg) | US State Department - human rights report (2014) This report covers human rights abuses during 2014. The report notes that Israeli authorities continue to apply two distinct legal systems in the West Bank, one military and one civilian, depending on whether the individual is Palestinian or an Israeli settler. For Palestinians prosecuted in the military court system, the State Department notes that the conviction rate remains above 99 percent. |
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![](/files/image/UN%20logo%20high%20resolution.png) | UN Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict (June 2015) This report highlights global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children in 23 locations, including Israel and Palestine. In 2014, the UN documented 122 cases of children from the West Bank detained by Israeli forces in which they stated they had been subjected to ill-treatment, such as beatings, hit with sticks, blindfolded, kicked and subjected to verbal abuse and threats of sexual violence. |
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![](/files/image/Shahed%20logo%20-%20Red.jpg) | MCW progress report (April 2015) This report reviews developments in the treatment of children in military detention since UNICEF concluded that "ill-treatment appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised" in 2013. The report reviews 185 testimonies and focuses on developments in the past 6 months. Although there has been some official activity including military law amendments, there has been little substantive improvement. |
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![](/files/image/UNICEF%20Report%20Logo%202.jpg) | UNICEF - Children in Military Detention - Bulletin No. 2 (February 2015) This Bulletin is UNICEF's second update since the publication of the 2013 report - Children in Israeli Military Detention - which concluded that ill-treatment appeared to be "widespread, systematic and institutionalised". In its latest update, UNICEF concludes that "reports of alleged ill-treatment of children during arrest, transfer, interrogation and detention have not significantly decreased in 2013 and 2014." |
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![](/files/image/UN%20logo%20high%20resolution.png) | UN Human Rights Committee - Concluding Observations (November 2014) In its Concluding Observations of Israel's fourth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Committee recognised Israel's security concerns but expressed concern at reports of the use of torture and other ill-treatment, including widespread, systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment of Palestinian children and reiterated the need for the audio-visual recording of all interrogations. |
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![](/files/image/ACRI%20Logo.jpg) | ACRI: One Rule Two Legal Systems (October 2014) This report outlines the nature of the legal regime currently operating in the West Bank. Two systems of law are applied in a single territory: one, a civilian legal system for Israeli citizens, and a second, a military court system for Palestinian residents. The result: institutionalized discrimination. The legal differentiation is not restricted to security or criminal matters, but touches upon almost every aspect of daily life. |
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![](/files/image/Shahed%20logo%20-%20Red.jpg) | MCW progress report: children in military custody - 2 years on (September 2014) This report reviews progress made in implementing the 40 recommendations contained in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office funded report - Children in Military Custody - prepared by a delegation of leading UK lawyers in 2012. Two years on, MCW concludes that just 2 of the UK report's 40 recommendations have been substantially implemented - or 5 per cent. |
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