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UN submission - widespread, systematic and institutionalised abuse of minors in the West Bank (June 2015)

This submission analyses 200 testimonies of children held in military detention since 2013. The submission notes that ill-treatment still appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised and notes a strong link between the detention of Palestinians in the West Bank and the policy of successive Israeli governments of encouraging its citizens to move to occupied territory in violation of international law.

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.

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.

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."

Report of the Special Rapporteur on on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Makarim Wibisono (January 2015)

This report includes a section on the arrest and detention of Palestinian children. The report notes that although the Israeli authorities have implemented a number of changes to the system and no longer deny that there is a problem, the issue is now being handled a public relations problem whilst the ill-treatment and denial of basic legal rights continues.

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.

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.

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.

UN Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict (May 2014)

The report highlights global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children in 23 locations, including Israel and Palestine. In 2013, the UN documented 107 cases representing 15 per cent of the total number of children detained by the Israeli military during the year, and found evidence of cruel and degrading ill-treatment in every case. The UN noted that children are still forcibly transferred in violation of international law.

Children in Israeli military detention: MCW progress report - 12 months on (March 2014)

This report reviews progress made in implementing the 38 recommendations made by UNICEF in the report - Children in Israeli Military Detention. One year on, MCW concludes that although there have been a number of key changes in the system in recent years, 87 per cent of UNICEF's recommendations remain un-implemented and ill-treatment still appears to be "widespread, systematic and institutionalised".


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