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Human rights violations affecting the student population under higher-education.

Report on Israeli police/ Military Escort of school children to and from At-Tuwani

Read the report on the Israeli military escort which is supposed to accompany children from surrounding villages to their school in At-Tuwani, a village in the South Hebron Hills, in order to protect them from settler attacks. This report covers the period of the 1st of October 2009 to the 30th of October 2009.

838 Students Still Trying to Leave Gaza for Study Abroad

Once again, following the start of the academic year at many institutions of higher education around the world, some 838 Palestinian students are still waiting to leave Gaza to study abroad.The students cannot leave due to the Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip and the rigid criteria for exit via the Erez and Rafah border crossings.

BRICUP Newsletter October 2009

Read the British Committee for Universities of Palestine newsletter for July 2009 here.

Goldstone Report expresses alarm at the detention of hundreds of young children

On 15 September 2009, the Goldstone Mission published a 575 page report based on the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Report). The fact finding mission was established by the UN in April 2009, following the 23 day war in Gaza which killed over 1,400 hundred Palestinians, including 353 children.

Report on Israeli police/ Military Escort of school children to and from At-Tuwani

Read the report on the Israeli military escort which is supposed to accompany children from surrounding villages to their school in At-Tuwani, a village in the South Hebron Hills, in order to protect them from settler attacks. This report covers the period of the 1st of September 2009 to the 30th of September 2009.

Al Mezan and DCI-Palestine Report on Operation Cast Lead Child Rights Violations

You can download the report from here: http://www.mezan.org/upload/9056.pdf

Children killed during Operation Cast Lead more than half the total number of children killed in Gaza from the beginning of the Second Intifada to Operation Cast Lead.

Today, one day ahead of the presentation of the Goldstone Mission findings to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, and on the anniversary of the start of the Second Intifada, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al Mezan) and Defence for Children International – Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine) release a comprehensive report on serious child rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli military during Operation Cast Lead.


Study: 126,000 Palestinian adults, mainly women, are illiterat

Despite a decrease in the illiteracy rate by 57.6% since 1997, still there are 126,000 illiterate adults in the Palestinian territories, three-quarters of them women.


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