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Discrimination against Women under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas
The following report examines the degree to which the Palestinian governing authorities in the West Bank and Gaza adhere to CEDAW. Findings indicate their acute failure to protect women’s rights within both legal codes and cultural practices. Even in cases where legal codes guarantee certain women’s rights, laws are either not enforced
or inconsistently enforced and very few categories of rights receive complete protection. For example, in 2011 the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) published an extensive document entitled “National Strategy to Combat Violence Against Women 2011-2019.” This document is an impressive acknowledgement of women’s rights violations, but despite the authorities’ ostensible intentions to counteract violence against women, the problems outlined remain rampant.
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Hidden Injustices
This report highlights the human rights violations regularly committed by the Palestinian government authorities. These include arbitrary detention, torture and cruel punishment, violation of the freedom of expression and the freedoms of the press, violation of the freedom of religion and minority rights, and violation of the rights of women and children. The EU and the US share a guiding principle that all nations should uphold and affirm the human rights of each individual, wherever they may reside in the world. As critical sustainers of the Palestinian Authority’s leadership through the provision of vast quantities of annual aid, how much more so, then, ought the EU and the US require accountability of the PA?
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A Human Rights Approach to the Perpetuated Palestinian Refugee Crisis
5-6 million Palestinians who have inherited the status of ‘refugee’ living today throughout the Middle East are, for the most part, condemned to living lives of abject poverty. The policies of the Arab nations discriminate against Palestinian refugees, unjustly trapping them in an economic and social underclass in which they do not enjoy equal access to civil rights, economic and social privileges. As long as Palestinian refugees are treated as pawns in the Middle East conflict, with their interests held hostage to distant promises of a permanent peace agreement, they will continue to pay the highest price.
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Hamas & the International Human Rights Law
This paper first determined that Hamas, as a quasi-state actor, is bound by International Human Rights Law (IHRL). Not only is the purpose of IHRL served by applying it to all international actors, but international law affirmatively obligates in particular quasi-state actors—entities that have significant control and influence over a population—to comply with IHRL. Second, this paper discussed statehood under international law and the consequences should a terrorist organization become the governing entity of a recognized state, including granting immunity to terrorist leaders, justifying terrorism, and undermining the international community’s ability to firmly and decisively combat terrorism.
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Reassesing UNRWA
This report analyzes the contrasting histories and track records of UNRWA and UNHCR. UNRWA’s original mission has been fatally compromised by a combination of systemic corruption and intervention into the internal political affairs of host countries. Most recently, this has included growing acquiescence, if not outright support, of ideological hostility to Israel and regional terrorism. By comparison, UNHCR remains faithful to its original mission, demonstrating a track record of substantive assistance to refugee communities. Therefore, we recommend the dissolution of UNRWA by its absorption, where useful, into UNHCR.
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Freedom of Religion - A human rights-based approach to discrimination against religious minorities in the Palestinian Authority
This report focuses on the religious freedom of different religious minority groups under the rule of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Gaza. These areas were officially governed by a unity government consisting of both Fatah and Hamas. In 2014 the PA signed and ratified 15 international conventions dealing with, among other issues, the right to freedom of religion. The government is therefore obliged to grant people living in areas under the PA’s control the freedoms enshrined in these conventions.
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Radical Islam's Ethnic Cleansing: 2014
Through displacement, persecution and murder, radical Islam has and is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the middle East. Specifically focusing on ISIS, this fact sheet exposes the horrific actions of radical Islam among ethnic groups in 2014.