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Titolo: RIGHTS:  Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW

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RIGHTS:  Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Nov 5 (IPS) - Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and 
denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and 
soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
This is in flagrant violation of Israel’s obligations as a signatory to 
the UN Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination 
Against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW is the first international human rights 
treaty devoted to the rights of women.
According to the Convention, discrimination against women represents a 
violation of the principles of equality and human dignity, and is 
considered an obstacle to the participation of women, on an equal 
footing with men, in the political, social, economic and cultural life 
of their country.
The Convention obliges all state parties to take appropriate measures, 
legislative and non-legislative, to prohibit all forms of discrimination 
against women.
A report recently submitted by the Palestinian Women’s Centre for Legal 
Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) in Ramallah says women and children bear 
specific consequences of the Israeli occupation.
"Due to the pressures on Palestinian society to deal with the more 
immediate humanitarian issues as a result of the conflict, women’s needs 
are either ignored or set aside," states the report.
"This occurs, even as the absence of male members of their families due 
to prolonged incarceration, often without trial, and/or extra-judicial 
killings, require them to take on more responsibilities in the home and 
for their families.
"Women and children also constitute the largest proportion of refugees 
and displaced persons due to disproportionate use of force and wanton 
destruction of property to achieve political objectives," adds the report.
Female Palestinian prisoners are also discriminated against. According 
to WCLAC Palestinian female prisoners are threatened with rape, 
subjected to torture and brutal interrogations and denied the right to 
fair trials unlike their Israeli counterparts.
They are also given poor quality food and incarcerated in cold 
unhygienic cells where their needs during menstruation are ignored. 
Those with small children are regularly denied visits by the fathers of 
their children.
But the ultimate discrimination is the denial of family reunification 
permits by the Israeli authorities. Palestinians resident in Israel or 
East Jerusalem who marry residents of the West Bank are denied the right 
to live with their spouses in Israel or East Jerusalem. Families who 
have done so have been forcibly broken up and the spouses expelled.
Israel is a state party to CEDAW which it ratified in 1991. The 
Palestinian Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) in 
Ramallah recently released a report "Submission to the Field Mission of 
the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the 
Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories".
In the report WCLAC says women and children bear specific consequences 
of the Israeli occupation.
"The Israeli occupation impacts on the lives of Palestinian women at 
every juncture. From sexual harassment and assault, discriminatory 
treatment of Palestinian female prisoners to being forced to give birth 
at Israeli checkpoints," Dima Nashashibi from WCLAC told IPS.
Palestinian women have regularly been attacked and assaulted by Israeli 
settlers in the occupied West Bank where they are often the only people 
at home during the day as their men folk are at work.
The women and their children have been shoved, stoned and shot at or 
have had teargas canisters thrown into their homes while Israeli 
soldiers looked on and did nothing to stop the settlers.
"I couldn’t run. My pregnancy was too far advanced and there was nowhere 
to hide," Amna Salman Rabaye, 31, from the Bedouin village of At Tuwani 
in the southern West Bank told IPS.
Rabaye was seven months pregnant at the time and was grazing her sheep 
when a security guard from the adjacent illegal Israeli settlement of 
Ma'on assaulted her.
"We saw a group of masked Israeli settlers armed with sticks and chains 
heading towards us. The younger shepherds ran and managed to escape 
leaving me with the flock of sheep," Rabaye told IPS.
"It was physically impossible for me to run and I also didn’t want the 
settlers to kill or steal my sheep. The security guard pushed me over." 
Fortunately Rabaye didn’t miscarry.
Giving birth in the occupied territories can be a deadly game of Russian 
Roulette. "We are continuing to have cases of Palestinian women being 
forced to give birth at Israeli checkpoints," says Mutasem Awad from The 
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Ramallah
"Sometimes the women don’t have the necessary Israeli permits to pass 
through while at other times they are delayed for hours leading to the 
death of newborns," Awad told IPS.
Even if the women are able to reach local health centres the doctors 
employed there are not always available to give the women the necessary 
attention due to Israel’s strict limitations on Palestinian movement.
The more than 600 Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks, which cripple 
Palestinian movement in the West Bank, have also adversely affected the 
education of female students.
Female students in this conservative society, in greater numbers than 
males, prefer to stay at home to avoid being harassed and humiliated or 
exposed to attack at the checkpoints.
Palestinian women and children in East Jerusalem have also been 
subjected to home evictions and violence by Israeli security forces and 
settlers as well as threats of sexual assault.
"My daughter was assaulted by Israeli soldiers and police when they 
evicted us from our homes and threw us on to the streets," Nadia Hanoun 
told IPS.
The Hanouns, and a number of other Palestinian families, have been 
forced to live in tents outside their homes in East Jerusalem to make 
way for Israeli settlers who claim that the Hanoun’s and other 
Palestinian homes belong to them.
According to CEDAW it is the responsibility of the state and the Israeli 
occupation forces to prevent and punish such acts of violence and ensure 
reparations. This is not being done. (END/2009)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49146
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 bomba iraniana.
ora, io vorrei capire che nesso c'e' tra la atomica iraniana e la 
condizione delle donne palestinesi.
Davvero, vorrei. Chissa' se Persio e' capace di spiegarlo.

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#_Lo stesso di chi cerca di liberare il peto in pubblico, quando vicino 
passa un treno; poi pero` si sbaglia sempre la sincronia.