West Bank and Gaza: Children in Detention Exposed to Violence and Abuse

Summary: This report gives a general overview of what law Israel applies to the children arrested and detained by its army in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. In addition, it provides information and best practice of work Save the Children Sweden has carried out to support the children in Israeli detention. Finally, the report presents the preventive measures that have been taken to decrease the number of arrests of children, put an end to Israel’s policy of child arrest and detention and treat these children in accordance with the Convention of the Right of the Child (CRC).pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/SAVE_THE_CHILDRE_Children_in_Detention_Exposed_...(English).pdf

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