Public Statements

Ramallah, 14 June 2013–Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) and Health Work Committees (HWC) sent a letter to Alicia Keys urging her to cancel her...
Ramallah, 25 March 2013–On Friday 22 March, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council) adopted a resolution, tabled by the State of Palestine, the Organisation of...
Geneva, 15 March 2013 – Defence for Children International (DCI) strongly condemns the execution by firing squad on 13 March 2013 of seven young men in Saudi Arabia, and the...
[1 March 2013] – The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC), along with Adalah, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights-...
[14 February 2013] - As the open-end hunger strike of the Palestinian heroes inside Israeli jails continues for nearly 200 days, the Occupied Palestine and Golan Advocacy...
[31 January 2013] – Yesterday, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA oPt) released a statement expressing serious...
[28 January 2013]—The British Government recently expressed concern for the treatment of Palestinian child detainees in two letters responding to initiatives that seek to end ill-...
Ref. No.: 20/2013 29 January 2013 15 Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations today warned of the far-reaching consequences of Israel’s refusal to fully cooperate with...
The Young Socialists (PvdA - Labor Party), Young Democrats (D66 - Democrats 66) and DWARS (GroenLinks - GreenLeft) have concluded, after a trip to Israel and the Palestinian...
According to investigations now completed by DCI, 33 out of the 158 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza between 14 and 21 November 2012, were children.