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18-Feb-2025 Experts urge humane treatment and immediate release of Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians Armed conflict, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Torture, War crimes, detainees
Sources:

Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances

Entity:

United Nations system

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Press Release

Country:

10-Feb-2025 Distressing conditions of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees – UN Human Rights office Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, detainees, malnutrition
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

04-Feb-2025 Annual Compilation of Selected United Nations Reports on the Question of Palestine 2024 Vol. VI Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Economic issues, Food, Funding needs, Gaza Strip, Gender, Genocide, Golan Heights, Health, Hospitals, Hostages, House demolitions, Human Rights Council, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Incidents, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, Land, Legal issues, Living conditions, Media/Journalists, Occupation, Palestine question, Peace process, Peace proposals and efforts, Prisoners and detainees, Protection, Public information, Quartet, Refugees and displaced persons, Settler violence, Social issues, Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, UNRWA, Violence, West Bank, Women, detainees, malnutrition
Sources:

Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), European Union (EU), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), General Assembly, Human Rights Council, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), International Labour Organization (ILO), International Organization for Migration, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the Quartet (OQ), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Register of Damage caused by the construction of the Wall (UNROD), Secretary-General, Security Council, Security Council Committee on Admission of New Members, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, UN Women, UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP), United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Compilation UN Reports, Report

Country:

30-Jan-2025 Demand for ceasefire in Gaza (Needs assessment for Gaza, Humanitarian and socioeconomic impact of Gaza war, UN response) – Secretary-General Report (A/79/739) Accountability, Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Economic issues, Gaza Strip, Health, Hostages, Internally displaced persons, Reconstruction, Social issues, Women, detainees A/79/739
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report, Secretary-General Report

Country:

24-Jan-2025 “Denying Palestinian rights is a death sentence for the people of Gaza” UN Palestinian Rights Committee Statement to the Security Council Access and movement, Accountability, Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Prisoners and detainees, Self-determination, detainees
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Statement

Country:

07-Oct-2024 Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Torture, detainees
Sources:

Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

09-Sep-2024 Over 600,000 children in Gaza are deprived of formal education, alarming reports of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees – Highlights of the noon briefing by Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General – 09 September 2024 Access and movement, Armed conflict, Education and culture, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Prisoners and detainees, Refugees and displaced persons, detainees, sexual violence
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Highlights of the Noon Briefing, Multimedia, Press briefing, Video

Country:

16-Aug-2024 UN Special Rapporteur on Torture appalled by allegation of sexual torture by Israeli soldiers and calls for accountability Armed conflict, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Torture, detainees
Sources:

Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

31-Jul-2024 Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023 – June 2024) – Thematic Report by OHCHR Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Prisoners and detainees, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons, detainees
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

31-Jul-2024 UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment – OHCHR Access and movement, Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons, Torture, detainees
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

25-Jun-2024 UN Special Committee on Israeli practices in occupied territories concludes field mission Access and movement, Armed conflict, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Golan Heights, Health, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Torture, War crimes, West Bank, detainees, sexual violence
Sources:

Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Israel, Malaysia, Palestine (State of), Senegal, Sri Lanka

25-Jun-2024 End-of-Mission Statement of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Ceasefire, Food, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Violence, War crimes, West Bank, detainees
Sources:

Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Israel, Malaysia, Palestine (State of), Senegal, Sri Lanka

12-Jun-2024 Israeli authorities, Palestinian armed groups are responsible for war crimes, other grave violations of international law, UN Inquiry finds Access and movement, Armed conflict, Ceasefire, Children, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons, Torture, detainees
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Human Rights Council, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Independent International Commission on the oPt, including E. Jerusalem, and Israel

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

16-Apr-2024 Detention and alleged ill-treatment of detainees from Gaza during Israel-Hamas war – UNRWA Report Armed conflict, Children, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Torture, Women, detainees
Sources:

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

16-Apr-2024 Statement by Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, following her two-day visit to the Middle-East Access and movement, Armed conflict, Children, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons, detainees
Sources:

United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Statement

Country:

06-Feb-2024 Committee against Torture: Information received from the State of Palestine on follow-up to the concluding observations on its initial report*(CAT/C/PSE/FCO/1) Convention: Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Torture, War crimes, detainees CAT/C/PSE/FCO/1
Sources:

Committee against Torture, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

Palestine (State of)

19-Jan-2024 Gaza: Report from the ground – UN Human Rights Office Press Release Armed conflict, Ceasefire, Human rights and international humanitarian law, detainees
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

03-Oct-2023 Call for the protection of Palestinian prisoners and end to their inhumane treatment in Israeli jails- Letter from the State of Palestine (A/ES-10/952-S/2023/731) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons, detainees A/ES-10/952
Sources:

General Assembly, Security Council

Entity:

Palestine/PLO/Palestinian Authority, United Nations system

Type

Letter, Palestine letter (Situation in the OPT since 29 September 2000)

Country:

Palestine (State of)

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