{"id":1915,"date":"2012-06-10T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2012-06-10T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T11:56:09","slug":"letter-from-tania-baldwin-pask-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Tania Baldwin Pask, Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to\u00a0Secretary of\u00a0UN Committee against Torture,\u00a0Mr Joao Nataf<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

2012<\/h4>\n

“Mr Joao Nataf
\nSecretary
\nUN Committee against Torture
\nTreaty Bodies Branch, Office of the High
\nCommissioner for Human Rights
\nUNOG-OHCHR
\nCH-1211 Geneva 10
\nSwitzerland
\n7 March 2012<\/p>\n

Dear Mr Nataf<\/p>\n

RE: ISRAEL – ADOPTION OF LIST OF ISSUES BY THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE<\/p>\n

Amnesty International would like to draw the attention of the members of the Committee against Torture (the Committee) to the organization\u2019s concerns about the State of Israel\u2019s implementation of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Convention), in advance of the Committee\u2019s adoption of a list of issues. Please distribute this briefing as appropriate.<\/p>\n

The briefing presents a range of concerns of Amnesty International about Israel\u2019s failure to implement key provisions of the Convention both in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). In particular, Amnesty International is concerned about the continued use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment during arrest and detention of Palestinians, including minors.<\/p>\n[…]\n

Amnesty International is concerned that the Israeli authorities continue to carry out demolitions of homes in areas of the West Bank, ostensibly for administrative reasons relating to planning and zoning, but in practice systematically favouring the expansion of Israeli settlements and their infrastructure over the rights of Palestinian inhabitants. For instance, near Maale Adumim settlement to the east of Jerusalem, 2,300 Jahalin Bedouin Palestinians are at risk of losing their homes and being forcibly transferred to a location that is not of their choosing in early 2012. In the Gaza Strip, house demolitions have been carried out recklessly and wantonly during military operations. Within Israel itself, Palestinian citizens of Israel have suffered the repeated demolition of their homes, for instance as a corollary of discriminatory policies that do not recognize the legality of specific Palestinian Bedouin villages in the Negev\/Naqab region.<\/p>\n[…]”<\/p>\n

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Full letter here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/asset\/MDE15\/029\/2012\/en\/f4ab2b6c-38dc-4803-8ace-54a4f219b98f\/mde150292012en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letter to\u00a0Secretary of\u00a0UN Committee against Torture,\u00a0Mr Joao Nataf 2012 “Mr Joao Nataf Secretary UN Committee against Torture Treaty Bodies Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland 7 March 2012 Dear Mr Nataf RE: ISRAEL – ADOPTION OF LIST OF ISSUES BY THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE Amnesty International would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[37,170,189,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}