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GENEVA (29 May 2024)  Israeli air strikes on a camp sheltering displaced civilians in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah, that have reportedly claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and older persons on Sunday night are an outrage, UN ...

News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Protection and Human Rights; published on 29 May 2024 by UN HRC

“With more than 80% of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as ‘scholasticide’,” the experts said.

Experts from the United Nations have expressed their dismay at forced conversions, sexual violence, abduction, and trafficking of minor Hindu and

Express concern over forced marriages and conversions being "validated by the courts".

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According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather than allowing them to return to their parents. UN Slams Pakistan: United Nations Experts Lambast Pakistan for Failing To Stop Forced Conversions, Marriages of Minor Girls in Country.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - More than thirty independent experts appointed by the Office of the High Commission on Human …

At least two Palestinian women detainees were reportedly raped while others were threatened with rape and sexual violence, UN experts note

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli Newspaper Arab 48 reports that United Nations officials have expressed the utmost anxiety …