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- Economic and Social Council adopts texts on Palestinian women, violence against girls from report of the Commission on Status of Women.
ReliefWeb, 24 July 2007. ECOSOC this afternoon adopted a resolution from the report of the Commission on the Status of Women in which it called upon the international community to continue to provide urgently needed assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian women and their families
- 'We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay'.
The Mail and Guardian, 16 May, 2007.
Battling against a deeply patriarchal society, Arab Israeli and Palestinian lesbian women are uniting to break the taboo of homosexuality and politicise the right to be female and gay.
- Few legal options for abused Palestinian women, say activists.
IRIN News, 03 October 2007.
Palestinian female victims of domestic violence have little chance of escaping their situation or bringing the perpetrators to justice as they face a legal system stacked in favour of the accused and a prevailing attitude that places blame on the victim, women's rights experts said.
- Gender-Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East: A comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen. Pernilla Ouis and Tove Myhrman, Save the Children, Sweden, 2008
- Report on Refugee & Stateless Women Across the Arab Region. Stories Of: The Dream Of Return, The Fear Of Trafficking And Discriminatory Laws, Coordinated by The Karama Movement in the Arab Region, 2008
- Gender-Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East, Save the Children Sweden 2007
- A question of security: violence against Palestinian women and girls, Human Rights Watch (HRW) 2006
- A Question of Security: Violence against Palestinian Women and Girls, Human Rights Watch, Volume 18, No. 7(E), 2006
- Integration of the Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women. Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory (in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian And Spanish), Ertϋrk, Y., February 2005
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