Archive for March 14th, 2025

14/03/2025

‘Palestinian Women Working in Illegal Israeli Settlements: Dependencies, Exploitation, and Opportunity Costs’ – OXFAM

Human Wrongs Watch

By OXFAM International*

New paper on exploitation of Palestinian women working in illegal Israeli settlements

Children and their families are returning to their homes or the remains of their homes to check the status of their homes. (Photo: Alef Multimedia Company/Oxfam)

12 March 2025 – Oxfam has released a briefing paper Palestinian Women Working in Illegal Israeli Settlements: Dependencies, Exploitation, and Opportunity Costs, shedding light on the harrowing daily realities faced by many vulnerable Palestinian women employed in exploitative and harsh conditions in illegal Israeli settlements, where their rights are being systematically violated. 

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14/03/2025

“More Than a Human Can Bear”: Israel’s Systematic Use of Sexual, Reproductive and Other Forms of Gender-Based Violence since October 2023

Human Wrongs Watch

By UN Human Rights*

GENEVA, 13 March 2025 – Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities, according to a new report issued today by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. 

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