Mirna Shalash, representative of Partners for Transparency, gave an oral intervention on the human rights situation in Palestine before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the presentation of the OHCHR report on the human rights situation, at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council
For her part, Mirna Shalash confirmed that with the spread of the Covid-19 virus continuously and increasingly, the human rights situation in Palestine was greatly affected at various levels, as the Palestinian economy contracted by 4.9% during the first quarter of 2020, which directly caused an impact on the unemployment rate. And lay off a large number of workers
She also clarified that the number of children prisoners in Israeli prisons had reached at the beginning of 2020 about 200 children distributed in different prisons, whose ages ranged between 12-18 years, which is a violation of the organization's conventions on the rights of the child, especially the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.
The Partners Foundation for Transparency has recommended the necessity of developing measures and procedures that will protect the Palestinians from the abuse that affects them, especially in light of the widespread need and the worsening of their health conditions, and the Foundation called for making room for civil society organizations concerned with the matter in order to play its role in raising awareness of the need to adhere to the precautionary measures. As announced by the World Health Organization, it also recommended that donor institutions provide assistance to improve the conditions and conditions in which children, women and people with special needs live.
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