Ref: 22/2015
On Thursday, 21 May 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights
(PCHR) organized two workshops titled, “Protection of Children’s Rights in
Armed Conflicts” in the context of a project implemented by PCHR in
cooperation with the Italian Cooperation Association – Cooperazione
Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS) on the protection of children’s rights in armed
conflicts. The two workshops were held in the office of Cooperative Association of Strawberry Farmers
in Beit Lahia town in the north of the Gaza Strip. It was attended by 36
participants, including psychologists and social workers, from a number of
community-based organizations in the southern and northern Gaza Strip.
In the first workshop, Mr. Maher Lubbad, from
PCHR’s Documentation and Fieldwork Unit, provided a presentation on human
rights monitoring and documentation. Mr. Lubbad addressed the concepts and
goals of monitoring and documentation of human rights violations. He then
talked about the monitoring and documentation mechanisms and the tools and
methods used in that regard. Mr. Lubbad presented also PCHR experience in
documenting human rights violations.
In the second workshop, Mr. Khalil Shaheen, Director of PCHR’s Economic and Social Rights’ Units, addressed the
International Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism on child rights violations in
armed conflicts according to the resolution of the UN Security Council 1612 issued in 2005. Mr.
Shaheen spoke about the grave violations observed and documented by PCHR and
other human rights organizations in the Gaza Strip according to the above-mentioned
mechanism.
PCHR previously had already organized two workshops
for the same group. The first workshop addressed the international
human rights system, principles of the international humanitarian law and its
relation with the Islamic Shari’a provisions, while the other one focused on children’s rights and international protection
mechanisms. Mr. Shaheen concluded the fourth workshop and thanked all the participants
for their participation in the four workshops.
