NGO Report to CEDAW and Concluding Observations

The Working Group on the Status of Palestinian Women of Israel, comprised of seven Palestinian women's and human rights NGOs and individual activists, submitted an NGO Report entitled "The Status of Palestinian Women Citizens of Israel" to the CEDAW Committee. The 131-page report, the first ever by Palestinian women in Israel, discusses issues of Palestinian women's political participation, education, employment, health, personal status and family laws and violence against women, as well as critique Israel's report and response to questions posed by the Committee. CEDAW adopted many of the Working Group's concerns about violations of Palestinian women's rights by the Israeli government in its Concluding Comments and Recommendations.

NGO Report: The Status of Palestinian Women Citizens of Israel (Part 1) (Part 2) - July 1997

Concluding Comments of the CEDAW - July 1997