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Monitoring protection mechanisms / Reports and Publications / Occupied Palestinian Territory / 2016 / April

Joint Alternative Report on Israel to the Committee against Torture


The PCATI has submitted in consultation with OMCT an alternative report to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) for its review of the Fifth Periodic Report on Israel which will take place on 3rd and 4th May 2016 in Geneva, in the framework of the 57th session of the CAT.

The report focuses on five issues of concern :

-       Lack of criminalization of torture in Israeli Law and failure of Israel to prevent torture within its jurisdiction ;

-       Lack of provision of real and effective safeguards against torture ;

-       Need for a fully independent and impartial mechanism to investigate allegations of torture ;

-       Need for specific trainings on the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment, and incorporation of the use of the Istanbul Protocol in the investigation and documentation of torture ;

-       Lack of reparations for victims of torture in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Along with specific recommendations formulated for each issue of concern, the report is suggesting the CAT to adopt the following general recommendations with respect to Israel :

1.     Ratification of Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, allowing National Preventive Mechanisms and the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to visit all places of detention and detainees ;

2.     Recognition of the competence of the CAT under article 22 of the Convention to receive and examine communications from or on behalf of victims of violations of the provisions of the Convention within the jurisdiction of Israel.

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Date: April 13, 2016
Activity: Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Rights of the Child
Type: Reports and Publications
Country: Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territory
Subjects: Rights of the child, Torture and violence

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  • CAT 2016 Shadow Report_Tunisia_EN
    30 pages / 768 KB

  • CAT 2016_Shadow report_FR
    30 pages / 771 KB

  • CAT Alternative report Israel
    28 pages / 894 KB

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