Submitted by: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man Al Mezan Center for Human Rights Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) The Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy – MIFTAH

Introduction and Context

1. This submission is prepared in response to a call for input issued by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment for her upcoming report to the UN General Assembly on the identification, documentation, investigation and prosecution of crimes of sexual torture and other related cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment committed during war and armed conflicts, and rehabilitation of victims and survivors.

2. This joint submission contextualises Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinians—which is one among the numerous forms of collective and individual torment imposed on them— within the wider framework of settler-colonial apartheid, military occupation, and genocide, and highlights documented cases of sexual torture endured by Palestinians.

Read the full submission here.