Defense for Children International – Palestine
Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) is a Palestinian non-governmental child rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. It advocates for their rights at the national and international level, and investigates and documents human rights violations against children. DCIP also provides legal services to children in urgent need.
Defense for Children International – Palestine is a national section of Defense for Children International (DCI), an international child-rights movement and non-governmental organization established in 1979.
Human rights defenders in the OPT are subjected to acts of harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement, stigmatisation, abductions, long periods of arbitrary detention usually under administrative detention orders, illegal searches of their homes and offices and killings. Many of the violations are state-sanctioned, or if not sanctioned at the highest levels of the Israeli political and military establishment, then condoned by the ongoing policy of impunity which permeates the military and judicial system in relation to the OPT. In some instances Israeli settlers have also been the perpetrators of violence against human rights defenders.
