NGOs Fail Palestinian Women at the UN
By Paula Kweskin
In April 2010, a 32-year-old woman was shot to death in a town in the northern Gaza Strip. Several men, including her father, were arrested for the crime. A year prior, a girl from a Palestinian village south of Qalqilya was smothered to death by her brother. In 2005, a father murdered two of his daughters and badly injured a third for an alleged sexual affair. In December 2008, two Palestinian girls were killed when militants' rockets directed at Israel fell short of their targets. Two years later, a teenage girl was injured in central Israel when Hamas militants fired rockets on her kibbutz.
Unfortunately, at the UN review of Israel’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in January, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) squandered the opportunity...