The report from three Israeli human rights organisations which was circulated by Dana Moss makes sickening reading, and one feels frustrated over the lack of action being taken to prevent such abuses of child rights.
It will be valuable to hear from child health professionals in Israel as to their perspective on the situation, what is being done by child rights advocates, and how CHIFA members may help to bring about change in this situation.
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
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Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
