NGOs, Palestinians outraged after UN chief leaves Israel off list of children’s rights violators

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Despite mounting pressure from the international community, as well as his colleagues, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chose not to include Israel on the List of Shame – a document outlining groups and states who violate children’s rights in conflict.

Rights groups have been urging Ban to change last year’s list and add Israel after last summer’s war in Gaza claimed more than 500 children’s lives. Those voices predicted there would be pressure from Israel to be omitted from the list, and appealed to Ban to ignore it, and in so doing “strengthen child protection,” as suggested by crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, Philippe Bolopion last week.

Ban’s own Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, had stood by accusations against the Jewish state of “grave crimes against children” made in a UN document obtained by Reuters last Friday. The draft 22-page country report by several UN agencies was sent to Zerrougui for review, just ahead of her own draft version of the 'List of Shame' she had sent to Ban …. http://rt.com/news

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