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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination United Nations CEDAW/C/ISR/Q/5/Add.1 Convention on the Elimination Distr.: General 8 December 2010 of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Original: English ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Pre-session working group Forty-eighth session 17 January – 4 February 2011 Responses to the list of issues and questions with regard to the consideration of the fourth and fifth periodic reports Israel* * This document was submitted late due to delayed inputs from other sources. GE.10 CEDAW/C/ISR/Q/5/Add.1 Contents Page Question 1. ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Question 2 ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Question 3 ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Question 4 ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Question 5 ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Question 6 ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Question 7 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......................................................................................................................................... 81 Question 39 ......................................................................................................................................... 83 3 CEDAW/C/ISR/Q/5/Add.1 General Question 1. Please describe how representatives of civil society organizations, in particular women's and human rights organizations, participated in the preparation of the reports. Please also inform the Committee if the reports were presented to the Knesset (Parliament) or any designated high-level authority. Reply: Prior to commencing the actual writing, the previous report, session, concluding observations and general comments issued by the Committee since the last report was submitted, are studied. In addition to letters that are sent out to all the relevant Ministries and Governmental bodies, letters are also sent out to the relevant and the leading NGOs, inviting them to submit comments prior to the compilation of the report, both through direct application, and a general invitation to submit remarks posted on the Ministry of Justice web site. Their contributions are given substantial consideration. In addition to this invitation to submit comments, data and information are also actively sought on the relevant NGOs' websites, such information may include legal action taken by these NGOs and also opinions and reports on various issues. In the compilation of the Fifth periodic report, direct applications were sent to the 26 NGOs, for example: − The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel. − Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO). − Toda'a Institution for Research the World Phenomena of Prostitution and Trafficking in Women. − My Sister (Ah'oti) Movement for Women in Israel. − Emunah – National Religious Women Organization. − NA`AMAT- Movement of Working Women and Volunteers. − Women Industrialists Forum in the Manufacturers Association of Israel. − Amnesty International – Israel. − Kayan – Feminist Organization for Promotion of Arab Women. − Isha L'Isha—Haifa Feminist Center. − The Association for Civil Rights in Israel. − El'nuhood – the Association for the promotion of the Bedouin Women Education in the Negev. − The Association for Promotion of Women Health in Israel. After their compilation and prior to presenting the reports to the Committee, the reports are presented to high level officials, including the Director General of the Ministry of Justice, the Attorney General and its Deputies, the State's Attorney, legal advisors of the relevant Government Ministries and more. 4 CEDAW/C/ISR/Q/5/Add.1 Question 2 In its previous concluding observations (CEDAW/C/ISR/CO/3, paras. 23-24), the Committee expressed its regret at the State party’s position that the Convention did not apply beyond its own territory and, for that reason, the State party’s refusal to report on the status of implementation of the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the situation of women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Please indicate whether the Convention has been implemented throughout the territory under the State party’s jurisdiction, if it is directly applicable, and if it has been invoked before the courts. Please provide information on the enjoyment by women of their human rights under the Convention, including equal access to basic services, by women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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