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Gaza's Lost Childhood: The Catastrophic Impact of Conflict on Children
UN REF: A/HRC/59/NGO/275 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council, Fifty-ninth session, 16 June–11 July 2025. Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Educational Genocide in Palestine: Systematic Attacks on the Right to Learn Under Israeli Occupation
UN REF: A/HRC/59/NGO/151 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council, Fifty-ninth session, 16 June–11 July 2025. Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
Report: Escalating Ethnic Cleansing in the Northern West Bank: A Call for Immediate International Intervention
UNREF: A/HRC/59/NGO/150 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session, 16 June–11 July 2025. Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the
Report: Systematic Torture of Palestinian Female Prisoners in Israeli Jails, Including Sexual Violations
UNREF: A/HRC/59/NGO/243 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organisation in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July 2025 Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
Torture and Genocide: The Suffering of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons after October 7th, 2023 (Feb 2025)
UN REF: A/HRC/58/NGO/291 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organisation in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session 24 February–4 April 2025 Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report | Systematic Attacks on Gaza's Healthcare System
UN REF: A/HRC/58/NGO/143 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council, Fifty-eighth session, 24 February–4 April 2025. Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
A Generation in Peril: The Human Cost of War on Gaza’s Children After October, 7th 2023 (Feb 2025)
UN REF: A/HRC/58/NGO/292 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organisation in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session, 24 February–4 April 2025, Agenda item 3, Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report: Torture and Deaths of Palestinian Detainees in Israeli Custody Post October 7, 2023 (September 2024)
UN REF: A/HRC/57/NGO/233 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session, 9 September–9 October 2024, Agenda item 3, Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report: Attacks on UNRWA as Part of Israel’s Genocide against the Palestinian People (September 2024)
UN REF: A/HRC/57/NGO/45 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session, 9 September–9 October 2024. Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Report | Depriving Displaced Palestinians in the Northern Region of the Syrian Arab Republic of their Right to Receive the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Services Deepens Existing Vulnerabilities
UN REF: A/HRC/57/NGO/220 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council, Fifty-seventh session, 9 September–9 October 2024. Agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Report: The Reality of the Educational Sector in Gaza During the Current Genocide
UN REF: A/HRC/56/NGO/132 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-sixth session, 18 June –12 July 2024, Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report: Evidence of Mass Graves Containing Hundreds of Bodies Throughout Israel’s Genocidal Attacks Against Palestinians in Gaza
UN REF: A/HRC/56/NGO/40 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-sixth session. 18 June–12 July 2024. Agenda item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports
Report: Perpetuating the Nakba: Ongoing Forced Displacement in Gaza (July 2024)
UN REF: A/HRC/56/NGO/133 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council, Fifty-sixth session, 18 June–12 July 2024. Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report: Palestinians of the Syrian Arab Republic (PRS) in Lebanon: Ambivalent Legal Status and Refoulement Concerns
UN REF: A/HRC/56/NGO/10 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council. Fifty-sixth session, 18 June–12 July 2024. Agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Report: Israeli Authorities’ Intention to Expel Palestinian Political Prisoners (March 2024)
UN REF: A/HRC/55/NGO/291 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of
Report: Increased Violence against Palestinian Children Since October 7th in Gaza (March 2024)
UN REF: A-HRC-55-NGO-281 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024, Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
Report: Israel’s Lethal Disposal of Nuclear Waste
UN REF: A/HRC/54/NGO/275 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status, to Human Rights Council - Fifty-fourth session, 11 September–13 October 2023, Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social
Report: The Ongoing Genocide in Gaza and International Complicity (Feb 2024)
UN REF: A/HRC/55/NGO/293 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status at Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.
Document: Torture against Migrants on the Balkan Route: When the Dream of Human Dignity Becomes a Nightmare (March 2023)
UN REF: A/HRC/52/NGO/237 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status, to the Human Rights Council, Fifty-second session, 27 February–31 March 2023, Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and
Document: Israeli Arms Deals and Arms Factories in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 2022)
UNREF: A/HRC/51/NGO/176 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-first session 12 September–7 October 2022 Agenda item 3. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
Document: Israeli aggressions during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2022 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Occupied Palestinian Territory (September 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/51/NGO/177 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-first session 12 September–7 October 2022. Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Document: The Impact of Israel’s Securitization Narrative on West Bank’s Refugee Camps (September 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/51/NGO/173 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-first session 12 September–7 October 2022 Agenda item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation
Document: Palestinian Refugees Facing Squalid Humanitarian Condition in the Northern part of the Syrian Arab Republic Displacement Camps (September 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/51/NGO/174 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Fifty-first session. 12 September–7 October 2022. Agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Document: The forcible transfer of Masafer Yatta communities approved by Israel’s High Court of Justice (June 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/50/NGO/117 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: Transferring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Responsibilities Undermines Regional Stability (June 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/50/NGO/115 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: Israeli Forces Attacks and Israeli Settler Intrusions of Al Aqsa Mosque (June 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/50/NGO/112 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the
Document: Tadhamun Massacre and the Extra-Judicial Killing of Palestinian Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic (June 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/50/NGO/116 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention.
Document: The Unlawful Killing of Palestinian-American Journalist - Shireen Abu Akleh (June 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/50/NGO/114 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3, Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: The Apartheid in Israel Against Palestinians: A Cruel System of Domination and a Crime Against Humanity (February 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/49/NGO/219 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Forty-ninth session 28 February–1 April 2022 Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.
Document: The Humanitarian Impact of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)Aid Cut on Palestinian Refugees from Syria (PRS) in Lebanon (February 2022)
UN REF: A/HRC/49/NGO/114 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Forty-ninth session. 28 February–1 April 2022. Agenda item 4. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention.
Document: Sabra and Shatila: A genocide for which the criminal has not been held accountable
UN REF: A/HRC/48/NGO/68 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Forty-eighth session 13 September–1 October 2021 Agenda item 7 Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Document: Israel’s Recent Illicit Violence Against Gaza’s Besieged Population (September 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/48/NGO/40 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Human Rights Council Forty-eighth session 13 September–1 October 2021 Agenda item 7 Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.
Document: Israeli crimes against Palestinian Citizens of Israel (June 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/47/NGO/62 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.
Document: Palestinian Refugees from Syrian Arab Republic in Jordan (June 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/47/NGO/60 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda items 3 and 4 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. Human
Document: Gaza’s Healthcare System Is on The Brink of Collapse (June 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/47/NGO/40 | Written statement* submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: Gaza’s Children Deprived of Their Right to Education (June 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/47/NGO/41 | Written statement* submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon; Economic conditions and Poverty (June 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/47/NGO/63 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Document: Crackdowns and human rights violations against Palestinians in Austria (March 2021)
UN REF: A/HRC/46/NGO/121 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status Agenda item 3; Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Document: Covid-19 and its impact on Palestinian refugees (June 2020)
UN REF: A/HRC/44/NGO/45 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda items 2 and 7 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner
Document: Situation of Palestinians of the Syrian Arab Republic exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic (June 2020)
UN REF: A/HRC/44/NGO/18 | Written statement submitted by The Palestinian Return Centre Ltd., a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Agenda items 2 and 4 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner