UN Experts Sound Alarm over Continuing Devastation in Gaza, West Bank, at Palestinian Rights Committee Briefing
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The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting, with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain: The Humanitarian and Human Rights Consequences in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, on 29 October 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, with briefings by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967; Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the right to education; Surya Deva, Special Rapporteur on the right to development; and Srinivasan Muralidhara, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian…
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