Book Launch & talk by Adah Kay, Co Author of Stolen Youth, Israeli detention of Palestinian Children

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Monday October 18, 2004 01:38 by Tom Lonergan - IPSC tomlon777 at eircom dot net www.ipsc.ie

The book launch of 'Stolen Youth' and Adah's talk will take place at Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St. at 7pm on Wednesday 27th October.

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) would like to announce Adah Kay, co-author of 'Stolen Youth', The politics of Israel's detention of Palestinian Children, who will speak about Palestinian children including child prisoners and the effects the Israeli occupation is having on them.

The book launch of 'Stolen Youth' and Adah's talk will take place at Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St. at 7pm on Wednesday 27th October.

Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned. The result is a disturbing and often shocking account of the abuses that are being carried out by Israel, and that have been widely documented by human rights groups such as Amnesty International, but have never been addressed by the international community.

The book presents a critical analysis of the international legal framework and the UN system, arguing that a major failure of these institutions is their appeal to neutrality while ignoring the reality of power. The book offers an explanation for these failures by locating the issue of Palestinian child prisoners within the framework of the Israeli overall system of control as a long-term political strategy.

Adah is the daughter of Jewish refugees. Since 1967 she has opposed the Israeli occupation. Some years ago she and her husband decided to go and live in the West Bank to see how they could contribute more directly. They went in 2002 when Adah volunteered with Defence for Children International (Palestine Section) and co wrote Stolen Youth - on Palestinian child prisoners. Adah now divides her time between the UK and the West Bank. She spends much of her time in the West Bank doing research, writing and working with children's NGOs.

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