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Preliminary Material /André Alen , Johan Vande Lanotte , Eugeen Verhellen , Fiona Ang , Eva Berghmans and Mieke Verheyde -- Chapter One. Introduction /André Alen , Johan Vande Lanotte , Eugeen Verhellen , Fiona Ang , Eva Berghmans and Mieke Verheyde -- Chapter Two. Comparison with Related International Human Rights Provisions /André Alen , Johan Vande Lanotte , Eugeen Verhellen , Fiona Ang , Eva Berghmans and Mieke Verheyde -- Chapter Three. Scope of Article 4 of the Crc /André Alen , Johan Vande Lanotte , Eugeen Verhellen , Fiona Ang , Eva Berghmans and Mieke Verheyde -- Chapter Four. Conclusions /André Alen , Johan Vande Lanotte , Eugeen Verhellen , Fiona Ang , Eva Berghmans and Mieke Verheyde.

Women in the Middle East are systematically subjected to discrimination, prejudice, stereotypical treatment, and lack of protection by the law, customs and practice. Nowhere is this more evident than upon arrest or detention where they often find themselves subject to double discrimination : firstly, as "criminals", or offenders, and secondly as women. The protective Arab culture of the "honor" and "interest" of the woman suddenly vanishes, and what is normally seen as the unacceptable, suddenly becomes acceptable.

The report, commissioned by ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC), is based on data from a May 1996 survey on child labour carried out by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the fieldwork and research of the Palestine Section of Defence for Children International and fieldwork by UNICEF