NGO Follow-Up to the Parallel Report to the Initial Report of the State of Palestine

3 We recommend to the Committee to ask State Party more clarifications on the following issues: What are the measures and procedures taken by the State of Palestine to implement Article 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals? We call upon the State of Palestine to provide an explanation for the reasons behind the reduction in the expenditure percentage allocated to the social development budge. [...] Also, the participation of women in decision-making positions is still limited compared to men's participation, as data for 2021 showed that women constitute about 23% of the members of the Central Council, 19% of the members of the Palestinian National Council, and 12% of members of the Council of Ministers are women. [...] The majority of women work in the informal sector and as a result of the absence of the role of the ministry of labor in monitoring such sector, there are no clear statistics about the percentage of those women. [...] We demand the Committee to bring the State to accountability regarding the following: The absence of measures and procedures taken by the State to guarantee equality in marriage, during marriage, or in the event of its dissolution, and the mechanism of providing protection for children and women with disabilities of their rights to a decent life.. [...] In terms of the economic cost of approving the Family Protection from Violence Law, MIFTAH, one of the NGO members of AL-Muntata, has prepared a study entitled "Draft Decree on the Family Protection Law, Financial and Economic Analysis" to provide financial and economic indicators within the framework of a case study of the financial repercussions of the provisions of the FPB.