‘Palestinian Women Are Shackled During Childbirth’ Mehru Jaffer interviews FABRIZIA FALCIONE, UNIFEM  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54796

Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents. According to Fabrizia Falcione, a women’s human rights officer for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now part of UN WOMEN, told IPS that it is crucial to reveal the human face behind this breach of international law and international humanitarian law in order to address the plight of Palestinian political prisoners, including women and children...