A multilayered architecture of confinement: Human rights, carcerality and Palestinian children
13:00-14:30
Earlier this year the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese’s report highlighted how expanding and multilayered forms of confinement in Palestine impacts children acutely. The Report identifies that while in-person confinement is the most prevalent form of deprivation of liberty imposed on Palestinians, physical, bureaucratic and digital architectures generate further restriction spatially and psychologically. An expanded carcerality, made of an array of laws, procedures and technologies of coercive confinement, transforms the occupied Palestinian territory into a constantly surveilled open-air panopticon. This, Albanese finds, generates greater vulnerability of some groups especially children who are treated as equivalent to adults by the law. Click to watch a recording of Albanese's talk.
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