Khaled Quzmar is the director general of Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP). At his visit to Sweden, he contributes with information about the situation of the 500-700 Palestinian children who are arrested and imprisoned annually at an open seminar at the Department of Public Health Sciences.

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As a lawyer, he has represented many Palestinian children in Israeli military courts and has great insight into what happens to the children when they are arrested, interrogated, during trials, in prison and beyond. This is a situation that affects human rights and law, child and youth science, social work and not least the physical and mental health of these children and their families.

Khaled Quzmar is a Palestinian lawyer from the West Bank, and have a master's degree in human rights from Galway, Ireland.

Open seminar

Welcome on October 12th, at 1.30 – 2.30 PM,  lecture room 26, House 4 at  Campus Albano.

The seminari is free of charge and open for all. No pre-registration is needed.

This is a hybrid seminar, it will be brodcasted via Zoom. To access the Zoom link, please send an email to Tove Sohlberg, tove.sohlberg@su.se.