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the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin; and the
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of
living, Miloon Kothari - Mission to Lebanon and Israel (7-14 September 2006), para. 88.
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A/HRC/2/7, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions, Philip Alston; the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt; the Representative of
the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin; and the
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of
living, Miloon Kothari - Mission to Lebanon and Israel (7-14 September 2006), para. 89:
“Damage to medical facilities combined with shortages of fuel, power, water and supplies have
had a major impact on service delivery throughout the districts affected by the conflict. There is
a serious gap, for example, in maternal and child care services. Just one in four primary health
care facilities are able to provide pre-natal care, and just one in 10 can support proper delivery
and emergency obstetric care. One third are able to store vaccines and just 13 per cent are able
to provide some mental health services.”
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The Commissioners heard from the women of Chihine, for example, how they remained in
their village when the men had left whilst it was the target of bomb attacks; a number of them
were held and threatened by IDF; two were shot, one killed and one injured. They said they had
stayed in their village, along with the elderly, in order to take care of the tobacco plantations and
olive groves.
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There are also reportedly some 20,000 Filipinos, and many thousand Indians and
Bangladeshis.
245
See, e.g. “Caritas helps poor migrants in Lebanon to get home”, Caritas Internationalis press
release, Vatican City, 27 July 2006 http://www.caritas.org/jumpNews.asp?idChannel=
4&idLang=FR&idUser=0&idNews=4306 (retrieved on 8 November 2006).
246
Ministry of Public Health. National Strategy for early recovery of the health sector in
Lebanon, 31 August 2006.
247
Statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 3 August 2006.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/6E0E2CD4614B60A7C12571C000249579?
opendocument (retrieved on 8 November 2006).
248
Médecins sans Frontières did mention in its activity report for July-August 2006 that more
than 20% of all consultations in Beirut were related to mental health problems: Médecins sans
Frontières. Emergency response in Lebanon - July-August 2006 - Activity report
http://www.msf.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/uploads/articles/2006/pdf/MSF_in_Lebanon__activity_report__reactive_.pdf (retrieved on 8 November 2006).
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