Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provided to B'Tselem—The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories in each of the last five years.
During the last five years the Middle East and North Africa Conflict programme have provided £185,000 to B’Tselem.
This is broken down as follows:
£ | |
2010-11 | 135,000 |
2006-07 | (1)50,000 |
(1) Project jointly administered by B’Tselem and Hamoked |
The project in 2010-11 was designed to bring about an improvement in the human rights situation in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem using film and video documentation as both a deterrent and tool for accountability.
In 2006-7 the project was to help the facilitation of freedom of movement for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories through legal and administrative action, advocacy and public education.
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