A/HRC/60/62 the Houthis (Ansar Allah). These acts reportedly aimed to obstruct the organization’s work in monitoring and documenting human rights violations and providing legal support to victims of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. The reported incidents included arbitrary detention, travel bans, restrictions on freedom of movement, threats of detention or liquidation, summonses, interrogations, and other forms of harassment in ten governorates, including Sana’a, Taiz, Hadhramout, Hudaydah, Lahj, Dhale, Aden, Ibb, Sa’adah, Amran, and Hajjah. 20. State of Palestine 147. The case of several Palestinian and international women’s organizations and human rights defenders had been included in the reports of the Secretary General since 2020149 concerning allegations of online smearing, intimidation and threats, including death threats against them for their support for the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and for their actual or perceived engagement with the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW/C/PSE/CO/1, para. 15c). 148. During the reporting period, a social media page entitled “Mass Movement against CEDAW”, continued to issue statements, employing violent language, and threatening and stigmatizing Palestinian women human rights defenders and Palestinian civil society organizations working on gender justice, particularly those cooperating with the CEDAW Committee and other UN women’s rights fora. A number of women’s rights organizations and their staff members have reportedly been targeted in online posts by the anti-CEDAW campaign during the reporting period. Names and details of those concerned are withheld due to fear of further reprisals. 149. According to information received by OHCHR, social media posts called for an end to the work of these organizations. On 17 December 2024, one such post stated “Organizations like this should have their hands cut off, regardless of whatever justification they may claim.” Another post called “upon all of our people in the West Bank, particularly in Hebron, especially the educated and influential groups, to seriously confront these people to cut off their dirty hands from our land, our children, and our religion and ethics.” Reportedly, other statements over the period also accused individuals and organizations of being “criminals” and of “continuing to spread its corrupt and morally decaying ideas, which aim to destroy the dignity and role of women.” 150. There are concerns that these online statements discredit and threaten women human rights defenders and their organizations for their work promoting women’s rights and the CEDAW Convention, including for their participation in UN Women’s rights fora. 151. This environment has contributed to a heightened climate of fear and insecurity for women human rights defenders and Palestinian civil society organizations promoting gender equality in the West Bank and could intimidate and dissuade them from further interaction with the CEDAW Committee for fear of reprisal. As in previous reporting periods, OHCHR is not aware of any action taken by the Government of the State of Palestine to protect affected women human rights defenders and their organizations from ongoing smears, threats and intimidation related to their work on the implementation of CEDAW and engaging with the United Nations. 149 A/HRC/48/28, Annex II, paras. 162–166 and A/HRC/54/61, Annex II, para. 144-147, A/HRC.57/60, 182-185. 73