Empowering Caregivers to Safeguard Children's Rights: Policy Interventions in Occupied Palestinian Territories. Analysis of Save the Children's Case Study

This thesis explores how the Human Rights–Based Approach (HRBA) operates in contexts of protracted crisis by analyzing Save the Children’s work in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) between 2019 and 2025. Through a combination of legal analysis and qualitative content review of key organizational reports, the study examines the gap between the recognition of children’s rights and the protection of their caregivers as co-rights-holders. It finds that while HRBA provides a strong normative framework, its practical impact remains limited when caregiving (the everyday relation that sustains rights) is left invisible in law and policy. The research concludes that recognizing caregivers as essential actors in humanitarian governance is not an auxiliary reform but a structural condition for the realization of children’s rights. In doing so, it proposes a relational interpretation of HRBA, one that anchors human rights not only in institutions and laws but in the lived practices of care that make them real.