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Event Summary: ‘Perpetuating Statelessness? UNRWA, Its Activities and Funding’

This is an event summary of a speech given by Bassam Eid, Director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, Dr. Arnon Groiss, Director of Research for the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural...

UNRWA’s “Peace Starts Here” campaign silently dies

In 2010, to some fanfare, UNRWA launched a campaign called "Peace Starts Here." Its flagship video, only viewed some 11,000 times in four years, uses the word "peace" a lot but never really defines what...

Amazing that UNRWA can say this with a straight face

The most recent report of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the UN, covering 2013, includes this head-scratcher of a line: "The situation also affected the 1.9 million registered Palestine refugees in the State of Palestine." So...

Brazil’s admission to the Advisory Commission of UNRWA

The United Nations General Assembly has decided, by Resolution 69/86, to admit Brazil as a member of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...

One for the Gunness Book of Records: The myth of an UNRWA policy of...

“We Are Returning Returning, returning, we are returning Borders shall not exist, nor citadels and fortresses Cry out, O those who have left: We are returning Returning to the homes, to the valleys, to the mountains Under the flag of...

UNRWA Expands Refugee Status To Pets, Furniture

Jerusalem, December 19 – The United Nations agency tasked with caring for the descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war over Israel’s creation has broadened its unique definition of “refugee” to include the...

Legislators who Fund UNRWA Confronted with Reality of… UNRWA Education for War

11 December 2014   To: Ms. Imogen Atkinson Office of David Burrowes MP, Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate From: David Bedein, Director, Israel Resource News Agency & Center for Near East Policy Research Thank you for your kind...

“Perpetuating Statelessness” – UNRWA its activities and funding

Eve Swabe, Tony Etherton, Tanya Warburg and Helene Briskman of the B’nai B’rith London Bureau of International Affairs recently attended an event at Portcullis House, organised by the Henry Jackson Society in conjunction with...

Palestinian Activist Bassem Eid Calls for UNRWA Reform

VOI's Arab Affairs correspondent and founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, Bassem Eid, explains his plan to to reform UNRWA. http://www.voiceofisrael.com/palestinian-activist-calls-bassem-eid-calls-unrwa-reform/
UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza. Photo: United Nations

A Palestinian Refugee Explains Why He Doesn’t Want UNRWA’s Help Ever

In a candid interview with Arab Affairs correspondent Bassem Eid, VOI's Molly Livingstone gets to the personal issue of why a Palestinian refugee doesn't believe that UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) truly...