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Where is UNRWA Going After the Withdrawal from Katif?
In early November, shortly after Israel had pulled out of Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with UNRWA's new commissioner-general, Karen AbuZayd. Shalom suggested, during that meeting, that it might be time for...
Analysis: UNRWA Under Attack
For the last couple of years, UNRWA -- U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees -- has been repeatedly called upon to defend its mission. Established in 1948 and serving the humanitarian needs...
UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?
Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....
UNHCR will not Handle the Descendants of Refugees… Unlike UNRWA
This information was secured from Brenda Goddard, who is with the legal department at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva:
If a refugee situation continues for a long period of time -- as for example it has...
Israel Asks for UNRWA in Gaza to be absorbed by the PA
FM Shalom meets with new UNWRA commissioner
(Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Bureau)
7th November 2005
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday (Sunday, 6 November) held his first meeting with United Nations Works and...
Apply the Principles of UNHCR to the Operation of UNRWA
The UNHCR Model
The international community and most specifically the supporters of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, have for half a century countenanced a situation...
Why does UNRWA exist?
(This article appeared as an oped in the Jerusalem Post of October 28th, 2005)
As the United Nations celebrated its 60th anniversary this fall with a dramatic World Summit, supposedly sweeping reform proposals sought to...
Canada, The Middle East Peace Process, UNRWA and “Right of Return”
Canada plays a unique and almost unreported crucial role in the Middle East Peace Process - holding the gavel of the RWG, the "refugee working group", which oversees the work of UNRWA, the United...
Incorporate UNRWA into UNHCR
Since the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees was established 55 years ago, the number of Palestinians registered on its dole has expanded exponentially. What was originally intended as a temporary...
With UNRWA’s Mandate Up for Renewal on June 30th. Should the UNRWA Mandate be...
There are over 21,000,000 refugees in the world: Some 17,000,000 in various places, for whom UNHCR (UN High Commission for Refugees) has responsibility, and some 4 million Palestinian Arab refugees, for whom UNRWA (UN...
