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June 12, 2015

Opportunities for empowerment and inclusion

Posted 2:52pm

by Madeline Bacchus On June 10, a side event to the 8th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities featured a panel on Arab youth with disabilities and the opportunities of empowerment and inclusion they have. The panel addressed cases from Palestine, Syria and Morocco. Among… Read more »

June 12, 2015

New perspectives on education: Palestinian children living with disabilities in refugee camps

Posted 2:24pm

by Madeline Bacchus On Wednesday, June 10, a discussion was hosted by a member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and a member of World Vision on new education perspectives for Palestine refugee children with disabilities living in refugee camps in Lebanon. The setting of the camps is already dangerous for those… Read more »

June 20, 2013

Remembering Palestinian Refugees on World Refugee Day

Posted 5:30pm

by Onaje Crawford To commemorate World Refugee Day, the Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the United Nations (IPWG) hosted “Remembering Palestinian Refugees”, a photo exhibit, film review, and panel discussion highlighting the plight of 7.4 million displaced Palestinians, the largest and longest standing case of forcibly displaced persons. Doug Hostetter, IPWG’s Co-chair, who remarked that… Read more »

May 31, 2013

Education and Indigenous Youth: Jahalin Bedouins

Posted 10:06am

by Brendan Welsh The Twelfth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is currently meeting at the United Nations. The NGO Working Group on Israel-Palestine held a video screening of Nowhere Left to Go and a related briefing on the Jahalin Bedouin in our office on May 22. The briefing again raised the question… Read more »

January 2, 2013

Welcome aboard, Agape House

Posted 11:52pm

From Chicago they came in mid-December, a bold crew sailing the pirate ship Revenge to adventures at Turtle Bay and nearby points of interest. They made anchor at Old Bergen Church in Jersey City and clambered aboard the local trains to make their way to their berth at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church. They spent two days… Read more »

August 24, 2011

The United Nations, Israel and Palestine – Points of Engagement

Posted 9:35pm

The United Nations has been working on the question of Palestine and Israel since the first special session of the UN General Assembly on 28 April 1947, which established a body to investigate the issue and return with its recommendations. Over 60 years later, the range of the UN’s work on the issues has continued… Read more »

May 5, 2011

UNRWA stages its first Gaza Marathon

Posted 11:01pm

From the United Nations News Centre (here’s a slightly different version from UNRWA): 5 May 2011 – Gaza’s first-ever marathon took place today as some 1,500 athletes defied the sweltering heat to compete in a series of running events organized…

Peace Starts Here

Posted 2:30pm

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has launched Peace Starts Here, a Web site that will provide glimpses into the lives of Palestinian refugees. Fifteen short video clips will look at…

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