Informes

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For the fourth consecutive year humanitarian agencies are appealing to donors for funding for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The unfortunate need for yet another appeal stems from a largely unchanged humanitarian situation. Poverty rates…

To date, some US$ 15.2 million for 2005 has been received. US$ 3.2 million is urgently needed for health services, educational and psychosocial support. ISSUES FOR CHILDREN Some of the most significant changes in the five-year conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory…

Gaza - The UAE Red Crescent Society is implementing a massive programme to provide Iftar meals to the fasting people in Gaza. According to Yousif Al Haddad, Director of UAE Friends Society which runs RCS activities in Gaza, the…

Rome, 13 October 2005 - Better information on the number and the state of poor people without access to adequate food in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will help reduce the number of food insecure people there, FAO…

INTRODUCTION Since 2000, UNRWA has delivered emergency programming in West Bank and Gaza with the aim of protecting vulnerable refugee population from the worst effects of the countermeasures which Israel has deployed against the intifada. The first…

Introduction Around the world Amnesty International continues to document serious violations of the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons (IDPs). The reluctance of states to provide access to procedures and effective protection to individuals who are…

IP/05/1159 Brussels, 19 September 2005 - On the eve of the Quartet meeting (EU, US, UN and Russia) in New York on 20th September, the European Commission can announce that its allocation to the Palestinians in 2005 will be greater…

(A) Headlines (B) Middle East,Central Asia and Eastern Europe: (1) Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2) Occupied Palestinian Territories (3) Russian Federation (Caucasus) (C) East & Central Africa: (1) Burundi (2) Congo (3) Congo, DR (4) Djibouti (5) Eritrea (6) Ethiopia (7) Kenya (8)…

JERUSALEM - Today the European Union made the largest donation to the United Nations World Food Programme's new operation in the occupied Palestinian territory, giving €8 million (approx. US $10 million) to provide food assistance for almost half a…

Lausanne, le 28 juillet 2005 - A quelques jours du retrait des forces d'occupation israéliennes, peurs et tensions sont à leur comble dans la bande de Gaza. La Fondation Terre des hommes y consolide toutefois ses services nutritionnels et…