Informes

With hearts full of sadness, PCHR mourns the passing away of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar), and submit sincere consolations to his family and to the Palestinian people who are witnessing severe times as they are seeing their…

Jerusalem - The American people are donating $2 million to a project that will construct, expand or renovate 11 schools in the Jenin and Qalqilya Governorates, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced Tuesday. The project, part of…

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - A Saudi Arabian relief organization today donated US$6.32 million to help the United Nations World Food Programme provide food assistance to hundreds of thousands of impoverished Palestinians. The donation, announced today in Jeddah by the Saudi Committee…

GA/PAL/970 The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement on the passing of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the…

SG/SM/9585, PAL/2016 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was deeply moved to learn of the death of President Yasser Arafat. President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly…

Fifty-ninth General Assembly Plenary 51st & 52nd Meetings (AM & PM) With the number of complex emergencies on the rise worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly today tackled one of the international community’s toughest emerging challenges: the need to…

ISSUES FOR CHILDREN The situation in the West Bank and Gaza continues to be characterized by ongoing violence (incursions, house demolitions), and restrictions on movement (curfews and closures). Furthermore, the long-lasting effects of the crisis in terms of rising poverty…

The Government of Japan has decided to extend assistance of about 4,830,000 dollars in total to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to support its three projects in the educational…

U.S. Agency for International Development provides nearly $4 million through 2006 By Najwa Saad, Washington File Special Correspondent Ramallah, West Bank -- The United States is channeling nearly $4 million through 2006 to promote the development of information and communication technology…

PCHR expresses its great concern over the continued deterioration of Palestinian internal security. This has resulted from the proliferation of small arms and the disregard of the rule of law. Especially by those people who are members of law…