Informes

By Alister Doyle OSLO, April 25 (Reuters) - International donors are expected to pledge about $1 billion to Palestinians on Thursday to help their recovery from Israeli army assaults, a senior Palestinian official said. Officials at the 21-nation talks in Oslo, including…

Following a closed-door briefing on the latest developments in the Middle East, members of the Security Council today voiced their backing for diplomatic moves to foster positive change in the region. "Members of the Council noted various political efforts aimed at…

UNDAC team was part of an assessment team that visited Bethlehem to assess the humanitarian situation as well as the damage inflicted during the last incursion. The mission was organised by Italian Cooperation and included the World Bank, USAID,…

The Assembly has just opened an urgent debate on the Middle East. A delegation of five Israeli parliamentarians, headed by Haim Ramon,Labour, and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ziad Abu Zayyad, will speak during the debate.

Senior United Nations officials met in New York today with an Israeli delegation to discuss an upcoming UN fact-finding mission mandated to develop accurate information on the recent events in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. During the…

New York, 25 April 2002: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), concerned about the evolving humanitarian crises in the occupied Palestinian territory and the destruction of lives, infrastructure and Palestinian institutions, has drawn up an emergency relief and recovery plan…

International media attention on the Middle East is focused on the devastation in the Jenin refugee camp and the continuing siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity in the West Bank. Refugees International (RI) is also deeply concerned by…

Commission Concludes General Debate on Specific Groups and of the Subcommission, Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, All Other Items Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon presented to the Commission on…

Jessica Barry, British Red Cross delegate, Jenin (24/04/02) The truth about Jenin may never be known, but for those who have been there, the sight of the mounds of rubble, the half torn down houses, the scattered possessions, the festering…

Some of the following points were identified in the WHO Emergency Coordination meeting held today, 24 April from 10-12:00 at the UNDP Offices in East Jerusalem: The main issue overall is still a lack of access. People and health care…