Rapports

HIGHLIGHTS On 2 November, for the first time, 20 Palestine refugee students from the Rimal Preparatory school in Gaza city connected via Skype with their European peers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The live video call was part of…

HIGHLIGHTS At the end of October 2016, the UNRWA Gender Initiative Programme (GIP) organized an ‘open day on micro-credit institutions in Gaza city and their loans policies’. The open day was part of the “Empowerment Programme for…

Mr. President, I would like to start by thanking Special Coordinator Mladenov for his insightful monthly briefings, which incorporates the humanitarian situation in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. Mr. President, Humanitarian needs continue to be far too high.…

Communications with Communities (CwC) is an approach within the field of humanitarian response that helps to meet the information and communications needs of people affected by protracted and acute crises. Through CwC, UNRWA provides Palestine refugees…

GENEVA (26 September 2016) – Reducing violence against women and promoting gender equality are two underused tools in bridging fragmented and divided communities and achieving peace, said United Nations human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović, at the…

A Trócaire programme officer reports on a recent trip to Gaza where she met with partner organisations and programme participants who are working to rebuild and improve living conditions in the aftermath of the 2014 offensive…

On 30 May, the UNRWA Gaza Training Centre (GTC) in Gaza city opened its “photo and story” exhibition in the GTC’s conference hall, displaying the work of the Centre’s first year graphic design students, as produced…

On 23 May the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) welcomed the decision to resume the private import of cement into Gaza. The suspension of private cement imports…

Female Heads of Households (FHH) in the Gaza Strip remain a particularly vulnerable group subject to marginalization, greater poverty levels and social stigmatization. To counter this hardship and poverty often experienced by FHHs, the UNRWA Gender…

PR/EN/170416/17 On the occasion of Palestinians Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) calls for an end to ongoing collective punishment by Israeli occupation forces in the form of mass arrest campaigns, rapidly increasing use…