Rapports

SC/7697 Security Council 4722nd Meeting (PM) "As we move towards war in one part of the region, I trust we will not miss the opportunity to move towards peace in the other", Special Coordinator for the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen told the…

The humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) continues to deteriorate. The World Bank reports real per capita incomes are now half their September 2000 level and unemployment stands at 53 percent of the workforce. The food program of…

The measures the Israeli army have taken to diminish the chance of terror attacks in Israel have had disastrous consequences on the Palestinian economy. The unemployment rate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will soon pass 63.3%. Palestinians…

The United Nations agency assisting Palestine refugees said today that it has received contributions towards its 2003 emergency appeal that will enable it to continue essential emergency assistance activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. On 10 February, the head of…

War in Iraq would devastate ongoing aid work' JERUSALEM -- World Vision, the international Christian humanitarian organization, is transporting food, blankets and other relief supplies to communities in Gaza and the West Bank that would be hardest hit by curfews and…

JERUSALEM, 15 March 2003 -- In an unprecedented call for protection, international, Israeli and Palestinian aid agencies* joined together today to call upon the Government of Israel to ensure that its military respects the neutrality of all health personnel, services…

In preparation for a war on Iraq and its possible repercussions in Gaza, Word Vision is pre-positioning 2,500 relief kits in high risk locations. Based on the experience of the first Gulf War, transporting humanitarian relief items as well as…

WOM/1396 Commission on Status of Women Forty-seventh Session 9th Meeting (PM) As the Commission on the Status of Women met this afternoon, it decided to adopt, without a vote, the provisional agenda for its forty-eighth session and heard introductions of draft resolutions on…

IP/03/340 Brussels, 7th March 2003 - The European Commission today approved a contribution of €57.75 million for the year 2003 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The EU funds will provide support to the…

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) expresses its serious concern regarding the severity of the military operations conducted by Israeli forces in the occupied territories. According to information from B'tselem, an Israeli organistion for the defence of human…