Rapports

Project Name: West Bank and Gaza-Emergency Services Support Project Region: Middle East and North Africa Region Sector: Primary Education; Primary Health; Including Reproductive Health; Chi; Non-Sector Specific;Urban Environment Project ID: XOPE75984 Borrower(s): PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY Implementing Agency Address: MINISTRY OF FINANCE, SECTOR MINISTRIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Environment…

Ouagadougou, 14 September2001 N° 7 The some 600 MPs (including 141 women) from 112 countries attending at the 106th Inter-Parliamentary Conference of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) adopted four resolutions. One of them "urges the pharmaceutical industry to reduce the prices of medicines,…

By Alain Epp Weaver BEIT SAHOUR, Palestine - Six-year-old Haitham Qaraqe lost an eye a few months ago. Nicola Abu Ghannam, also 6, lost an arm. They are two of more than 2,500 Palestinians left with permanent disabilities caused by…

A worsened humanitarian and political situation would result from the decline in donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of that agency, told correspondents at a…

Islamic Relief expands relief programme in crisis-hit Palestine with a: $115,000 Integrated Care Programme for traumatised children $122,000 Food Assistance Project As the crisis in Palestine persists, with the toll of dead and injured relentlessly rising, Islamic Relief has expanded its relief programme…

B'Tselem to the OC Central Commander: This constitutes a violation of the most fundamental rules of international law. B'Tselem completed its investigation of the IDF incursions into Beit Jala and the subsequent takeover of residents' houses on August 14, 2001 and…

Al Mawasi is an agriculturally fertile strip of land laying parallel to the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza. The 16-kilometer-long strip starts in the city of Rafah and extends throughout Khan Yunis until it reaches the city of Deir Al…

The Community Based Rehabilitation program in UPMRC is considered one of the leading rehabilitation programs in the country. The program aims foremost at achieving full social integration of disabled persons into their own communities by maximum utilization of existing community…

Heartbreaking reports of death and destruction are pouring out of Jerusalem, where violence has flared between Israeli forces and Palestinians. (Click here for a link to a telephone interview, prepared for radio by Standard News Network, with Mary Kate…

Background During August security conditions continued to deteriorate, with rising numbers of deaths and injuries and damage to property. UNRWA's West Bank field staff reported the greatest difficulties of mobility and access since the start of the crisis. Numerous confrontations and…