Reports

Memorandum to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention submitted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, September 2003 Introduction As the Al-Aqsa Intifada enters its fourth year, the cycle of violence which began on 29 September 2000 has…

Quality of life for Palestinian civilians continues to spiral downward in response to on-going hardship, suppression, and displacement due to Israeli military occupation. This month Refugees International returned to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem to witness first…

GA/10162 Fifty-eighth General Assembly Plenary 15th & 16th Meetings (AM & PM) In wake of the diplomatic Quartet's high-level meeting at United Nations Headquarters on Friday, 26 September, at which it expressed "great concern" that recent Israeli and Palestinian attacks…

September 28, 2003 will mark three years of the "Al Aqsa" Intifada. In that time several political initiatives have failed to stop the cycle of violence and destruction. Even today, closure and curfew continue to prevent millions of Palestinians…

Some 1.3 million Palestinian refugees continue to live in recognized camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, approximately three quarters of the more than 600,000 refugees live in…

Director of Research Maureen Lynch just completed an assessment mission to the Middle East. On the West Bank, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, farmers live in tents on their croplands. Students protest the dissection of their campus. A merchant, newly…

In an effort to put the Middle East peace process back on track after weeks of attack and counter-attack by the Israeli and Palestinian sides, the so-called diplomatic Quartet of the United Nations, United States, Russia and European Union…

Press Release No. HQ/G/16/2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amman - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) told a meeting of 27 donor and host governments today of the urgent need for funding for its emergency operations in…

Press Release No. HQ/G/15/2003 Gaza - September 21, 2003 - Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has made a call for a just solution to the long-running Palestine refugee problem in…

By Paul Jeffrey, ACT International Jerusalem, September 17, 2003 - As peace in the Middle East proves elusive once again, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International remains committed to accompanying people in the occupied Palestinian territories as they search for…