Reports

TORONTO / 8 April, 2002 -The Canadian Catholic Organization for DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE (CCODP) is sending $50,000 to Caritas Jerusalem in response to an urgent request from the group for $1.2 million to assist victims of fighting in the…

For the 4th day in a row, PRCS has not been able to reach areas of reported heavy deaths and casualties in both Jenin and Nablus. We remain concerned as to the plight and well being of hundreds. The…

Gaza, April 7, 2002 - Mr Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of UNRWA, the United Nation's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, has called on the Israeli military to cease its bloody assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the…

Situation continues to worsen. Humanitarian crisis looming as over one million people enter day 10 of total curfew. PRCS re-iterates warning of high risk of epidemics in Ramallah and other areas. - Ramallah and Jenin Hospitals report shortages of Oxygen and…

Due to several misquotations in the media regarding TIPH relocation of mission members, the following information is provided. The Head of Mission has decided to relocate about 35 of the TIPH staff for a short period of time. The temporary…

Palestine Crisis Update In the wake of the current and rolling city by city escalation, and in recognition of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian condition in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Islamic Relief Palestine will begin an immediate implementation of a project…

RI Research Director Maureen Lynch recently returned from Lebanon and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The on-going Israeli military action has seriously affected 11 of the 19 refugee camps in the West Bank. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have blocked access…

For many months, violence and tensions have been escalating in the Holy Land. Now, the situation has reached a fever pitch and hope for progress on a peace treaty appears to have been dashed. With media accounts of the…

AI Index: MDE 15/033/2002 United Nations Commission on Human Rights 58th Session (18 March -- 29 April 2002) Item 4: Special Sitting in response to the High Commissioner's Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories JOINT STATEMENT…

Adopts Resolution Condemning Frightening Increase in Loss of Life in the Occupied Territories Commission on Human Rights 58th session 5 April 2002 Afternoon The Commission on Human Rights decided today to ask High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson to head…