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At a solemn meeting commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian people, United Nations officials today renewed their call for peace talks in the troubled Middle East region. "This year's observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the…

Violence, however, had worsened situation; Committee hears calls for renewed efforts by parties, with global support, to reach settlement GA/PAL/876 Committee on Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 261st Meeting (AM) There was a renewed sense of urgency to find a solution to the…

Launched on 3 May 2001 for CHF 2,946,689 for 6 months DREF Allocated: CHF 0 Beneficiaries: 900,000 Period covered: June - October 2001 (last update issued. May 2001);"At a Glance" Appeal coverage: 14.9% Related Appeals: 01.64/01 Middle East & North…

SG/SM/8047 PAL/1899 Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November: This year's observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People takes place at…

UNRWA Press Release HQ/G/04/2000 GAZA - Mr. Takeshi Okubo, head of the representative office of the Government of Japan in Gaza, today signed an agreement to provide funding for four UNRWA educational and health centre projects in the Gaza Strip. At…

Young women at the YWCA secretary school Young women, who look like hostesses in Lebanese music programmes (or like Arabic "spice girls"); young married women; young women who are covered with scarves and long jackets and wear it all day…

Gaza (dpa) - Israeli soldiers opened fire on car in Rafah near the Egyptian border on late Friday, killing a 25-year-old Palestinian man and seriously wounding a 50-year-old woman. According to Palestinian reports, the woman was clinically dead. Earlier reports…

Fifty-sixth General Assembly, GA/SHC/3671/Corr.1 Third Committee 47th Meeting (AM) On pages 1a and 4 of GA/SHC/3671 issued 21 November, a statement made after the vote by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was inadvertently omitted. Following the vote on operative paragraph 1…

MDE 15/105/2001 207/01 Amnesty International welcomed today the landmark conclusion by the Committee against Torture stating that Israel's policy of closures and its demolitions of Palestinian homes "may, in certain instances, amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" in breach…

State Department Expresses Condolences The United States says it deeply regrets the tragic, accidental deaths of five Palestinian children in Gaza November 22. "It was a terrible tragedy and we express sincere condolences to the families of the boys and to…