www.un.org/unrwa
Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict,
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East, was established by United Nations General
Assembly resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct
relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees.
www.al-awda.org
Al-Awda, is a broad-based, non-partisan, global,
democratic association of grassroots activists and organizational
representatives. Our objective is to educate the international
community to fulfil its legal and moral obligations vis-à-vis
the Palestinian people.
www.uscr.org/world/countryrpt/mideast/2003/lebanon.cfm
Lebanon hosted about 409,000 refugees and
asylum seekers in need of protection in 2002, more than 10 percent
of the population of Lebanon.
www.palestinerefugees.org
The right of return of Palestinian refugees
to their homes in their historic land of Palestine is the only
guarantee for peace in the Middle East. The right of return is
an issue of rights that is not dependent on the generosity of
the Israelis.
www.palestineremembered.com
PalestineRemembered.com is a non-profit organization
whose main aim is to emphasize that the CORE issues of the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict are the DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING (compulsory
population transfer for political gains) of the Palestinian people
for the past five decades.
www.badil.org/Refugees/Palestinian_Refugees.htm
The Palestinian refugee case is the largest
and one of the longest standing refugee cases in the world today.
More than 6 million persons, comprising around three-quarters
of the Palestinian people, and nearly one-third of the global
refugee population, remain without a durable solution to their
plight.
www.palestinecampaign.org
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) was
established during the build-up to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon
in 1982.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoeye
Get a glimpse of life in a refugee camp, photos
and stories by Palestinian children.
www.oneworld.org/al-jana
The Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts
/ AL-JANA is a registered, non-profit Lebanese NGO involved in
the promotion of active learning and creative expression, that
works with low-income communities in Lebanon.
www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/PRRN/papers/sayigh.html
Rosemary Sayigh is a Beirut-based anthropologist,
researcher, and author. Her most recent work, Too Many Enemies
: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon, was published in 1994.
almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/360/362/najdeh
Association Najdeh is a Lebanese NGO that
works in and around the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon,
targeting primarily women and children.
almashriq.hiof.no/base/refugees.html
Refugees and displaced peoples links.
electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at electronicIntifada.net,
publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials
about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media.
www.palestinemonitor.org
At the outbreak of the current Intifada in
September 2000, The Palestinian Non-Governmental Network (PNGO)
perceived a real lack of the Palestinian narrative in the media.
www.enlighten-palestine.org
ENLIGHTEN (Markaz at-Tanwir) are an educational
charity that are currently opening their second I.T. educational
centre in the besieged refugee camp of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.
www.shaml.org
Shaml is an independent non-governmental organization,
dedicated to Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian Diaspora.
It was established in 1994 by a group of concerned academics and
human rights activists who felt the need to examine issues pertaining
to Palestinian refugees in a comparative perspective, encompassing
relevant experiences in other parts of the world.
www.dheisheh-ibdaa.net
Ibdaa:to create something out of nothing.
Ibdaa is a grassroots initiative of Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Founded
in 1995, Ibdaa serves over 1,200 children and young people annually
through various programs, while providing job opportunities to
over 25 families in the camp.
www.passia.org
PASSIA is an Arab non-profit institution located
in Jerusalem/Al-Quds with a financially and legally independent
status. It is not affiliated with any government, political party
or organization. PASSIA seeks to present the Palestinian Question
in its national, Arab and international contexts through academic
research, dialogue and publication.
www.palestinecenter.org
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community
Development was established in 1977 in Washington, DC to provide
education and development assistance to Palestinian communities
in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel.
alaqsaintifada.org
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