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Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territory 1987: The Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza is the scene of where the Intifida, or Palestinian uprising, began. Palestine Refugees: 50 Years of Injustice Jabalia camp is the most populated of the 59 Palestinian camps in the Middle East.

Palestinian Costume: A Collection of Traditional Costumes from Palestine


Resources:

Embassies of Palestine

Palestinian Legislative Council:
http://www.pal-plc.org/

Palestinian National Authority Websites


Office of President (Yasser Arafat)

Bethlehem 2000 Project

Science and Technology ( PALESTA)

Ministry of Higher Education

The Cabinet Office

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Information

Ministry of Industry

Ministry of Labour

Ministry of Culture

Ministry of NGOs Affairs

Ministry of Environmental Affairs

Negotiations Affairs Department

Palestine Net

Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics

Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR)

Palestinian Legislative Council

Palestine Monetary Authority

Government Computer Center

The Palestine mission in the UN
 

Migration and Refugee Research Centers.

Refugee Health Research Centre (RHRC).

Research and Training Programme on Migration and the Law. Hassan II - Ain Choch - Casablanca, Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Science, Public Law,

Euro-Mediterranean Databank for Analysis of International Migration

Forced Migration Review (Oxford University)

Institute of International Studies 

Forced Migrations and Refugee Studies at the American University: reports on refugee situation, legislative information, and organizations providing assistance to refugees in a number of countries: Djibouti, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Turkey, Yemen.

Centre for Refugee Studies (York University) The Centre for Refugee Studies is engaged in research on refugee issues; it informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy and service organizations; and it supports teaching in refugee and migration studies.

FAFO Refugee Working Group: This group, based at McGill University in Montreal, was created as part of the multilateral talks on refugees launched after the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.

Palestinian Refugee Research Net: This project, sponsored by a consortium of canadian universities and the canadian government, studies and disseminates information about the Palestinian refugee issue.

Institute for Palestine Studies: IPS publishes the Journal of Palestine Studies, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and a wide variety of books and other materials in English, French, and Arabic. IPS is located in Washington.

Palestine Land Society (PLS) is an independent non-political scholarly society devoted to research and information on Palestine Land and People.

 

International Refugee Issues

Refugee Site for Kids (in English)

 

International Human rights Organizations

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

 

Palestinian Refugee Centers

Association of Forty

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (Al-Awda)

Resources for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (Badil) 

 

Palestinian and Arab Sites in the Diaspora

Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine: CPAP is the educational arm of the Washington-based Jerusalem fund. CPAP has a very active program of lectures, luncheon briefings, and publications, with a Palestinian perspective, on Palestinian and Israeli-Palestinian affairs and U.S. policy toward the conflict.

Palestine Remembered

Palestinian American Congress (Arab American Activists)

American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine 

Deir Yassin Online Information Center

American Committee on Jerusalem 

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 

The Arab American Action Network 

Association of Arab-American University Graduates

Cafe Arabica

 

Palestine and the International Law

United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court

Foundation for Middle East Peace

 

Sites in Palestinian Territories/Israel

Human rights Organizations (in Palestinian territories or Israel)

Bimkom:  Planners for Planning Rights was established in May 1999 by planners and architects with the goal of strengthening the connection between human rights and spatial planning in Israel.

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

Addameer: A Palestinian human rights organization based in Ramallah that concentrates on the rights of Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza.

Amnesty International (Israel & Occupied Territories): Amnesty is the London-based international NGO that prepares authoritative studies of human rights world wide.

Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee: An Arab-American group that has merged the former National association of Arab Americans with the ADC. They have an active educational and government-liaison program for promoting the rights and welfare of all Arab-Americans as well as peace and justice for Palestinians and the rights of Arabs worldwide.

Bat Shalom: This Israeli women's organization advocates peace and justice between Israelis and Palestinians and women's rights. It conducts political action and education programs sometimes with Palestinian counterparts.

B'Tselem: A well-established Israeli human rights organization that focuses on human rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories as well as Israeli-Arabs. It publishes a wide variety of well researched and document studies and engages in other forms of public education and advocacy.

Human Rights Watch: This New York based worldwide human rights organization covers human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict extensively.

LAW: The Palestinian Center for the Protection of Human Rights & the Environment: This human rights group established by a group of Palestinian lawyers maintains an extensive website on Palestinian human rights, legal issues, and related subjects.

Palestinian Center for Human Rights: This Gaza-based Palestinian human rights groups concentrates on human rights issues in Gaza.

Palestine Human Rights Monitoring group: This is a Palestinian NGO that monitors violations of Palestinian human rights by both the government of Israel and the Palestinian authority in thorough, precise manner. It also conducts an active program research, publication, and public advocacy. It is the largest and most influential Palestinian human rights organization.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel: This non profit Israeli advocacy group, which is based in Jerusalem, lobbies against torture and related violations of human rights by Israeli authorities and engages in litigation on behalf of victims of torture.

Rabbis for Human Rights: This Israeli organization gives voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights. It was founded in 1988 in response to serious abuses of human rights by the Israeli military in the occupied territories. RHR publicizes causes, helps victims, engages in civil disobedience, and promotes Jewish ecumencial dialogue and education in human rights

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD): This Jerusalem-based organization works to prevent, to publicize, and to provide relief for Palestinian victims of house demolition in the occupied territories by the Israeli authorities.

 

Non-governmental organizations

The Golan Heights (Arabic)

Save the Children Eye to Eye

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy (Miftah) 

50th anniversary of the Nakba: 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nakba (cataclysm). In human terms, that year saw the mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. In commemoration of these capital events in Palestine history, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center brings you this visual tribute. (in Arabic, English, French and Other Languages)

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre (KSCC)

Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute: This is a Palestinian information and advocacy group that provides and disseminates information on Palestinian health, development, and related issues.

Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information: IPCRI, is an Israeli-Palestinian research group that conducts a variety of Israeli-Palestinian projects related to the peace process and to economic and social development. As of early 2002, IPCRI was located in Bethlehem.

Palestinian Development Gateway- Refugees and Diaspora

 

Palestinian National Authority

Negotiations Affairs Department

Bethlehem 2000 Project

Negotiations Affairs Department

Palestine Net

Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR)

Palestine Monetary Authority

 

Local Educational and Research Sites

Al-Azhar University of Gaza

Al-Najah University

Al-Quds University

Arab American University - Jenin

Bethlehem University

Birzeit University

Hebron University

Ibrahimieh College

Islamic University

"Al-Muqtafi", the Palestinian Legal and Judicial Databank, which has been launched online.

Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ): ARIJ, a Palestinian group, prepares research studies on environmental, scientific, land, water, resource, and Israeli settlement issues in the West bank and Gaza.

Institute for Jerusalem Studies: An affiliate of the Institute for Palestinian Studies, which sponsors the Journal of Palestinian Studies, the Institute for Jerusalem Studies publishes the Jerusalem Quarterly which focuses on Jerusalem from a Palestinian perspective.

The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA): A Palestinian organization located in Jerusalem, PASSIA holds conferences and seminars and publishes a wide variety of studies on Palestinian and Israeli-Palestinian issues and an annual diary.

 

International organizations 

UNRWA Home Page (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA))

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

Arabic Media Internet Network

 

Media & News , Press Releases, Agencies & Alternative Sources

Al-Masdar

Internews Middle East

Jerusalem Media & Communication Center (JMCC)

Electronic Intifada

 

Refugee Camps

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Nahr Elbared

 

Related sites dealing with Palestine

Sambar For Pins

 

 

 

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