On Planning for Development:
Migration and Disasters
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rural development - agrarian policies - agribusiness - landgrab - food - poverty - globalization
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Róbinson Rojas - 2012
Occupied Palestine Territory by
Israel. Some Facts
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UNRWA
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East
UNRWA (the United Nations Relief
and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) provides
assistance, protection and advocacy for some 5 million registered
Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the occupied
Palestinian territory, pending a solution to their plight.
UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN
member states.
UNRWA
and
the
Palestinian Refugees after Sixty Years: Some Reflections
Lex
Takkenberg (Guest Editor)
Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos 2 & 3, 2010
UNRWA
and the
Palestinian Refugees: A History Within History
Riccardo
Bocco (Guest Editor)
Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos 2 & 3, 2010
The
Mandate of UNRWA
at Sixty
Lance
Bartholomeusz Refugee Survey
Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos 2 & 3, 2010
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Sixty years after
'al-Nakba' in Palestine
Palestinian right of return still a fundamental demand
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - By:
Richard Becker
May 14 marks the 60th anniversary of what is billed in the U.S. and
Israeli mainstream media as Israel’s "independence," and what the
Palestinian and Arab peoples as a whole know as al-Nakba—the
Catastrophe. To make way for the creation of the Israeli settler state,
more than 80 percent of the Palestinian population was driven out of
their homeland by means of terror.
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International Organization for Migration
IOM works to help ensure the
orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international
cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical
solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance
to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced
people.
The IOM Constitution recognizes the link between migration and
economic, social and cultural development, as well as to the right of
freedom of movement.
IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management:
Migration and development
Facilitating migration
Regulating migration
Forced migration.
IOM activities that cut across these areas include the promotion of
international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of
migrants' rights, migration health and the gender dimension of
migration.
About migration :
facts and figures, key migration terms, migration law database,
UN documents
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B'Tselem - The Israeli
Information Center for
Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights
in the
Occupied Territories was established in 1989 by a group of prominent
academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to
document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human
rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of
denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human
rights culture in Israel.
B'Tselem in Hebrew literally means "in the image of," and is also used
as a synonym for human dignity. The word is taken from Genesis 1:27
"And God created humans in his image. In the image of God did He create
him." It is in this spirit that the first article of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights states that "All human beings are born
equal in dignity and rights."
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Boycott Companies Violating
Human Rights Of The Palestinians, Says UN Expert
Call to boycott Caterpillar,
Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Veolia Environment, G4S, Dexia, Volvo Group,
Assa Abloy, Ahava, Elbit Systems, Mehadrin, Riwal Holding Group and
Cemex has been made by the UN special investigator on human rights in
the Palestinian territories. These companies are violating
international human rights and humanitarian laws by exploiting
Palestinian resources and helping Israel construct illegal settlements
and provide security for them.
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From The Globalist
Palestine
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Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Le Haut Commissariat des Nations
Unies pour les réfugiés a été créé le
14 décembre 1950 par l'Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies, avec pour
mandat de coordonner l'action internationale pour la protection des
réfugiés et de chercher des solutions aux problèmes des réfugiés dans
le monde.
Le but premier de l'UNHCR est de sauvegarder les droits et le bien-être
des réfugiés. L'agence s'efforce ainsi d'assurer pour tout le respect
du droit à demander l'asile et à trouver refuge dans un autre État. A
terme, les solutions qu'elle met en œuvre sont le retour dans le pays
d'origine, l'intégration dans le pays d'accueil ou la réinstallation
dans un pays tiers.
En plus de cinquante ans d'activité, l'agence a aidé environ 50
millions de personnes à recommencer leur vie. Aujourd'hui, 6 289
employés continuent d'aider environ 32,9 millions de personnes
dans 111 pays.
En 1954 et en 1981 le Prix Nobel de la Paix a été décerné à l’UNHCR.
Occupied
Palestinian Territory
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Global IDP Project
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established in 1998
by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring
conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.
Through
its work, the Centre contributes to improving national and
international capacities to protect and assist the millions of people
around the globe who have been displaced within their own country as a
result of conflicts or human rights violations.
At the request of the United Nations, the Geneva-based IDMC runs an
online database providing comprehensive information and
analysis on internal displacement in some 50 countries. Based on its
monitoring and data collection activities, the Centre advocates for durable solutions to the plight of
the internally displaced in line with international standards. The IDMC
also carries out training activities to enhance the capacity of
local actors to respond to the needs of internally displaced people
(IDPs). In its work, the Centre cooperates with and provides support to
local and national civil society initiatives.
Occupied Palestinian
Territory
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From countercurrents.org:
Palestine
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University of Oxford
Refugee Studies Centre
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982 as part of the
University of Oxford's Department of International Development (QEH).
It has international reputation as the leading multidisciplinary centre
for research and teaching on the causes and consequences of forced
migration.
Forced Migration Review
Forced Migration Review (FMR) is published three
times a year in English, Arabic, Spanish and French by the Refugee
Studies Centre of the Oxford Department of International Development,
University of Oxford. FMR is available free of charge in print and
online. Since it was launched in 1987 it has gained a global reputation
as the most widely read publication on refugee and internal
displacement issues.
Palestinian
Displacement, a case apart? - 2006
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B. S. Chimni (2000)
Globalisation, Humanitarianism and the Erosion
of Refugee Protection
The Dominance of Transnational Capital
The material reality is, however, given shape by transnational capital,
which is unifying
the globe in a bid to maximise returns as opposed to human development.
Thus, the
assets of the top three billionaires in the world are more than the
combined GNP of all
the least developed countries and their 600 million people (HDR 1999:
3). Yet, there
is insufficient recognition that internal conflicts may be traced to
shrinking shares of
marginalised peoples in the globalisation process. Evidence of the
one-sided
globalisation process may be seen in the following examples from the
field of
international law.
Since the early eighties, coinciding incidentally with the beginnings
of the nonentrée
regime, Northern states have pushed through the adoption of a network
of
international instruments that seek to remove ‘national’ impediments to
the entry,
establishment and operation of transnational capital
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United Nations: Peace and Security Portal
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Report of the Panel of United Nations on Peace
Operations 2000
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