Topic: United Nations Relief And Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near East

U.N. names human rights probe into Syria crimes

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday named a three-member panel of international experts to investigate human rights violations including possible crimes against humanity since anti-government protests began in Syria in March.Sergio Pinheiro of Brazil will lead the commission of inquiry ...

PLO official accuses Syria of crimes against humanity

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - An assault by Syrian security forces on a Palestinian refugee camp in the coastal city of Latakia amounts to a crime against humanity, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization said."The shelling is taking place using ...

West Bank home demolitions up 'alarmingly': UN

Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank rose "alarmingly" in the first half of 2011, in some cases threatening entire communities, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday.The UN Relief and Works Agency, which looks after Palestinian refugees ...

Palestinian World Record Kite Festival

0 . Palestinian children attend a kite festival organized by the the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in which they attempt to break...

Jobless Gaza enters 5th year of Israeli blockade

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip enters its fifth year of a full Israeli blockade by land, air and sea on Tuesday with unemployment at 45.2 percent, one of the highest rates in the world, a U.N. aid agency report said ...

Gaza protesters leave UN compound

Sixteen protesters who took refuge in a UN compound in Gaza on Thursday to flee from Hamas police left the premises and called off a planned hunger strike, a UN official said."They all left. The authorities in Gaza gave assurances that ...
John Ging, the director of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza to take up a senior position in the UN in New York.. . The 45-year-old...
Suhaib Salem/Reuters. The UNRWA prolongs the Israel-Palestine conflict by ensuring Palestinians remain refugees.. . By Michael S. Bernstam....
The denouement of the historic Struggle To Wrest $700 From The Zionist Clutches Of The UBC Alma Mater Society unfolded Wednesday night with a...
UN plans to address Gaza's schooling shortage have hit a wall, with Israel banning the construction of two new schools on a site it says could be targeted in strikes on Hamas.The two schools at the centre of the dispute ...