
| UNRWA Signs Agreement With Government of Andalucía


| 30 November 2009
 The Andalusian International Development Cooperation Agency of the Regional Government of Andalucía (AACID) and UNRWA today signed a memorandum of understanding. |

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| Human rights promotion

| 24 November 2009
 UNRWA's human rights programme promotes non-violent communication skills, conflict resolution and human rights, and emphasises the importance of tolerance. |

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| Projects in Syria

| 18 November 2009
 Read about projects in Syria including the rehabiliation of Neirab camp and UNRWA's services to Palestine refugees from Iraq. |

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| West Bank education recovery plan launches


| 31 October 2009
 A donor launch for UNRWA’s education recovery plan took place at Shu’fat Girls School in Jerusalem on 31 October. |

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| UNRWA Students Make a Stand Against Poverty


| 19 October 2009
 This year 485,023 UNRWA school children in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, stood up simultaneously and shouted "No to poverty" in protest of their own poverty and the poverty of others throughout the world. |

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| Education

| 17 October 2009
 UNRWA operates one of the largest school systems in the Middle East, with nearly 700 schools, and has been the main provider of primary education to Palestine refugees for sixty years. |

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| Schoolchildren to Stand Up Against Poverty


| 15 October 2009
 In 2009, every UNRWA school child from ages five to eighteen will stand up in protest of their own poverty and the poverty of others throughout the world. |

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| Spain contributes to school rebuilding in Lebanon


| 06 October 2009
 A newly reconstructed school, has been officially inaugurated in El Buss camp in the presence of the Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon and UNRWA's Director of Affairs in Lebanon. |

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| UN celebrates at Global Peace Games


| 29 September 2009
 The 2009 Global Peace Games for Children and Youth were held today at the Palestinian Athletics City in Yarmouk, Damascus. The event aims to bring attention to the important role of young people and sport as tools to promote global peace, friendship and community development. |

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| Blue Balloon flies to Fawwar Camp


| 28 September 2009
 UNRWA’s Blue Balloon mobile, stuffed with music, games, volunteers, scores of good will and, of course, hundreds of blue balloons, wound its way through the Hebron hills in the southern West Bank to share the commemoration of UNRWA’s 60th anniversary with hundreds of children from the Fawwar refugee camp. |

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