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UNRWA will continue to provide emergency assistance to displaced Palestine refugees, Commissioner-General says on a visit to Syria







UNRWA organizes technology fair showcasing student innovations







Japan funds UNRWA University Scholarship Programme







In Lebanon, Palestine refugee children from Syria in UNRWA schools receive school bags, clothing from UNICEF






Tag: human rights


Response to article in Commentary Magazine

27 March 2011

Your article headlined, “UN organisation erases Holocaust from Palestinian textbooks in Jordan” is based entirely on an article in the Jordan Times which erroneously quotes the UNRWA Director of Operations in Jordan.


Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights


11 February 2011

Statement by Navi Pillay, speaking in Jerusalem on her first visit to the occupied Palestinian territory since she took office.


UNRWA condemns Jerusalem home demolitions and assists affected families

23 December 2010

UNRWA’s West Bank Field Director, Barbara Shenstone, today condemned the demolition of two refugee homes in East Jerusalem.


UNRWA school students elect parliament members


22 December 2010

UNRWA marked the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the launch of school parliament elections throughout the West Bank.


UNRWA Gaza documentary wins film festival award


08 December 2010

No Sharp Objects, an UNRWA documentary that follows a group of Gazan teenagers as they take a remarkable journey to the United States, won the award for Best Film (Human Rights) at the We the Peoples Film Festival in London last month.


Young Presidents’ Organization meets human rights students in Amman


22 November 2010

Three hundred members of the Young Presidents’ Organization and World Presidents’ Organization visited three refugee camps in Jordan last month, where they met representatives of UNRWA’s school parliaments.


UNRWA launches multimedia micro-site on UN Day


24 October 2010

To mark United Nations Day UNRWA has launched a new multimedia micro-site that invites visitors into the lives of Palestine refugees. The site features a series of short films from UNRWA's five fields of operation.


Gazan human rights students impress Norwegian minister


24 August 2010

A group of UNRWA’s top human rights students met the Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in Gaza on their return earlier this month from a ten-day trip to Norway.


ILO and UNRWA statement on socio-economic rights of Palestinians in Lebanon


18 August 2010

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) welcome the developments in parliament yesterday regarding the socio-economic rights of Palestinians.


UNRWA human rights students from Gaza head for Norway


01 August 2010

Ten top performing students in UNRWA’s human rights exams are heading for Norway on a visit funded by the Norwegian Government. They left Gaza accompanied by three teachers on 31 July and will return on 8 August.

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