12 January 2012 10 December was International Human Rights Day, the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. To mark the day, OHCHR (oPT) and UNRWA have put the spotlight on human rights stories and rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory.
03 January 2012 10 December was International Human Rights Day, the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. To mark the day, OHCHR (oPT) and UNRWA are putting the spotlight on human rights stories and rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory.
01 November 2011 Demolitions and the threat of displacement are ruining people’s lives in the West Bank. We want to put a stop to the devastating practice of demolition. We need your help!
06 September 2011 On their first day back at school, students at four UNRWA schools in Jordan have twinned their schools with a school under threat of demolition in the West Bank.
01 September 2011 Alarming developments in the West Bank community of Khan al Ahmar. Settlers from Kfar Adumim have filed a petition against the school, asking for an injunction not to re-open the school this September and pushing for the school to be swiftly demolished.
02 August 2011 Demolitions by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank have escalated alarmingly. Figures released today by UNRWA show that 700 people were displaced in the first six months of 2011 (excluding July), compared with 594 in the whole of 2010.
31 July 2011 Residents of the Bedouin village of Wadi Abu Hindi gathered on Wednesday outside the school to watch performances by local kids on the last day of a summer camp run by UNRWA.
09 June 2011 UNRWA has released its latest monthly figures relating to the Israeli practice of demolitions in the West Bank, which show a record number of children displaced.