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--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:19:21 +0300 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: For moderation - BADIL Brief No. 5 (announcement) Sender: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> BADIL Resource Center For immediate release, 20-6-2000. ---------------------------------------------------------- Available Now at BADIL: BADIL-Information & Discussion Brief No. 5 (June 2000) "The UNITED NATIONS CONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR PALESTINE, PROTECTION and a DURABLE SOLUTION for PALESTINIAN REFUGEES" (Terry Rempel, Coordinator of Research and Information, BADIL) Summary: BADIL No. 5 is one of a set of three BADIL Briefs (No. 5-7), which examine the special regime (outlined in Brief No. 1) established by the United Nations to provide protection and assistance for Palestinian refugees and promote a durable solution based on the provisions of UN Resolution 194 (III; right of return). Briefs 6 and 7 will provide an overview of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This Brief provides both a historical overview of the work of the United Nations Conciliation Commission (UNCCP, established in 1948) and a critical analysis of its failure to provide international protection and promote a durable solution for Palestinian refugees. The author argues that the failure of the UNCCP to resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees according to the provisions of UN Resolution 194 (III) was related in large part to the internal contradiction of the UNCCP mandate relating to the broad mandate to resolve the Palestinian/Arab - Israeli conflict and the specific provisions affirming the right of the refugees to return to their homes and receive compensation. (Brief No. 5 is based on a larger paper prepared for the International Conference on Palestine Refugees, co-sponsored by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the Arab League, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Paris, 26-27 April 2000.) Also available at BADIL (in Arabic and English): * Brief No. 1: "Reinterpreting Palestinian Refugee Rights Under International Law, and a Framework for Durable Solutions" (Susan Akram, February 2000); * Brief No. 2: "Fora Available for Palestinian Refugee Restitution, Compensation and Related Claims" (Susan Akram, February 2000); * Brief No. 3: "The Evolution of an Independent, Community Based Campaign for Palestinian Refugee Rights in Palestine" (Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, February 2000); * Brief No. 4: "Temporary Protection and its Applicability to the Palestinian Refugee Case" (Susan Akram, June 2000; English only); -------------------------------------------------------- BADIL Resource Center aims to provide a resource pool of alternative, critical and progressive information and analysis on the question of Palestinian refugees in our quest to achieve a just and lasting solution for exiled Palestinians based on the right of return. PO Box 728, Bethlehem, Palestine; tel/fax. 02-2747346; email: [log in to unmask]; website: www.badil.org --- End Forwarded Message --- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%