Dear Friends,
There is a unique opportunity now for the Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon to get some basic civil rights, such as access to education and
health care. This initiative in no way is impeding their Right of
Return. To have such civil rights will give the ca. 400,000 Palestinians
in Lebanon, particularly the children in the camps who are 4th
generation refugees a bit of hope for a better future.
So please put your name on and sign the below mentioned online petition.
Please also circulate the petition to all of your friends so that a
sufficient number of signatures show that we all care.
Let's help to give the no-hope generation of the Palestinian children in
Lebanon a more positive outlook for an otherwise very bleak future; the
idea, that the deprived situation they, their families, and future
generations are in can change for the better.
We at MSRI/Sponsorship of Palestinian Children urge you to sign and
circulate this petition! It involves an innovative twinning intiative.
Each signer will be twinned with a person living in a Palestinian
refugee camp located in Lebanon. The number of signers required to
secure a personal twinning with each refugee is 433,000.
Please also express your views to those who govern Lebanon and to the
persons living in refugee camps. Civil rights should not be denied to any
refugees!
Thank you.
Lia Syed
Executive Director
MSRI
To: The Cabinet and Parliament of Lebanon
Secondary only to ending the siege of Gaza and achieving Statehood, the
enactment of the basic civil right to work and to own a home for the
hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Refugees living in squalor in
Lebanon is perhaps the most critical and immediately achievable goal of
the Palestinian resistance and the ideals enshrined in the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Friends of Palestine and supporters of basic civil rights, wherever they
live, can help this happen without violence or martyrs by signing and
distributing the Online Petition and by twinning with a Palestinian
Refugee in Lebanon.
We the undersigned from many countries, mindful of the urgent need for
equal human rights for our Palestinian Refugee sisters and brothers in
Lebanon in their Civil, Political, Social and Economic dimensions,
herewith signify our solidarity with Lebanon as this great country nobly
corrects six decades of injustices by enacting civil rights legislation
for her guests from Palestine.
Affixing my name to this petition expresses my wish to personally "twin"
in solidarity with one of Lebanon's Palestinian refugees as they and
their Lebanese hosts continue to work and prepare for their return.
*The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign - Beirut, Lebanon and the Sabra
Shatila Foundation - Beirut, Lebanon & Washington DC. *
Sincerely, (signed)
PLEASE SIGN HERE:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ssfpcrc/petition.html
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