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A selection of resources about the Palestinian issue including Embassies of Palestine, Palestinian National Authority Websites, Migration and Refugee Research Centers, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian and Arab Sites in the Diaspora and much more. |
Embassies of Palestine |
WebGaza's References: |
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Palestine Remembered
The Home Of All Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians |
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Ummah
The Islamic website Ummah.com, formerly the Islamic Gateway, is best known for the Ummah Forum, a large English Muslim internet forum. Ummah.com is based in the UK, as are the majority of its voluntary contributors and active forum users. It is fully owned by Waha Media Limited, and is financed entirely through donations. |
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al-Hakawati
al-hakawati Arab Cultural Trust is an independent non-profit educational organization, registered in May 2006. Management and staff are located in Beirut, Lebanon, and New Jersey, USA. |
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Arab Decision
Describes government, civil society, economic and educative institutions of the Arab countries. It clarifies the interactions between such institutions, and shows their key managers (Decision Makers) and ways to contact them. |
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Palestinian Photos
Shows the behavior of Israel in a collective, daily and unconscious level, and when all these individual acts are added we obtain catastrophic consequences, in this case, for the Palestinian people. |
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics aims to develop and enhance the Palestinian official statistical system based on legal grounds that organize the process of data collection and utilization for statistical purposes. |
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. |
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Palestine History
Palestine - Home of history, is a site project dedicated to the current history of Palestine from 1900 and up to today. We in this project aiming to have a ready reference site for all information about the background and current history of the land of Palestine and the conflict on it between Arab and Jews. |
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Palestinian National Authority Websites |
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Migration and Refugee Research Centers |
- Forced Migrations and Refugee Studies at the American University: reports on refugee situation, legislative information, and organizations providing assistance to refugees in a number of countries: Djibouti, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Turkey, Yemen.
- Centre for Refugee Studies (York University) The Centre for Refugee Studies is engaged in research on refugee issues; it informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy and service organizations; and it supports teaching in refugee and migration studies.
- FAFO Refugee Working Group: This group, based at McGill University in Montreal, was created as part of the multilateral talks on refugees launched after the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
- Palestinian Refugee Research Net: This project, sponsored by a consortium of canadian universities and the canadian government, studies and disseminates information about the Palestinian refugee issue.
- Institute for Palestine Studies: IPS publishes the Journal of Palestine Studies, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and a wide variety of books and other materials in English, French, and Arabic. IPS is located in Washington.
- Palestine Land Society (PLS) is an independent non-political scholarly society devoted to research and information on Palestine Land and People.
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International Refugee Issues |
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International Human rights Organizations |
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Palestinian Refugee Centers |
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Palestinian and Arab Sites in the Diaspora |
- Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine: CPAP is the educational arm of the Washington-based Jerusalem fund. CPAP has a very active program of lectures, luncheon briefings, and publications, with a Palestinian perspective, on Palestinian and Israeli-Palestinian affairs and U.S. policy toward the conflict.
- Cafe Arabica: http://www.cafearabica.com/nuke/index.php
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Palestine and the International Law |
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Sites in Palestinian Territories/Israel
Human rights Organizations (in Palestinian territories or Israel) |
- Bimkom: Planners for Planning Rights was established in May 1999 by planners and architects with the goal of strengthening the connection between human rights and spatial planning in Israel.
- Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
- Addameer: A Palestinian human rights organization based in Ramallah that concentrates on the rights of Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza.
- Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee: An Arab-American group that has merged the former National association of Arab Americans with the ADC. They have an active educational and government-liaison program for promoting the rights and welfare of all Arab-Americans as well as peace and justice for Palestinians and the rights of Arabs worldwide.
- Bat Shalom: This Israeli women's organization advocates peace and justice between Israelis and Palestinians and women's rights. It conducts political action and education programs sometimes with Palestinian counterparts.
- B'Tselem: A well-established Israeli human rights organization that focuses on human rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories as well as Israeli-Arabs. It publishes a wide variety of well researched and document studies and engages in other forms of public education and advocacy.
- Palestine Human Rights Monitoring group: This is a Palestinian NGO that monitors violations of Palestinian human rights by both the government of Israel and the Palestinian authority in thorough, precise manner. It also conducts an active program research, publication, and public advocacy. It is the largest and most influential Palestinian human rights organization.
- The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel: This non profit Israeli advocacy group, which is based in Jerusalem, lobbies against torture and related violations of human rights by Israeli authorities and engages in litigation on behalf of victims of torture.
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD): This Jerusalem-based organization works to prevent, to publicize, and to provide relief for Palestinian victims of house demolition in the occupied territories by the Israeli authorities.
http://www.icahd.org/
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Non-governmental organizations |
- 50th anniversary of the Nakba: 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nakba (cataclysm). In human terms, that year saw the mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. In commemoration of these capital events in Palestine history, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center brings you this visual tribute. (in Arabic, English, French and Other Languages)
- Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information: IPCRI, is an Israeli-Palestinian research group that conducts a variety of Israeli-Palestinian projects related to the peace process and to economic and social development. As of early 2002, IPCRI was located in Bethlehem.
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Palestinian National Authority |
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Local Educational and Research Sites |
- Arab American University - Jenin: http://www.aauj.edu/
- "Al-Muqtafi", the Palestinian Legal and Judicial Databank, which has been launched online.
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International Organizations |
- UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA))
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Media and News , Press Releases, Agencies and Alternative Sources |
- Al-Masdar
- Internews Middle East
- Jerusalem Media & Communication Center (JMCC)
- Electronic Intifada
- Alquds newspaper: daily, Arabic graphics format and PDF
- Al-ayyam newspaper: daily, Arabic graphics
- Al-Hayat Al-Jadeedah: daily, Arabic graphics
- Palestine Daily: daily, English (from World News)
- Akhbar Alnaqab Newspaper: Twice per month, Arabic text
- Al-Bayader As-Siyasi: Monthly, in Arabic
- Palestine Times: Monthly in English
- Al-Massar: Bi-monthly, Arabic PDF
- Ar-Risalah Al-'usbuu3iyyah: weekly, Arabic text
- Sawt al-Haqq wal-Hurriyyah: weekly, Arabic graphics
- The Palestine Chronicle: Biweekly, news and comments
- Alburaq (portal, including news in Arabic, part of PalTel)
- Life in Palestine: Pictures and interviews from the local Palestinian street
- WAFA- Palestinian News Agency: (official) local news and weather (Arabic and English) http://www.wafa.pna.net/
- Ramallah Online - has news and comments
- Alternative Information Center (new site): publishers of News From Within (English).
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Refugee Camps |
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Related sites dealing with Palestine |
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