BADIL 2003 – 2004 Expert Forum for the

Promotion of a Rights-Based Approach to the Palestinian Refugee Question

  List of Participants

 Closing the Gaps:

from Protection to Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees 

Hosted by the Al-Ahram Center for Strategic and Political Studies. Cairo, 5 – 8 March 2004

• Abdallah Abueid, professor of international law and human rights, Birzeit University Institute of Law; Palestine;

• Kassem Aina, head, Palestinian NGO Forum, Lebanon;

• Khaled Alazar, researcher, Cairo;

• Abdullah Al-Hourani, head, popular consortium/right of return, Gaza;

• Shafiq Almasri, professor of international law, AUB, Beirut;

• Susan Akram, Boston University School of Law;

• Fateh Azzam, director, Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at AUC, Cairo;

• Ellis Boal, Middle East Subcommittee, National Lawyers Guild, USA;

• Gail Boling, senior research associate, Birzeit University Department of Law;

• Leila El-Ali, executive director, Najdeh, Lebanon;

• Damtew Dessalegne, Ass. Regional Representative, UNHCR-Cairo;

• Randa Farah, Ass. Prof, Dept. of Anthropology Social Science Center, London, Ontario;

• Ana Lina Franch, Regional Representative, UNHCR-Cairo;

• Brenda Goddard, Legal Advisor, Department for International Protection, UNHCR-HQ, Geneva;

• Jeff Handmaker, legal consultant (ICCO, Netherlands);

• Christopher Hein, Director, Italian Council for Refugees; ECRE;

• Safwat Ibraghith, legal advisor, Palestinian delegation to UNESCO;

• Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, director, BADIL;

• Amal Jaziji Yakoub (international law, University of Damascus);

• Harish Parvathaneni, Chief, Policy Analysis Unit, UNRWA (HQ), Gaza;

• Terry Rempel, coordinator of Research and Information, BADIL;

• Mohammed Said, Al-Ahram Center for Strategic and Political Studies (ACSPS), Cairo;

• Joe Schechla, Habitat International Coalition/HIC, Cairo;

• Jaber Suleiman, independent researcher, AIDUN-Lebanon;

• Elna Sondergaard, legal consultant, BADIL;

• Rana Taher, legal advisor for refugees, Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR);

• Lex Takkenberg, academic researcher (UNRWA Syria);

• Gabriela Wenger Habab, Assistant Protection Officer, Legal Unit, CASWANAME, UNHCR-HQ Geneva;

• Waffa Yassir, head, NPA-Lebanon;

• Katarzyna Zdybska; President, Halina Niec Human Rights Association, Kracow, Poland;

• Mieke Zagt, Middle East program officer, ICCO, Netherlands;

Rapporteur:

• Isabelle Humphries, research consultant; PhD candidate, St. Mary's College, Surrey University;

Unable to participate, but wishing to remain informed:

• Oroub El Abed, research consultant, Jordan;

• Reem Alsalem, protection officer, UNHCR Jalalabad;

• Bahey ed-Din Hassan, director, Center for International Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Cairo;

• Mariam Farag, UNHCR Cyprus (previously Cairo), if in Cairo;

• Leila Hilal, legal advisor, Negotiations Support Unit, PLO Negotiations Affairs Department;

• Monique Malha, Senior Legal Officer, Legal Unit, CASWANAME, UNHCR-HQ, Geneva;

• Taher Shash, former PLO Ambassador/Delegate to the Arab League, Egypt;

• Mohammed Sobeih, PLO Ambassador/Delegate to the Arab League, Egypt;

• Prof. John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur on the 1967 OPT;

• Richard Falk, professor emeritus, international law, Princeton University;

• Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, head, ICRC headquarters, Geneva;

• Karen Koning-AbuZayed, deputy high commissioner, UNRWA;

• Mona Rishmawi, UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, Geneva;

• Ismail Zien, Amnesty International, Middle East/North Africa Department;

• Guy Goodwin-Gill, professor of refugee law, All-Souls, Oxford;

• Tom Hill, Phd candidate, Cambridge University;

• Sami Mshasha, Chief, Public Relations, UNRWA;