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BADIL Resource Center
3 April 2003
For Immediate Release
Available Now at BADIL:
AL-MAJDAL MAGAZINE
Issue no. 16-17 (December 2002 – March 2003)
BADIL English language quarterly; annual subscription fee: US $20; orders to: [email protected]
This special 68-page double-issue of al-Majdal explores the important question:
CAN ISRAEL SEPARATE FROM THE PALESTINIANS?
Refugees, a Two-State Solution, and an End to Conflict”
Guest articles to this topic were contributed by Awni al-Mashni, member of the Fateh Higher Committee, and Ameer Makhoul, director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Associations in 1948 Palestine/Israel. In addition, this issue of al-Majdal includes:
Activity Updates, Campaign for Palestinian Refugee Rights, among them:
- Report and analysis from the third annual meeting of the Palestine Right of Return Coalition (Copenhagen, December 2002);
- Palestine speaking tour about refugee return and restitution in Bosnia organized by BADIL (January 2003);
- The 2002 Body Shop Human Rights Award to the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced;
- Israelis remembering the Nakba in Lod/Lydda (Zochrot);
- War crimes: update on the case against Ariel Sharon.
A section dedicated to Refugee Protection:
- Critical BADIL analysis of the revised UNHCR Interpretation of the Status of Palestinian Refugees under International Refugee Law (October 2002);
- Analysis of recent court judgements in the UK and Australia regarding Palestinian entitlement to protection;
- Reports about the growing problem of Palestinian internal displacement (Palestinian Bedouin IDPs, a.o.);
- “Palestinian Public Perceptions on their Living Conditions, The Role of International and Local Aid during the Second Intifada” by the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva (excerpts).
- List of the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli military forces (October 2002 – March 2003);
Document section:
- Final Statement of the Third Annual Meeting of the Palestine Right of Return Coalition (Copenhagen, December 2002);
- UNHCR Note on the Applicability of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees to Palestinian refugees (October 2002).
Please note: Print copies of this issue will be mailed shortly to our subscribers. A PDF version of al-Majdal 16-17 will be published NEXT week on the BADIL website: www.badil.org/Majdal/al_majdal.