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Available Now at BADIL: AL-MAJDAL MAGAZINE Issue no. 16-17

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:

  1. Report and analysis from the third annual meeting of the Palestine Right of Return Coalition (Copenhagen, December 2002);
  2. Palestine speaking tour about refugee return and restitution in Bosnia organized by BADIL (January 2003);
  3. The 2002 Body Shop Human Rights Award to the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced;
  4. Israelis remembering the Nakba in Lod/Lydda (Zochrot);
  5. War crimes: update on the case against Ariel Sharon.

A section dedicated to Refugee Protection:

  1. Critical BADIL analysis of the revised UNHCR Interpretation of the Status of Palestinian Refugees under International Refugee Law (October 2002);
  2. Analysis of recent court judgements in the UK and Australia regarding Palestinian entitlement to protection;
  3. Reports about the growing problem of Palestinian internal displacement (Palestinian Bedouin IDPs, a.o.);
  4. “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).
  5. 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.