‎Palestine‎

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 81 April 1975 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special Issue: UNRWA at the United Nations. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue on UNRWA at the United Nations with the following contents: Foreword; Self-Help at Kalandia; Commissioner-General's Sir John Rennie 29 November Statement to the Special Political Committee on rations: a "persistent uncertainty about the delivery of supplies"; centerfold photospread New UNRWA Photographs of refugees of all ages; Summary of Pledging Conference; A Visitor from the USC Unitarian Service Committee of Canada; UN General Assembly Resolutions Pertaining to UNRWA with text; Senator George McGovern at Marka camp with photo. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1975. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008231

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 50 October 1966 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special issue on UNRWA projects. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special issue on UNRWA projects with cover photo "Against a background of one of the largest refugee camps in the Middle East Ein Sultan these Palestine refugee children play on the rocky slopes of the Mount of Temptation which overlooks the camp and the ancient city of Jericho in Jordan." Contents include: A Message from the Commissioner-General of UNRWA Laurence Michelmore; UNRWA and the Palestine Refugees; School Construction; Vocational Training; For Young Refugees New Lives profiles with photos of George Saad Libebeh Nashashibi and Ahmed Dahsheh; The Vocational Training Scholarship Programme; University Scholarships; Home Economics Training; New Health Centres; Rehydration/Nutrition Centres with before and after photos of Muhammed Suliman Ali a refugee baby whose family lives in the Gaza Strip on admission to the Rehydration/Nutrition Centre and on discharge. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1966. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008201

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 19 September 1962 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special Issue on the Gaza Strip. Offered is issue No. 19 of "Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter" September 1962 published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at the UNESCO Building in Beirut Lebanon. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue on The Gaza Strip with topics: Introduction; Before 1948; In 1948; Today; UNRWA In Gaza; The Refugees; Rations; Supplementary Feeding; The Camps; Education; Vocational Training; Welfare; Health; Gaza Without UNRWA; and The UAR Government. The issue contains four photographs and full-page map of the Gaza Strip showing the location of UNRWA Camps; UNRWA Schools; UNRWA Clinics; UNRWA Welfare Activities; Sand Dunes; Roads; Railway; Towns and Villages; and the Armistice Demarcation Line. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1962. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008171

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 89 June 1979 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of Mahmoud Taher head teacher at Mieh Mieh school near Sidon Lebanon; Rendevous in Sinai "How books make their long journey from the printer to Gaza schools"; Health Needs of Refugee Children "A report to the Secretary-General on the health of Palestine refugee children"; The Proud Tower "A self-help project at Mieh Mieh camp in Lebanon"; Impressions and Ideas "Part 2: Essays from Jordan School Children"; The Courage of Kifaya "The story of a refugee child in Gaza". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1979. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008239

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 101 January 1983 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "Ein el-Hilweh. Clearing operations"; Lebanon Emergency "UNRWA operations in Lebanon are gradually getting back to normal with three-quarters of the UNRWA schools now open and medical services at 90 percent of the prewar level. The most serious problem remaining is the rehousing of the homeless. This issue of the Newsletter provides an update on the situation and a report on conditions as seen in late autumn"; UNRWA Operations in the S.A.R. "The UNRWA Field Office Damascus Syrian Arab Republic became the focal point for supplies into Lebanon early in the 1982 emergency and for a few weeks when Beirut was cut off had responsibility for the Beqa'a and Tripoli areas of Lebanon"; Improving UNRWA Services "In August 1982 Commissioner-General Olof Rydbeck announced the phasing out of UNRWA's basic ration programme. The poorest refugees however will continue to receive food rations and increased welfare assistance and the Agency is strengthening and improving its education and health programmes"; Doubly Disabled "A report by David Ward on care for the mentally retarded in Jordan at the Swedish Home outside Amman and at a centre in Baqa'a refugee camp". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1983. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008251

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 68 June-July 1971 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "Tawjihi examination papers from the Gaza Strip are packed for shipment to Cairo"; news items Commentary; The Commissioner-General Sir John Rennie Reports on UNRWA Finances to the Working Group with detailed tables; Teaching Teachers: An In-Service Training Institute; Wadi Seer Doubles in Size the UNRWA/UNESCO vocational training centre for Palestine refugees near Amman Jordan; UNESCO Organizes Educational Examinations in Occupied Gaza Strip; Health Education - An Undramatic but Positive Approach; Supplementary Feeding Keeps Malnutrition at Bay; Self-Help on the West Bank "Kalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem looks very much like a village. The more than 3000 refugees of 1948 who live in Kalandia have as part of a self-help project donated much time and effort toward improving their community". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1971. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008218

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 90 September 1979 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "Twelve-year-old Abdel Rahim Alaksham starts his day at Beach Camp Gaza helping his brothers prepare for the day's fishing"; News About UNRWA "UNRWA's new Commissioner-General Olof Rydbeck has taken up his duties"; Refugees Displaced Again "Continuing attacks in Lebanon have displaced thousands of refugees again this year. Two reports describe living conditions and how refugees are coping with the situation"; Beach Camp "More than 34000 Palestine refugees are crowded into Beach Camp in the Gaza Strip. This photo story by UNRWA photographer George Nehmeh shows life in the camp for a 12-year-old schoolboy"; The Right to Education "Dr. Caroline Ellwood became interested in the education of Palestine refugee children through her work teaching children of UNRWA employees at the Vienna International School. Dr. Ellwood gives her impressions of UNRWA's educational system in the Middle East". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1979. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008240

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 44 November-December 1965 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo and inside feature Winter Comes - and Nawal is Alive "Nawal Deeb Mohammad's first summer was almost her last. Now a robust healthy 10-month-old baby she plays happily in the yard of her family' mud-brick hut in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the Jordan Valley near the ancient city of Jericho. A few months ago Nawal was little more than a skeleton - wasted shrunken and fast approaching death. She was a victim of gastro-enteritis the number-one baby-killer among the refugee population"; Commissioner-General's Statement to the Special Political Committee Mr. Laurence Michelmore; "Swedish" Fishing Village Built in Gaza; Parcels from Home - For Needy Refugees; news items In Brief including Visitors and Donations. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1965. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008196

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 17 June 1962 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special issue devoted entirely to the subject of teacher training and vocational training for refugee girls. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Well-illustrated with photos the contents of this special issue are: photos of three young refugee women "These girls are members of a new generation in the Middle East" with profile of Saud Massad; The Scholarship Plan - Facts and Figures; Knowledge Among the Olives "In the treeless kingdom of Jordan every tree is an item of value revered by the people and protected by the government. The site chosen for the UNRWA Girls' Training Centre at Ramallah was a terraced olive grove on the summit of a hill overlooking the town" with four photos; Why Vocational Training for Girls; A New Role for Refugee Girls. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1962. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008169

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 99 May 1982 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: News about UNRWA "The 36th session of the United Nations General Assembly continued its work long after its normal closing date. One of the items of unfinished business was the financing of UNRWA. In March the General Assembly received and accepted a report on UNRWA's finances prepared by the Working Group on the Financing of UNRWA"; NGOs and UNRWA "In 1950 UNRWA took over the work of a number of voluntary organisations which were helping Palestine refugees. In this issue of Palestine Refugees Today five pages are devoted to the important work of some of these nongovernmental and other organisations which support schools clinics kindergartens and other UNRWA projects. Some organisations also have their own programmes of assistance to Palestine refugees"; Japan and UNRWA "Japan has become an important contributor to UNRWA. In 1982 the Government of Japan is donating $7 million in cash plus several million dollars' worth of food to the Agency. Recently a new link with Japan has been formed with the appointment of an UNRWA/UNESCO vocational training specialist who has worked for many years in the Japanese electronics industry". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1982. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008249

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 60 May-June-July 1969 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Denmark Contributes $500000 to UNRWA; Firyal Shalaby: An UNRWA Teacher at Work; UNRWA's Supply Division Keeps the Wheels Turning a lengthy report with photos - "Each month the Palestine refugees eligible for UNRWA rations receive 10 kilos - 22 lbs - of flour 600 grams - 1.3 lb - of sugar and the same of pulses - dried beans peas broad-beans chickpeas and lentils 500 grams - 1.1 lb - of rice and 375 grams - 13 oz. - of edible oil or fat. In the five winter months a further 400 grams of flour and 300 grams of pulses are added to this basic ration"; Voluntary Agency Spotlight: CORSO The New Zealand Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas; UNRWA and the Lutheran World Federation in the West Bank: An Essay in Co-operation. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1969. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008210

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 117 January 1987 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: front cover photo "1987 marks 20 years since the June 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This family fled the West Bank in 1967 to Jaramana camp in Damascus the Syrian Arab Republic. The photos show the family today and in 1967 in a tent"; UNRWA News "UNRWA's 1985/86 annual report issued in New York OPEC provides funds for Augusta Victoria Hospital and UNRWA looks at closer collaboration with voluntary organisations"; Volunteer at Arroub West Bank "A young Palestine-American spent last summer as a volunteer teaching English at Arroub camp West Bank. He tells his impressions of his summer"; Sociable but Lacking Confidence "A Vienna psychologist reports on the physical and mental state of youngsters attending a YMCA/UNRWA camp for orphans in Jordan"; Mobile Dental Clinic "Through the ingenuity of UNRWA's health and transport staff iin Damascus three camps are now getting the benefit of dental care"; Average Palestine Refugee "Age 27 from a family of three. This is the average Palestine refugee according to UNRWA's refugee registration statistics". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1987. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008267

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 104 October 1983 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "He has rebuilt his home from the bombed out ruins of Ein el Hilweh in the summer of 1982 but his future remains uncertain. The wives and children of two sons in Ansar prison camp and the rest of his family share this small dwelling - a total of 18 persons. His wife is unwell needing a disc operation and he has no steady job earning a little by selling second-hand furniture"; Lebanon Update "The safety of Palestine refugees living in Lebanon has been a major anxiety; a $13 million appeal for the next phase of reconstruction has been made and Siblin Training Centre students help in repairs"; Keeping Up Morale "Diana Lacey has been working with UNRWA in south Lebanon since the summer of 1982 in restoring health services for refugees. She discusses her role and the problems"; Palestinian Artist "Salah Al Attrash is a teacher but painting is his major interest. A photo story shows his life in Jerusalem"; Improving Health Services "UNRWA is expanding its dental care for refugees and introducing a new school health programme this autumn. The emphasis is on prevention". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1983. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008254

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 45 January-February 1966 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Finnish Association for Aid to Refugees Established "Therese Asfour the 18-year-old refugee pictured here and on the cover has the distinction of being the first refugee to be assisted through a newly-established Finnish organization dedicated to aiding the world's refugees. Therese is a trainee at UNRWA's Ramallah Girls' Training Center in Jordan. Her first year of training in the secretarial course is being financed by a scholarship made available through the Finnish Association for Aid to Refugees which was established in December 1965"; Pledging Conference Reveals Critical Deficit; General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Palestine Refugees extending the mandate of UNRWA for three years with text; Belgian Donations Announced; news items In Brief including King Hussein Visits Kalandia Training Center; United Nations Day 1966 Dedicated to Refugees; UNRWA Graduates Assist in Saudi Arabia Telephone Project; Donations; Year-End Registration Figures table of registered refugees and those registered for rations in Jordan the Gaza Strip Lebanon and Syria. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1966. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008197

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 37 November 1964 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special issue on Voluntary Agency Assistance to the Palestine Refugees. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. This special issue on Voluntary Agency Assistance to the Palestine Refugees includes the following contents: Message from the Commissioner-General of UNRWA Laurence Michelmore; Introduction; Voluntary Agencies Active in the Field with profiles of The American Friends of the Middle East; Catholic Relief Services; The Commonwealth Save the Children Fund; Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere; The Lutheran World Federation; The Mennonite Central Committee; The Near East Council of Churches Committee for Refugee Work; The Pontifical Mission for Palestine; Southern Baptist Mission; The Young Men's Christian Association; The Young Women's Christian Association; Voluntary Agencies Assisting the Refugees Through UNRWA Canada Germany New Zealand Norway Sweden United Kingdom United States International Organizations. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1964. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008189

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 20 October 1962 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo showing a panoramic view of the Siblin Vocational Training Centre which opened that month and one of the first trainees at the centre at work in the fitter/machinist workshop; Commissioner-General's Annual Report Issued; news items In Brief including Commissioner-General Dr. John H. Davis in New York; UNRWA Film "Tomorrow Begins Today" Shown at Festival; Visitors - including Viscount and Lady Astor with photo; Donations; First "International" Refugee Sports Competition; The Maple and the Cedar "The maple and the cedar the national symbols of two countries half a world apart - Canada and Lebanon - now stand side by side as evidence of the international cooperation which resulted in the opening early this month of the first UNRWA vocational training centre in Lebanon"; New Training Centre to Be Built With Swedish Donation. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1962. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008172

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 112 October 1985 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "Among the ruins once again Palestine refugees in Shatila camp Beirut June 1985"; News About UNRWA "Commissioner-General plans retirement the Agency scrapes through another year International staff members are kidnapped and contributions for education for young refugees come from AGFUND and the OPEC Fund"; Pioneer in Education for Refugee Women "Field Education Officer/West Bank Saba' Arafat has retired after 23 years with UNRWA. One of her first jobs with the Agency was to promote vocational training for young women with the opening of the Ramallah Women's Training Centre which has turned out over 6000 graduates since it opened in 1962"; Camps War "For a month Palestine refugee neighbourhoods and camps in Beirut were under siege. Photos and first-hand reports tell the story of the war of the camps"; Documenting the Palestine Refugee Story "UNRWA first established an audio-visual section at its Beirut headquarters in 1952. Since then Agency photographers have been documenting the story of UNRWA and the Palestine refugees on film and video". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1985. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008262

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 98 January 1982 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Gloomy Prospect "The annual report of UNRWA's Commissioner-General predicts a budget deficit of $80 million for 1982 and the very real possibility of cuts in programmes"; Average Refugee "He or she is 28 years old comes from a family of four children and was born a refugee according to data compiled by UNRWA. He is one of almost 1.9 million refugees some of whom are fourth generation refugees"; South Lebanon "Medical staff in refugee camps say that Palestine refugee children have been particularly affected by the fighting and increased tension in Lebanon over the past few months. One major additional problem has been the fall in the standard of education with schools being closed for days at a time"; How UNRWA Survives "In its nearly 32 years of existence UNRWA has received enough money to cover its annual budget in full only eight times but the Agency has carried on. How has it been able to survive". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1982. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008248

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‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 64 September-October 1970 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special Issue on the Jordan Crisis. Offered is issue No. 64 of "Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter" September-October 1970 published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at the UNESCO Building in Beirut Lebanon. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue on the Jordan Crisis with cover photo of a "Refugee in Wahdat after the fighting ended." Contents include: Commissioner-General Laurence Michelmore Reports: 30 September "Every effort is now being made and with the greatest urgency to restore UNRWA services to the Palestine refugees in Jordan"; The Schools: Shelters Schools and Other Buildings Badly Damaged; The Homes: Efforts Concentrated on Resumption of Services; The People; Note by the Secretary-General; Commissioner-General Reports: 6 November "The Commissioner-General reports with regret that eleven local staff members of UNRWA were killed in the fighting which took place in Jordan east of the Jordan River in the last half of September"; UNRWA in East Jordan 1970 with details on the Number of Refugees; 250000 Other Displaced Persons; Budget; Shelter; Food Rations; Health; Education; Conflict in Jordan Highlights Importance of UNRWA with map showing towns established camps emergency camps occupied territory armistice line 1948 international frontier and topics Fast Return of Vital UNRWA Services; Usual Health Problems Aggravated; One Third of School Pupils Without Classrooms; International Relief; Refugees Rebuilding; two-page photospread "The hardest hit area was Wahdat also known as New Amman Camp - As the survivors emerged after the ceasefire and those who had left started streaming back formidable problems of water food and hygiene arose which UNRWA was able to help solve"; Digging Out with topics Economic Hardship; Financial Threat to UNRWA; Joint Appeal by Assembly President Edvard Hambro of Norway and Secretary-General U Thant for Humanitarian Aid to Jordan; U Thant Alerts U.N. Member States to UNRWA's Financial Crisis with text of letter sent by U Thant to UN Member States on 17 August 1970; The Financial Statement of UNRWA as of July 1970 - Statement by the Commissioner-General; two-page UNRWA's Log of Recovery by date. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1970. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008214

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 65 November-December 1970 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special Issue: UNRWA at the UN. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 32 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of one-room shelters in Huson east Jordan housing an average of five persons; Summary of UNRWA Annual Report: UNRWA Commissioner-General Warns Agency's Finances Have Reached Breaking Point with topics Background of Problem; Education Programme Threatened; Situation in Host Countries; Excerpts from Commissioner-General's Laurence Michelmore Statement to the United Nations Special Political Committee 18 November: UNRWA Commissioner-General Presents Dire 1970 Report to Special Political Committee of General Assembly with topics Why Costs Have Increased; Economy Measures Carried Out; Developments Since 30 June 1970; UNRWA Services Vital But Tragedy Threatens; Appeal by SPC Chairman - 25 November: Abdul Ghaus SPC Chairman Says 'Imperative' to Eliminate UNRWA's Deficit; Statement of Commissioner-General to Pledging Conference - 30 November: UNRWA's Commissioner-General Describes Agency's Work to Governments; Highlights of Commissioner-General's Remarks to SPC 1 December: Commissioner-General Outlines Budget Cuts and Sets April Deadline for Decision on Education; Statement of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to SPC: U Thant Says UN Liable to Fail Obligations for Price of Painting; General Assembly Resolutions: Text of Resolutions 2672 ABCD XXV Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 8 December 1970; Working Group Report 14 December: General Assembly Working Group on UNRWA Finances Gives Priority to Seeking Increased Assistance; Secretary-General's Statement to Working Group 5 January: Secretary-General Expresses 'Deep Concern' Over UNRWA's Financial Situation; Appeal by UNESCO Director-General 1 January: UNESCO Appeal on Behalf of Refugees 'Right to Education'; Ambassador Mansour Khalid on Rescue Mission: Ambassador on Rescue Mission for Palestine Refugee Education. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1970. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008215

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 110 April 1985 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: front cover photo of refugees in Nahr el-Bared camp Lebanon; Financial Crisis "Financial problems are not new to UNRWA but income continues to drop. Severe cost-cutting measures have been taken starting with the abolition of 38 jobs"; Letter from Tripoli "After the influx of refugees from the south of Lebanon in 1982 and the fierce intra-Palestinian fighting in 1983 the two Palestine refugee camps in the Tripoli seem to be getting back to 'normal'"; Pocket of Brotherhood "Over 1000 Palestine refugees live in an almost forgotten refugee camp in the heart of the Christian area of Lebanon north of Beirut. Thousands left the camp during and after the Lebanese civil war but those who remain live in harmony with their neighbours"; Rented Schools "Almost one-third of UNRWA's 653 schools are in rented premises - some buildings meant to be used as apartments. UNRWA has a plan if money is available to replace these unsatisfactory facilities which will improve the physical surroundings and eventually save money"; Medical Supplies "A U.S. voluntary agency has given over $500000 worth of medical supplies for use by UNRWA in the West Bank and Gaza Strip". . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1985. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008260

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 14 February-March 1962 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: front cover photo of "The Augusta Victoria Hospital Jerusalem Jordan where refugee nurses are being trained thanks to a Swedish World Refugee Year donation"; General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Palestine Refugees with the full text; news items In Brief including Swiss Government Donates 300 Tons of Dried Milk to Palestine Refugees; Belgian Caritas Helps Programme for Refugee Women; U.A.R. Embassy in Rome helps Palestine Refugee Children; others; An Orphanage in Damascus; UNRWA Schools with five centerfold photos; Table of UNRWA Schools showing the number of refugee Boys and Girls enrolled in Elementary Preparatory and Secondary Schools in Jordan Gaza Lebanon and Syria; Swedish Gift Helps to Train Refugee Nurses. Lower staple lightly age-rusted. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1962. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008165

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 78 1974 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. Special Issue: UNRWA at the United Nations. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue: UNRWA at the United Nations with the following contents - Foreword; Report of the Working Group; Commissioner-General's Sir John Rennie 5 November Statement to the Special Political Committee; Commissioner-General's 14 November Statement to the Special Political Committee; Commissioner-General's Statement to the Pledging Conference; Summary of Pledging Conference; Palestine Refugees in the Gaza Strip: Report of the Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim; Return of Persons Displaced Since the 1967 Outbreak of Hostilities: Report of the Secretary-General; General Assembly Resolutions Pertaining to UNRWA with text; Secretary-General's Appeal for Funds for UNRWA. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1974. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008228

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 75 January-February-March 1973 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Beirut Lebanon: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: front cover photo "Lesson in dressmaking by 'Itaf Mustafa Daoud a refugee graduated in 1966 from the UNRWA Ramallah Women's Training Centre and now an instructress at the UNRWA Amman Training Centre"; The Agency's Financial Situation in 1973: Cause for Serious Concern; news items Commentary; Increased EEC European Economic Community Aid for UNRWA; How School Re-opened in Karameh; A New UNRWA Supplementary Feeding Centre Dera's Camp in the Syrian Arab Republic; centerfold photospread on UNRWA's Supplementary Feeding Programme with accompanying table on the Average Number of Beneficiaries 1 July 1971 to 30 June 1972; Measles the Forgotten Killer; Scholarships for Successful Students with profiles of Nada Mustapha Hassan and Basim Asmar. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1973. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008225

‎UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter No. 114 April 1986 Magazine The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees‎

‎Vienna Austria: UNRWA UNESCO Building. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach with immediate goals of providing food health services education training and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of Biddo school West Bank one of the three schools in West Bank being replaced by a grant AGFUND; UNRWA News; New Source of Funds for Building Schools "The Arab Gulf Fund for UN Development Programmes has donated $1.4 million to UNRWA so that the Agency can build three new schools in the West Bank"; Reaching for the Top "A 32-year-old graduate of UNRWA's Amman Training Centre is the coach of a highly successful volleyball team from a refugee camp in Amman Jordan"; Food for the Poorest "UNRWA provides food rations and other relief assistance to about 106000 of the two million registered Palestine refugees. A recent shipment of flour for hardship cases arrived at the port of Aqaba Jordan"; A Winner at Something "UNRWA gives preferential admission to its vocational training centres to the handicapped and hardship cases. Three young men attending Wadi Seer training centre in Jordan are among the beneficiaries of this programme"; UNRWA in Figures "Many readers have asked for more statistics about UNRWA. Here's a page of facts and figures about schools clinics and other Agency activities". . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1986. UNRWA, UNESCO Building paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 008264