Title
UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
6-2014
Editor(s)
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona
ISSN
9780199652433
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
The chapter (Chapter 18) explores the central role of the UN and its subsidiary agencies, particularly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Palestinian refugee problem, especially on the right to durable solutions. The UN established a special regime comprising two agencies, the United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine (UNCCP) and UNRWA, with shared but distinct international obligations towards the displaced Palestinian population. Consequently, the UN decided to exclude Palestinians from the 'universal' refugee regime incorporated in the 1950 UNHCR Statute and the 1951 Refugee Convention. This chapter explores how the key protection of durable solutions has been severed from the refugee definition, and the consequences of relegating Palestinians to weak and widely disparate rights protections around the world.
Recommended Citation
Susan Akram,
UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees,
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
227
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/137
SSRN URL
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2457121
