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BADIL's Annual Report 2001 BADIL Annual Report 2001 BADIL resource center for Palestinian residency & refugee rights PO Box 728 Bethlehem, Palestine Tel/fax. 02-274-7346 Email: [email protected] website: www.badil.org 1 BADIL Resource Center was established in January 1998 BADIL's Board and Oversight Committee were elected by the first General Assembly convened on 10 March 2000 and affirmed in their position by the second General Assembly convened on 4 May 2001. BADIL General Assembly; Members: Adnan Abelmalik (Nur Shams RC/Nablus) Adnan Ajarmeh (Aida RC/Bethlehem) Afif Ghatashe (Fawwar RC/Hebron) Ahmad As'ad (Al-Far'ah RC/Nablus) Ahmad Muhaisen (Deheishe RC/Bethlehem) Anwar A. Hamam (Balata RC/Nablus) Anwar Abu Lafi (Jerusalem) Ashraf Abu Kheiran (al-Arroub camp/Hebron) Atallah Salem (Deheishe RC/Bethlehem) Ayed Ja'aysah (Al-Far'ah RC/Nablus) Bassam Abu 'Aker (Aida RC/ Bethlehem) Bassam Na'im Hawamda (Camp No.1/Nablus) Bilal Shakhsheer (Nablus) Buthaina Darwish (Beit Jala/USA) Dr. Abdelfattah Abu Srour (Aida Camp/Bethlehem) Dr. Adnan Shehadeh (Arroub RC/Hebron) Dr. Nayef Jarrad (Tulkarem) Eyad Jaraiseh (Beit Sahour) Faisal Salameh (Tulkarem RC/Tulkarem) Fayyez H. Arafat (Balata RC/Nablus) Ghassan M. Khader (Balata RC/Nablus) Hassan al-Barmil (Aida RC/ Bethlehem) Hussam M. Khader (Balata RC/Nablus) Ibrahim Abu Srour (Aida RC/Bethlehem) Imad Shawish (Al-Far'ah RC/Nablus) Ingrid Jaradat Gassner (Beit Jala) Issa Qaraq'a (Aida RC/Bethlehem) Issa Rabadi (Jerusalem) Jamal Ferraj (Deheishe RC/Bethlehem) Jamal Shati (Jenin RC/Jenin) Kamal al-Qeisi (Azza RC/Bethlehem) Khalil al-Azza (Azza RC/Bethlehem) Muhammad al-Lahham (Deheishe RC/Bethlehem (Muhammad Fdeilat (Aksar RC/Nablus) Muhammad Jaradat (Beit Jala) Mustafa Y. Shahab (Nur Shams RC/Nablus) Naji Odeh (Deheishe RC/ Bethlehem) Najwah Darwish (Beit Jala) Rajeh al-Til (Dahariya/Hebron) Rifa' Abu Rish (al-Am'ari Camp/Ramallah) Sahar Francis (Jerusalem) Salem Abu Hawwash (Doura/Hebron) Samir Ata Odeh (Aida RC/Bethlehem) Shaher J. al-Bedawi (Balata RC/Nablus) Tayseer S. Nassrallah (Balata RC/Nablus) Terry Rempel (Bethlehem) Wajih Atallah (Kalandia Camp/Jerusalem) Walid M. Ja'arim (Balata RC/Nablus) Walid Qawasmeh (Ramallah) Wissal F. al-Salem (Nur Shams RC/Nablus) Board: Head of Board: Salem Abu Hawwash (Doura/Hebron) Deputy Head: Tayseer Nasrallah (Balata Camp/Nablus) Board Secretary: Adnan Ajarmeh ('Aida Camp/Bethlehem) Board Treasurer: Bassam Abu Aker ('Aida Camp/Bethlehem) Faisal Salameh (Tulkarem Camp) Ahmad Ass'ad (al-Far'ah Camp/Nablus) Afif Ghatashe (al-Fawwar Camp/Hebron) Dr. Adnan Shehadeh (al-Arroub Camp/Hebron) Dr. Nayef Jarrad (Tulkarem) Oversight Committee: Rajeh al-Til (Dhahariyya/Hebron) Samir 'Odeh ('Aida Camp/Bethlehem) Wissal al-Salem (Nur Shams Camp/Nablus) Executive Committee: Director: Ingrid Jaradat Gassner Admin-Finance Officer: Najwah Darwish Coordinator/Campaign Unit: Muhammad Jaradat Coordinator/Resource Unit: Terry Rempel Coordinator/Legal Unit: Gail Boling 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: BADIL's Environment in 2001 5 I. Institutional Development and Public Relations 7 II. Progress Report 2001: BADIL Program and Projects 11 Introduction: 2001 Program Development Campaign for the Defense of Palestinian Refugee Rights 14 Resource and Information Project 22 Legal Project for the Promotion of Palestinian Refugee Rights 26 III. Assessment: BADIL Program and Projects (1999 - 2001) 30 IV. Financial Report 33 3 4 INTRODUCTION BADIL's Environment in 2001 Against the background of the higher the one hand, and cope with the contributed to the broad lobbying effort than average level of general community tremendous new need for emergency relief by raising the special protection needs of mobilization in the context of the al-Aqsa of the particularly vulnerable population Palestinian refugees, both in the short uprising, the Palestinian refugee of the refugee camps on the other. By term and in the context of a durable community continued to mobilize for their December 2001, 75 percent (UNRWA data) solution based upon UN Resolution 194. right to return and restitution in 2001. This of camp refugees lived under the poverty The broad support for Palestinian rights, mobilization was especially intensive the line, suffering from restrictions on access including the rights of Palestinian first two months of 2001, when Israeli- to health and education services. refugees, among the vast majority of civil Palestinian negotiations were still being Prolonged unemployment, moreover, also society organizations in the world was held in Taba, and in the month of May, had a negative affect on access to illustrated by the solidarity provided by when the Palestinian people adequate food. Rapid impoverishment, the some 3,000 NGOs present at the 3rd commemorated the 53rd anniversary of its deaths and injuries, as well as destruction World Conference Against Racism forcible displacement in 1948. Palestinian of homes and properties, triggered large- (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa (27 refugee community organizations and the scale international emergency aid August -8 September 2001). The final Emergency Committee of National and programs. Local refugee organizations NGO Declaration and Plan of Action Islamic Forces, representing the and emergency committees have issued by the WCAR criticized the over Palestinian popular uprising in the 1967 struggled to come to terms with often 50-years-old discriminatory and occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, bureaucratic procedures of international apartheid-like practices of Zionist Israeli organized numerous local right-of-return aid programs and contributed from their governments, and affirmed the legitimacy marches, rallies and cultural events to own scarce resources. BADIL, as an and urgency of concerted action for the which BADIL provided material and institution lacking both the mandate and Palestinian right to self-determination, financial support within the framework of the financial resources for substantial including Palestinian refugees' right of its limited means. emergency aid, contributed to the local return. An increase of international effort mainly through small scale in-kind awareness and readiness to assist in the Israel's attempt to suppress the new contributions and a special project for development of new strategies for the Palestinian uprising by massive use of medical services. protection of Palestinian refugee rights force, and the lack of prospects for was reflected also in UN reports and political change in the short term, have Palestinian community mobilization, as resolutions issued in 2001 and observed had a devastating impact on the well as concerted Palestinian advocacy by BADIL during its missions abroad. Palestinian community in the occupied and lobbying directed at international West Bank and Gaza Strip in general, and organizations, especially the United By mid-2001, however, the United States its refugees in particular. Refugees and Nations, the European Union, and the - with the complicity of Europe - had their community organizations have had League of Arab States, were instrumental successfully marginalized Palestinian, to accomplish an extremely difficult set of for the creation of increased awareness Arab, and Non-Aligned states' political tasks: to maintain the public demand and of, and interest in, Israeli violations of efforts to intervene for Palestinian rights pressure for recognition and Palestinian rights and the quest for through the UN system. The report of the implementation of their right of return on international protection. BADIL UN Commission of Inquiry ("Falk- 5 Dugard-Hossain Commission") and the is cynically held responsible for the resolutions issued by the 57th session of escalation of violence in the Middle East. the UN Commission of Human Rights remained without effective follow-up. All A balance of the Palestinian efforts to obtain a UN Security Council achievements in 2001 suggests that resolution for the deployment of the current popular uprising international observers to the 1967 will fail to bring about the occupied territories were blocked by the desired fundamental United States. The Mitchell Committee changes of international undertook - with some delay - its fact- policy in the short term. finding mission in the 1967 occupied A long-term effort aimed Palestinian territories and, on 15 May, at affirming the presented its final report. From then on, legitimacy of Palestinian official international efforts for ending the resistance and rights is current crisis and re-launching political therefore the only negotiations between Israel and the PLO alternative option for the were guided by the so-called Mitchell- Palestinian people, its Tenet-Zinni process, which failed to leadership and address the root causes (military community occupation, displacement, denial of the organizations. In this right to self-determination) of the conflict context, BADIL between the Palestinian people and dedicated its efforts, in Zionism. Rights and claims of the the second half of the Palestinian people and its leadership were year, to urgent research further delegitimized in the wake of the required for the September 11 terror attacks in the United formulation of a rights- States and the new US "anti-terror" based Palestinian model policy. Since then, a passive and strongly for the solution of the biased international community has Palestinian refugee permitted the Sharon government to question, strategizing launch an all-out military attack against with expert partners and Palestinian infrastructure and the political the global
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