Hamas' "Sinking Business"
In the past two years, over 400,000 illegal individuals from from the Middle-East and North Africa to Europe by sea due to the oppressive conditions in these areas. One Gazan in reference to Hamas stated that "It's better to die at sea than to die of despair and frustration in Gaza."
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NGOs in Human Rights Monitoring
This report examines the different actors involved in the UN human rights monitoring system, specifically treaty bodies and civil society actors. It also surveys in detail the role of NGOs as civil society actors reporting to UN bodies and then highlights human rights issues identified during the course an internship at the Jerusalem Institute of Justice.
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Dealing with Refugees
A comparison of refugees after World War II in Europe and Palestine
This report examines refugee populations following World War II in Europe and Palestine, and common characteristics with the current Syrian refugee crises. After the conclusion of World War II in Europe as former residents resettled or integrated, the number of European refugees and camps declined. At the same time, the number of Palestinian refugees continued to grow as they were not naturalized in their host countries. Instead they were inheriting refugee status after being registered as such by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a UN institution exclusively responsible for the Palestinians.
The following pages compares the circumstances and call for right of return between those expelled from Germany after World War II and Palestinian refugees. The aim of this paper is to show that there are alternative stop UNRWA's current policies and retaining refugee status for an entire population group is not the optimal way to solve the problem.
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A Human Rights Approach to the Perpetuated Palestinian Refugee Crisis
5-6 million Palestinians who have inherited the status of ‘refugee’ living today throughout the Middle East are, for the most part, condemned to living lives of abject poverty. The policies of the Arab nations discriminate against Palestinian refugees, unjustly trapping them in an economic and social underclass in which they do not enjoy equal access to civil rights, economic and social privileges. As long as Palestinian refugees are treated as pawns in the Middle East conflict, with their interests held hostage to distant promises of a permanent peace agreement, they will continue to pay the highest price.
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Radical Islam's Ethnic Cleansing: 2014
Through displacement, persecution and murder, radical Islam has and is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the middle East. Specifically focusing on ISIS, this fact sheet exposes the horrific actions of radical Islam among ethnic groups in 2014.