UNRWA | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA


00:02:22 1 History and mandate
00:04:55 2 Organisation
00:05:55 3 Advisory Commission
00:06:48 3.1 Members of the Advisory Commission
00:08:23 4 Funding
00:10:58 5 Operations
00:11:22 5.1 Education programme
00:13:40 5.2 Relief and social services programme
00:15:04 5.3 Health program
00:18:41 5.4 UNRWA Microfinance Department
00:20:10 5.5 Emergency operations
00:21:37 5.6 Infrastructure and camp/settlement improvement
00:22:22 6 Praise
00:24:19 6.1 MOPAN assessment
00:25:52 7 Criticism and controversies
00:27:12 7.1 Mandate-related controversies
00:27:22 7.2 The mandate itself – including the definition of refugees
00:28:00 7.3 Creating dependency rather than resettling refugees
00:33:36 7.4 Execution-related controversies
00:33:46 7.4.1 Protection of Palestinian refugees
00:35:43 7.4.2 Textbook controversy
00:47:50 7.5 Relationship with Hamas
00:52:04 7.6 Schools
00:54:17 7.6.1 Camps and sports
00:57:49 7.6.2 UNRWA facilities being abused by Hamas militants
01:00:49 7.6.3 Al-Fakhura violence
01:03:45 7.6.4 Social media and incitement
01:04:47 8 Investigations and calls for accountability and/or reform
01:13:17 9 Relations with Israel
01:20:23 10 See also
01:21:05 11 Bibliography



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SUMMARY
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Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency which supports more than 5 million registered Palestinian refugees, and their patrilineal descendants, who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war as well as those who fled or were expelled during and following the 1967 Six Day war. Originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief, today UNRWA provides education, health care, and social services to the population it supports. Aid is provided in five areas of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; aid for Palestinian refugees outside these five areas is provided by UNHCR.It also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the State of Israel following the 1948 conflict until the Israeli government took over responsibility for Jewish refugees in 1952.
In the absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem, the UN General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA's mandate, most recently extending it until 30 June 2020. Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and the U.S. broker for peace talks, has advocated a "sincere effort to disrupt" UNRWA as part of the Trump administration's proposals for the Middle East, since according to Kushner it "perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace".UNRWA is the only UN agency dedicated to helping refugees from a specific region or conflict and is separate from UNHCR. Formed in 1950, UNHCR is the main UN refugee agency, which is responsible for aiding other refugees all over the world. Unlike UNRWA, UNHCR has a specific mandate to aid its refugees to eliminate their refugee status by local integration in current country, resettlement in a third country or repatriation when possible. UNRWA allows refugee status to be inherited by descendants of male refugee, including legally adopted children.