UNRWA

• Tour Helps Ignatieff, Tories Also to Face Students

Following his trip, a number of Middle Eastern news outlets, and even B'Nai Brith Canada, reported [Vic Toews] used the journey to announce Canada was yanking its funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The UNRWA runs 59 Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Toews was quoted in several newspapers, including the Jerusalem Post, as saying Canada's aid for Palestine is being "redirected in accordance with Canadian values." Instead of funding the camps, Canada is going to pay for projects to train Palestinian justice officials like judges, police and prosecutors and build courthouses, something Canada began doing in 2007. The news was well-received by B'Nai Brith Canada, but when the stories were checked with Toew...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• January 25, 2010

• Abu-Fahra v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2003 FC 860 (2003)

... the RPD makes no mention whatsoever of the UNRWA certificates that were before it. It was not in di...

• Federal Court

• Canada's credibility as an actor in the Middle East peace process: the refugee working group, 1992-2000.

... agency and the refugee problem with the UNRWA commissioner general. . GAVEL'S MISSIONS . The pro...

• International Journal
• Vol. 66 Nbr. 3, June 2011

• Mohammed v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2009 FC 768 (2009)

... for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). [4] The Applicant attended the school of Faculty...

• Federal Court

• Have Palestinian Children Forfeited Their Rights?

[The Palestinian children] are taught to hate, fight, kill and destroy" (Naveh, 2003). The Palestinian child is presented simply as a product of an alien process. Though both Palestinian and Israeli children are victims of the conflict, Israeli Jewish children are seen as proper innocent victims of terrorism in contrast to Palestinian children who are often perceived as dangerous props of irresponsible parents, a conniving Palestinian Authority and desperate militant groups. A rightwing think tank queries "How did these children come to be exposed to danger? Why are Palestinian children allowed to confront a military force? Why are they present among rioters, snipers, and terrorists? And how is the press always in the right place to photograph such acts of false heroism" (Prism Group, ...

... for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) offers education, health, relief and social servi...

• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, April 2004

• Abu-Farha c. Canada (Ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration), 2003 CF 860 (2003)

...�fugiés de Palestine dans le Proche-Orient (UNRWA). Leurs enregistrements sont « sous » le même n...

• Cour Fédérale

• Canada (Ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration) c. El Chayeb, 2005 CF 334 (2005)

...The UNRWA explained that it operates 18 full-sclare health c...

• Cour Fédérale

• Kukhon v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2003 FCT 69 (2003)

... United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA")?. b) Did the CRDD err in law in making negative ...

• Federal Court

• Canada' s responsibility for Palestine: ... the Middle East has not occupied centre stage in Canadian foreign policy since the Suez crisis ...

... has led in the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps care for Middle Eastern refugees. Fo...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 56 Nbr. 1, September 1998

• Kukhon c. Canada (Ministre de la citoyenneté et de l'immigration), 2003 CFPI 69 (2003)

... de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies (UNRWA) ou d'y faire référence?. b) La section du statu...

• Cour Fédérale