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BADIL: Resource Center – Bethlehem, West Bank
Project
Title:
Legal Project for the Protection of
Palestinian Refugee
Rights
BADIL –
an independent Palestinian non-governmental
organization – is dedicated to
promoting and defending Palestinians through
such ideals as equality, social
and political justice, and human rights “as
enshrined in international law and
UN resolutions.”
Thus,
BADIL plays an integral role in the fight
against “military occupation, racism,
colonialism and Apartheid” and works for a
“durable solution of the historic
conflict between the Palestinian-Arab people
and
Based on
the foundation of the increasing success in
lobbying for international legal
and human rights in international fora and the
lack of such refugee rights
legal expertise in the
The Legal
Project seeks to “advance the role of
international refugee law and protection
mechanism in the specific Palestinian context,
and increase the efficiency of
BADIL’s advocacy efforts undertaken in the
framework of previously existing
BADIL projects.”
Project
achievements in 2001 included a request to the
UN Economic and Social Council
by the UN Committee for Social, Economic and
Cultural Rights for “effective intervention
for the protection of Palestinian SEC [Social,
Economic, and Cultural] rights
in the 1967 occupied
territories.”
BADIL
launched “an informal, systematic process of
consultation about more effective
refugee protection” with the relevant
agencies such as UNRWA and UNHCR. Lastly, BADIL has
produced a body of
substantive and legal analysis and
recommendations in support of “Palestinian
refugees’
right of return and property
restitution.”