Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter (No. 55 January to May 1968) Magazine (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)

UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)

Verlag: UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1968

Beschreibung

A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of fleeing refugees entitled "Military action along the Jordan Valley prompted the flight of 75,000 refugees and displaced persons to the hills around Amman"; Governments Respond to Secretary-General's New Appeal for Refugee Aid ("In March 1968, two governments [Canada and Sweden] which have for many years been among the most generous contributors to UNRWA, announced that they would provide further support, following the new emergency refugee situation caused by military incidents along the Jordan river"); Help From Far-Off Germany; Hassan Qualifies as an Engineer (profile of Hassan Dassouqi); NEED [Near East Emergency Donations] Aid for Camps in Syria; Pestalozzi [Sussex, England] Spells Opportunity; The First Ten Thousand Graduates from UNRWA Centres; Refugee Youth Volunteers Help UNRWA in Emergency Camps in Jordan; "Aftermath" ("UNRWA has just completed a 46-minute filmed report on the Arab refugee problem, as seen from East Jordan, covering the period June 1967 to February 1968" - entitled "Aftermath"). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008205

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA ...

Verlag: UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon

Erscheinungsdatum: 1968

Einband: Magazine

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition