UN Websites Websites on the Middle East News Focus • •
UN News Focus: Middle East http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=70&Body=palestin&Body1= UN News Focus: Lebanon http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=110&Body=Lebanon&Body1=
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UNDOF - United Nations Disengagement Observer Force http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/undof/ UNIFIL - United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/ UNTSO - United Nations Truce Supervision Organization http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/untso/ Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process http://www.unsco.org/about.asp Issues on the UN Agenda: Question of Palestine http://www.un.org/issues/m-qpales.html Question of Palestine http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/qpal/index.html UNISPAL - UN Information System on the Question of Palestine http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF?OpenDatabase
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Middle East http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/MenaRegion/Pages/MenaRegionIndex.aspx Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/MENARegion/Pages/PSIndex.aspx
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Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - Occupied Palestinian Territory http://www.ochaopt.org/ OCHA – Complex Emergency: Lebanon http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=SODA-6RT2S7&rc=3 OCHA – Complex Emergency: Occupied Palestinian Territory http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc104?OpenForm&rc=3&cc=pse United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People http://pappsrv.papp.undp.org/ UNDP's Early Recovery Efforts in Lebanon http://www.undp.org/lebanon/ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Lebanon crisis http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/lebanon-crisis United Nations Children’s Fund – Middle East and North Africa http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/northafrica.html United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) http://www.un.org/unrwa World Health Organization (WHO): Lebanon humanitarian crisis http://www.who.int/hac/crises/international/middle_east/en/index.html, http://www.emro.who.int/eha/lebanon.htm World Health Organization (WHO): Occupied Palestinian Territories http://www.emro.who.int/eha/opt.htm
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – The crisis in Lebanon http://www.unep.org/lebanon/ UNEP Post-Conflict Branch Lebanon: http://postconflict.unep.ch/index.php?prog=lebanon Occupied Palestinian Territories: http://postconflict.unep.ch/index.php?prog=palestine Environmental Assessment of the Areas Disengaged by Israel in the Gaza Strip: http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/UNEP_Gaza_web.pdf
International Law •
International Court of Justice - Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=4&code=mwp&case=131&k=5a
UNRIC Library – January 2008 http://www.unric.org/html/english/library/backgrounders/middleeast_eng.pdf