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Chapter Five: Politics and the Question of Palestinian Refugees and IDPs
5.1 Refugees/IDPs and Peace Agreements 165
5.2 Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiations on the Palestinian Refugee Question 165
5.2.1 Negotiations Concerning the 1948 Palestinian Refugees 166
5.2.2 Negotiations Concerning the 1967 Refugees 170
5.3 Political Actors, Peace, and the Question of Palestinian Refugees 171
5.3.1 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 171
5.3.2 Israel 171
5.3.3 The Quartet 172
5.3.4 The United States 173
5.3.5 The United Nations 174
5.3.6 The European Union 174
5.3.7 The League of Arab States 175
5.3.8 The Organization of Islamic Conference 175
5.3.9 The African Union and the Non-Aligned Movement 175
5.4 Civil Society Initiatives for Refugee and IDP Rights 175
5.4.1 Participation by Palestinian refugees and IDPs 175
5.4.2 Civil Society Initiatives 177
5.4.3 International Human Rights Organizations 179
Endnotes 180
List of Tables
Table 1.1: Estimated Area of Palestinian Land Expropriated/Confiscated, by Period of
Expropriation/Confiscation 3
Table 1.2: Refugee Camps Destroyed in Lebanon 24
Table 2.1: Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Palestinians (IDPs) 44
Table 2.2: Number of Convention Refugees, People of Concern to the UNHCR, and Internally
Displaced Persons Worldwide, 2006 46
Table 2.3: Distribution of 1948 Registered Refugees, by District of Origin and by Field 50
Table 2.4: Registered Refugees in Official Camps 51
Table 2.5: Population of Palestinian Refugees in Camps (official and unofficial), 31 March 2007 52
Table 2.6: Percentage of Refugee Population in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 56
Table 2.7: Distribution of Palestinian Refugees Outside Camps in Lebanon 57
Table 2.8: Infant and Child Mortality Rates for Palestinian Refugees (per 1,000 births) 59
Table 2.9: Refugee and IDPs Total Labour Force Participation 60
Table 2.10: Unemployment Rates in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (2003) (shown as %) 61
Table 2.11: Enrolment Levels (%) in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and West Bank & Gaza Strip 64
Table 2.12: Illiteracy (%) in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria 66
Table 2.13: Selected Health Indicators for Women 67
Table 2.14: Selected Child Health Indicators 68
Table 2.15: Percentage of Children (ages 5-14) Chronically Ill or Disabled 69
Table 3.1: Main sources of Humanitarian/Emergency Assistance Received, as Reported by Palestinian
Households in the OPT, 2006 83
Table 3.2: UNRWA School Population, Number of Schools, Teachers, Training Places 87
Table 3.3: Percentage of Refugee Students in UNRWA, Government and Private Schools, 2003 88
Table 3.4: Access to Government Education by Palestinian Refugees 89
Table 3.5: Access to Government Health-care Systems for Secondary and Tertiary Care Services 90
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