BADIL Resources
BADIL Information Packet (3rd Edition) - Includes Right of
Return, Campaign for the Defense of Palestinian Refugee Rights
Brochure, Palestinian Refugees in Exile Country Profiles, and BADIL
Information & Discussion Briefs. (English & Arabic)
The Packet is also available on the BADIL website.
Follow-Up Information Submitted to the Committee for Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, Regarding the Committee's 1998
"Concluding Observations", Regarding Israel's Serious Breaches of
its Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, for the 13 November 2000 Convening of
the Committee, With Special Documentary Annex (Prepared by
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta), Quantifying Land Confiscation inside the
Green Line.(English and Arabic), 65 pages
Rights, 25th Session, 23 April 2001, General Item: Follow-
Up Procedure (Israel). (English and Arabic), 28 pages
The 1948 Palestinian Refugees and the Individual Right of
Return: An International Law Analysis, January 2001.
Prepared by Gail J. Boling, Coordinator of the BADIL Legal Unit.
(English and Arabic), 50 pages
Occasional Bulletin No. 6 - Physical Protection for Refugee
Populated Areas. (English and Arabic), 4 pages
Occasional Bulletin No. 7 - The World Conference Against
Racism: "United to Combat Racism: Equality, Justice and
Dignity" - Overview and Analysis. (English and Arabic), 4 pages
Occasional Bulletin No. 8 - A Climate of Vulnerability -
International Protection, Palestinian Refugees, and the al-Aqsa
Intifada One Year Later. (English and Arabic), 4 pages
For a complete list of BADIL Occasional Bulletins, see the BADIL website
Palestinian Refugees and the al-Aqsa Intifada: The Legal
Obligation to Provide International Protection and to Work
for a Durable Solution. Submitted to the Special Committee to
Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,
July 2001
The First Regional Coordinating Meeting between
Organizations working in the field of the Defense of
Palestinian Refugee Rights, Cyprus (October 2000). (Arabic),
80 pages
Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods of the City and
their Fate in the War (BADIL/IJS, 1999). The book is available
in English with Arabic translation of the introduction, 304 pages.
ISBN 0-88728-274-1. 2nd Revised edition forthcoming. Arabic
edition forthcoming.
BADIL Website
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To order BADIL publications, please contact BADIL:
Tel/Fax. 274-7346 or email: [email protected]
New Books
From Refugees to Citizens at Home Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
A new book detailing a plan for the return of the refugees to their
homes was revealed in late September in Westminster Hall before
an audience of MPs, diplomats, journalists and NGOs interested in
the Middle East. According to the plan prepared by Dr. Salman Abu
Sitta, 90% of the depopulated Palestinian villages could be
repopulated by its people without the slightest effect on Israeli
Jews. Of the remaining 10%, 7% can return with some adjustment and
3% have some difficulty in returning.
It was shown that all the refugees in Gaza, Syria and
Lebanon,
who experience the greatest hardship, are equal in number to
the Russian immigrants, more than half are not Jews, who were
admitted to Israel in the nineties. Their return will hardly be
felt in
Tel Aviv. The plan is divided into 7 phases which would take
8-10
years to implement. The labour for construction of demolished
homes and technical skills required are available among the
refugees. In a detailed series of maps, the past, present and
future situation of 530 towns and villages from which Israel
expelled the refugees in 1948, is shown with great clarity,
including the urban plan of the 14 Palestinian cities now turned
into Israel.
The plan proposes a procedure to implement return: forming a
Palestinian Land Commission to receive the transfer documents
of Palestinian land from the Israel Land Administration, the
Security Council to reaffirm Resolution 194 calling for the
return
of the refugees, that the Conciliation Commission on Palestine
should be reactivated, UNRWA to undertake the repatriation
operations. Having shown there is no legal, demographic,
geographic, economic, or logistical reason to deny the return
of
the refugees, Abu Sitta argues that the only remaining obstacle
is Israel's racist polices which are contained in 24 laws
condemned by UN agencies. The book launch was organized
by the London office of the Arab League, the Council for the
Advancement of Arab British Understanding and the Palestinian
Return Centre.
The book can be ordered from the Palestinian Return Centre,
100 A Crown House, North Circular Road, London, NW10 7PN,
United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]