Karen AbuZayd

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MundoOriente Próximo, ,

Sixty years ago today the United Nations general assembly voted into existence a temporary body known as UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. UNRWA's task was to deal with the humanitarian consequences of the dispossession of some three-quarters of a million Palestine refugees forced by the 1948 Middle East war to abandon their homes and flee their ancestral lands. Just two decades later, the six-day war generated another spasm of violence and forced displacement, culminating in the occupation of Palestinian territory. Today, anguished exile remains the lot of Palestinians and Palestine refugees. The occupation of Palestinian land persists, there is no Palestinian state, and the human rights and fundamental freedoms to which Palestinians are entitled under international law do not exist.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo,

En la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, un documento revolucionario que acaba de cumplir 60 años, la comunidad internacional proclama que "la libertad, la justicia y la paz en el mundo tienen por base el reconocimiento de la dignidad intrínseca y de los derechos iguales e inalienables de todos los miembros de la familia humana". Asimismo, la Declaración establece como la más elevada aspiración "el advenimiento de un mundo en que los seres humanos (sean) liberados del temor y de la miseria".

Sesenta años después, la brecha entre retórica y realidad, sobre todo en el caso del pueblo palestino, debería provocar un examen de conciencia por parte de la comunidad internacional.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo,

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the steadily rising death toll in Gaza highlights the painful gap between its peaceful rhetoric and the desperate reality for Palestinian people.

The declaration was a pivotal statement in which the world community recognised the "inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world". True to its nobility of spirit, it declares "the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom from fear and want as the highest aspiration of the common people".…  Seguir leyendo »