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implementing durable solutions. UNRWA, UNHCR, the UNCCP, UN Committee
on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and other relevant
bodies should immediately clarify their respective mandates in order to coordinate
effective temporary protection for all Palestinian refugees;
Addressing the regular and chronic shortfall in the core budget of UNRWA;
a scenario which results from the non-mandatory status of contributions to the
agency’s general budget from member states. This issue must be treated as a top
priority for both the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Secretary-General.
Donor states must increase the quantity and stability of financial contributions
both to UNRWA emergency appeals and to the General Fund, factoring in the
annual growth of the refugee population and their needs. Donor states must take
all meaningful and practical measures to bring an end to conditional funding and
delegitimization tactics of third states, particularly the US and those of the EU, that
target UNRWA.
Establishing a comprehensive registration system for Palestinian refugees and
IDPs. The UN should coordinate a comprehensive registration system for ensuring
protection, crafting durable solutions and fulfilling reparations. Such a system should
include all categories of Palestinian refugees and IDPs, and recognize instances of
multiple displacement;
Incorporating Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention into the national
legislation of those states who are signatories to the Convention, and ensuring
correct interpretation and application of Article 1D to Palestinian refugee asylum
cases in-line with contemporary scholarly opinion on the subject;
Utilizing the League of Arab States’ regional mechanisms for refugee protection.
The LAS should implement existing regional instruments (1965 Protocol on the
Treatment of Palestinians, 1992 Cairo Declaration) and strengthen their monitoring
mechanisms;
Improving the UN, intergovernmental and international organizations’ response
mechanisms to Israeli policies of displacement and transfer throughout all of
Mandatory Palestine by focusing efforts not only on short-term emergency and
humanitarian aid, but also on preventing forced displacement though the filling of
protection gaps concerning victims medium and long-term needs.
3. Facilitate and ensure the participation and engagement of the
Palestinian people, particularly refugees and IDPs, in crafting
solutions, and bring an end to all actions that impede the political
participation of the Palestinian people:
Bringing an end to all actions that obstruct the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation
from the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime or impede on the political participation of the
Palestinian people, especially Palestinian refugee youth, requires:
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States, UN bodies and agencies and international civil society organizations to take