accorded to all other refugees and has been effectively defunct since the early 1950s.10 The inactivity of UNCCP has forced UNRWA to incorporate some protection activities within its mandate in order “to safeguard and advance the rights of Palestine refugees under international law.”11 UNRWA first engaged in ‘passive’ protection with the promulgation of UN Resolution 37/120 of 1982. Its limited ‘protection framework’ has since developed in response to a lack of alternative mechanisms for the protection of Palestinian refugee rights.12 However, despite some progress in this area, UNRWA is not explicitly mandated to seek the just and durable rights-based solution to which Palestinian refugees are entitled. Moreover, in light of the growing refugee population and increasing strain on services, the Agency lacks the funds to even fulfil its mandated objectives: to provide essential services and implement key programs for Palestinian refugees. For as long as UNRWA continues to be financed almost entirely by voluntary contributions, outpaced by growing demands, the essential needs and fundamental rights of Palestinian refugees will remain unrealized.13 10 BADIL, “The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Protection, and a Durable Solution for Palestinian Refugees,” June 2000, available at: https://www.badil.org/phocadownload/Badil_docs/bulletins-and-briefs/Brief-No.5.pdf 11 UNRWA, “Protecting Palestine Refugees,” 2015, 4, available at: https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/content/resources/resource_26476_23321_1456388534.pdf 12 Harish Parvathaneni, “UNRWA’s Role in Protecting Palestine Refugees,” BADIL Working Paper No. 9, December 2004, 16-17, available at: http://www.badil.org/phocadownloadpap/Badil_docs/Working_Papers/WP-E-09.pdf 13 Harish Parvathaneni, “UNRWA’s Role in Protecting Palestine Refugees”; Asem Khalil, “The ‘Protection Gap’ and the Palestinian Refugees of the Gaza Strip,” IALIIS-BZU Working Paper Series No. 2011/11, 133, 21 February 2011, available at: https://fada.birzeit.edu/bitstream/20.500.11889/4477/1/Asem%20Khalil%20-%20protection%20gap.pdf 8