{"id":280250,"date":"2024-01-30T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=280250"},"modified":"2024-01-30T18:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:27:50","slug":"unrwa-united-nations-agency-for-palestinian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unrwa-united-nations-agency-for-palestinian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA: United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>-This post is based on the article “What is UNRWA, and why have Western countries paused its funding amid Gaza war?<\/strong>” published in “The Indian Express<\/strong>” on 30th January 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

The United States and eight other Western nations, which contributed over half of UNRWA’s 2022 budget, withdrew their funding. This action followed accusations from Israel regarding the involvement of some agency personnel in the October 7 attack.<\/p>\n

What is UNRWA?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full form\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nUNRWA- (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) for Palestine Refugees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
About<\/strong><\/td>\nIt is a specialized agency established by the United Nations General Assembly<\/span> in 1949.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mandate<\/strong><\/td>\nTo provide assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees<\/span> who were displaced following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as their descendants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operational domain<\/strong><\/td>\nIt operates in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Funding<\/strong><\/td>\n1. UNRWA receives generous support from UN Member States such as US, regional governments, and the European Union.
\n2. These sources represent close to 89.2 percent of financial contributions<\/span> to the Agency.
\n3. It also gets a limited subsidy from the UN<\/span>, which is used only for administrative costs.<\/span>
\n4. Top donors of 2022-<\/strong> USA, Germany, EU, Sweden, Norway, Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Turkey.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Key Programmes<\/strong><\/td>\nIt runs education, health, relief and social services, microfinance and emergency assistance programmes inside and outside refugee camps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

UPSC Syllabus- International Organisations<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source-This post is based on the article “What is UNRWA, and why have Western countries paused its funding amid Gaza war?” published in “The Indian Express” on 30th January 2024. Why in the News? The United States and eight other Western nations, which contributed over half of UNRWA’s 2022 budget, withdrew their funding. This action… Continue reading UNRWA: United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-280250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}