World Chronicle 880: Peter Hansen, UNRWA

Michael Littlejohns interviews Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), for World Chronicle program 880.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:03
• Production Date: 6 November 2002
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: IAN WILLIAMS; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS; PETER HANSEN; SANAA YOUSSEF
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS; UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA
• Subject Topical: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME; FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; PALESTINE; PALESTINE QUESTION; PALESTINE REFUGEES; PALESTINIAN PEOPLE; PALESTINIAN REFUGEES; RELIEF PERSONNEL; SOCIAL SERVICES; VIOLENCE
• Geographic Subject: GAZA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; WEST BANK
• MAMS Id: 2116196
• Parent Id: 827741

Description

Palestine Refugees: Present and Future Challenges

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been in charge of providing health, education, relief and social services to Palestinians since 1949. Since then, the number of refugees served by the agency has grown from 800,000 to more than four million. Are UNRWA’s serviced keeping up with this demographic explosion? How have the violence and destruction since the breakdown of the Oslo Peace process affected the agency’s operations and finances? What are the long-term consequences of decreasing opportunities for education, restrictions of movement and – above all – worsening unemployment and poverty among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip? In this edition of World Chronicle, these issues are explored with the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Peter Hansen.

• Scripts: File; 880.pdf (38.97 KB)