United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Essays

  • The Shaping of the Jordanian Health Care System

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    efforts to provide quality health care to all people in their country. They have made great progress in managing health services and ensuring medical needs are met. The influx of refugees from neighboring countries in political turmoil has challenged their health care system at every level. Jordan has worked with many agencies to find solutions to the capacity issues, financial burdens, and epidemiological implications. Jordan’s Healthcare System The government of Jordan has committed to providing quality

  • Escape From Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World

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    in the Developing World, attempt to provide a more realistic theoretical framework of refugee trends in order to prescribe ways in which the developed world can help alleviate the problem. The book attempts to clarify why there have been so many refugees emerging recently from the developing world, why they leave in varying volumes, where they end up, and why they go back or not. The findings indicate that patterns of refugee flows and conflict are affected by various economic and political factors

  • Gaza Diary

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    experiences during his weeklong stay in what is know as the Gaza Strip. Hedges’s travels, with illustrator Joe Sacco, start in Jerusalem and proceeds down south through the Gaza strip to a Palestine camp refuge called Khan Younis, where they stay for the majority of the trip. They venture over to Mawasi, also a Palestine village, located on the coast. In both these locations he describes the constant unrest and turmoil that residents face everyday and every night. Hedges’s first entry has him in Beit Agron