[news] CKUT Radio: Palestinian Refugees - Fighting for Dignity in Lebanon

[Stefan Christoff]

CKUT Radio: Palestinian Refugees - Fighting for Dignity in Lebanon

Listen to an interview with Raida Hatoum a Lebanese activist who works
with Najdeh, a women's NGO network throughout the Palestinian refugee
camps of Lebanon. Najdeh was established by a group of Palestinian refugee
women near the beginning of the Lebanese civil-war. Currently Najdeh
organizes various social programs throughout many of the Palestinian
refugee camps, focusing on the immediate needs of women and children
within the camps.

The interview focuses on the work of Najdeh within the current context of
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. Specifically the interview focuses
on the lack of basic rights for refugees and the various Lebanese &
Palestinian social movements engaged in struggles to fight for the rights
of Palestinians. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are forbidden from owning
property, working in over 78 professions, receiving proper health care,
and moving and traveling freely. They do not hold Lebanese citizenship
which gives them little influence over the political decision of the
country in which the majority of Palestinian refugees have lived for over
50 years. Essentially the majority of Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon
throughout the poverty stricken, war destroyed camps as non-citizens with
little basic rights.

To listen to the interview with Raida Hatoum visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=8335

For more information on Najdeh visit:
http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/360/362/najdeh/

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