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Lebanon: Stateless Palestinians

This report combines relevant and timely publicly available material with new information generated through interviews or written correspondence with five individuals with authoritative knowledge on the topic. Together these sources paint a troubling pict

Bibliography

All sources were consulted between 30 June 2022 and 30 November 2022.

 

  1. UNRWA, “Annual Operational Report 2021” 27 October 2022, p. 123

     

  2. OCHA,“Increasing Humanitarian Needs in Lebanon, April 2022”, 14 April 2022, footnote 132 p. 26

     

  3. UNRWA, ‘Where We Work: Lebanon’

     

  4. Source: Samih Eloubeidi & Tina Kempin/ The International Journal of Human Rights: “Restricting access to employment as a human rights violation: a case study of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon“, 11 April 2022, p. 3)

     

  5. Kamel Doraï, “From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria”, 2021, p. 47

     

  6. Kamel Doraï, “From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria”, The Syrian Conflict: Towards a New Exile for Palestinians, 2021, pp. 53-54

     

  7. Kamel Doraï, “From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria”, The Syrian Conflict: Towards a New Exile for Palestinians, 2021, p. 55

     

  8. UNRWA: “Protection brief: Palestine refugees living in Lebanon”, September 2020, p. 2

     

  9. Francesca P. Albanese and Lex Takkenberg/Oxford University Press, Palestinian Refugees in International Law”, May 2020, Chapter 3.3.3, Legal Status and Treatment, pp. 275-279

     

  10. Francesca P. Albanese and Lex Takkenberg/Oxford University Press, Palestinian Refugees in International Law”, May 2020, Chapter 3.3.2, p. 274)

     

  11. UNRWA: “Protection brief: Palestine refugees living in Lebanon”, September 2020

     

  12. The Collective for Research & Training on Development- Action, The Nationality Campaign, Ruwad alHoukouk Frontiers Rights et al, “Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review”, July 2020, p. 4

     

  13. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “Lebanon: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Lebanon - UPR 37th Session (2021)”, July 2020, p. 2

     

  14. Badil Resource Center and European Network on Statelessness: “Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees and Stateless Persons”, June 2022, p. 6

     

  15. Source: Colin Yeo, “Refugee Law”, 26 April 2022, chapter 6, p. 194

     

  16. UNRWA: “Letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees”, 22 September 2021

     

  17. UNRWA, “UNRWA Department of Health, Annual Report 2021”, 24 May 2022, p. 8

     

  18. BAMF – “Briefing Notes Group 62 – Information Centre for Asylum and Migration”, 24 January 2022, p. 8

     

  19. Aljazeera, “Refugees in Shatila camp pushed to the brink amid aid crisis”, 6 December 2021

     

  20. The Guardian “UN Palestine refugee aid agency ‘close to collapse’ after funding cuts”, 5 November, 2021

     

  21. Thomson Reuters Foundation “Palestinian refugees welcome U.S. decision to restart aid”, 8 April 2021

     

  22. BBC News, “Biden administration to restore $235m in US aid to Palestinians”, 7 April 2021)

     

  23. Raseef22, “A fourth generation of Palestinians living in Lebanon “on the fringes of the law”, 6 December 2021

  24. Susan Akram: “The Search for Protection for Stateless Refugees in the Middle East: Palestinians and Kurds in Lebanon and Jordan”. December 2018, p.11

     

  25. Kamel Doraï, “From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria”, 2021, p. 57

     

  26. US Department of State (USDOS) “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Lebanon”, Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, March 2022, p. 24

     

  27. Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion: “Stateless in a Global Pandemic”, June 2020, pp. 22-23

     

  28. The Collective for Research & Training on Development- Action, The Nationality Campaign, Ruwad alHoukouk Frontiers Rights et al, “Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review”, July 2020, p. 7

     

  29. Middle East Online (meo), “Citizenship sale exposes Lebanese political hypocrisy”, 10 June 2018

     

  30. Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Thematisch ambtsbericht Palestijnen in Libanon”, January 2021, p. 47

     

  31. Najdeh Association, Development Action Without Borders (Naba’a), Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO) et al, “UPR 2020: Palestinian Refugee Rights in Lebanon”, July 2020, p. 3

     

  32. Alexandre Casella/Le Temps, “Réfugiés palestiniens: copie à revoir?”, 8 July 2022

     

  33. Najdeh Association, Development Action Without Borders (Naba’a), Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO) et al, “UPR 2020: Palestinian Refugee Rights in Lebanon”, July 2020, p. 4

     

  34. UNICEF Lebanon, “The situation of children and young people in the Lebanese crisis”, March 2022, pp. 99

     

  35. UNDP/UN Lebanon “Rapid Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Lebanon”, 2 November 2020, p. 63

     

  36. Palestinian Refugees Portal: “Al-Hassan: The identity card of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon will be changed to a magnetic one”, February 22, 2022

     

  37. AlAraby - “Palestinians without IDs in Lebanon”, January 13, 2022

     

  38. Danish Immigration Service, “Palestinian Refugees Access to registration and UNRWA services, documents, and entry to Jordan” June 2020, p. 21

     

  39. UNDP, “Nothing and Everything to Lose: Results from a Qualitative Whatsapp survey of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon”, August 2020, p. 27

     

  40. Daraj “Republic of Racism: The Denial of a Palestinian his Return to Lebanon”, 4 May 2020

     

  41. UN News, “News in Brief 24 May 2022”, 24 May 2022

     

  42. Shadi Saleh, Sarah Ibrahim, Jasmin Lilian Diab, Mona Osman, “Integrating refugees into national health systems amid political and economic constraints in the EMR: Approaches from Lebanon and Jordan”, 12 March 2022, Volume 12, Journal of Global Health

     

  43. Human Rights Watch, “Lebanon: Refugees, Migrants Left Behind in Vaccine RolloutEnsure Greater Information Access”, 6 April 2021

     

  44. WFP “Assessing the Impact of the Economic and COVID-19 Crises in Lebanon”, June 2020, p. 17

     

  45. OCHA, “Increasing Humanitarian Needs in Lebanon, April 2022”, 14 April 2022, p. 27

     

  46. MAP, “MAP highlights plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty”, 12 October 2021

     

  47. The New Humanitarian, “How COVID-19 is limiting healthcare access for refugees in Lebanon”, 21 April 2020

  48. UNHCR, “The impact of covid-19 on stateless populations”, June 2021, p. 5

     

  49. Refugee Net: “A warning sit-in by the Palestinian Teachers Union in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut”, July 5, 2022

     

  50. Middle East Monitor: “Palestinian advocacy group highlights condition of refugee children in Lebanon”, 15 March 2022

     

  51. Al Jazeera, “UNRWA in ‘race against time’ for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon”, 19 January 2022

     

  52. OHCHR, “Visit to Lebanon - Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights”, Olivier De Schutter, 11 April 2022, p.9

     

  53. Samih Eloubeidi & Tina Kempin Reuter/ The International Journal of Human Rights, “Restricting access to employment as a human rights violation: a case study of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon”, 11 April 2022, pp. 3-4

     

  54. Freedom House, “Freedom in the World 2021”, March 2022

     

  55. UN Human Rights Council, “Universal Periodic Review Third Cycle - Lebanon - UN Contributions: UNCT Lebanon, 2020”

     

  56. L’Orient-Le Jour, “Les Palestiniens peuvent désormais exercer des professions nécessitant l’adhésion à un syndicat”, 8 December 2021

     

  57. The National, “Palestinian refugees in Lebanon granted limited access to job market”, 8 December 2021

     

  58. The Jerusalem Post “Palestinian professionals banned from work in Lebanon for second time”, 13 February 2022

     

  59. UN Women, “European Union Sector Specific Gender Analysis: An in-depth sectoral examination of feminist and women’s rights issues in Lebanon” , July 2021, pp. 30-31

     

  60. UN Inter-Agency Cooperation, Lebanon, “In Focus: Rise of evictions due to increased economic vulnerability”, July 2020, p. 1

     

  61. Quds Net News Agency: “A Palestinian doesn’t Own in Lebanon, Even if In Possession of Lebanese Nationality”, 24 June 2020

     

  62. Le Monde, “Avec des réfugiés palestiniens revenus au Liban après l’enfer en Biélorussie : « On a les mêmes problèmes qu’avant, des dettes en plus »”, 26 November 2021

     

  63. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, “Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Lebanon”, 01 March 2022, p. 13

     

  64. “Situation of Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon.” K4D Helpdesk Report. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. Emilie Combaz, 2018 p. 2

     

  65. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), “Disability”

     

  66. Yalla Care Coalition, “Study on the needs of the LGBTIQA+ community in Beirut, 2021”, December 2021, p. 12

     

  67. Oxfam, “Queer Community in Crisis: Trauma, Inequality & Vulnerability”, July 2021, p. 15