Palestinian women stage sit-in in Beirut to protest UNRWA’s cut down of its services

Tens of Palestinian women demonstrated last Friday in front of the UNRWA headquarters in the capital Beirut in denunciation of the inequitable policies of the Organization and the shrinking of its services to refugees. During the protest, Fadia Abdel Majid, Zahrat al Rabii and Khaledat Hussein, uttered their opposition to the policies of the UN agency. They called on UNRWA to immediately change its policy and work on improving the services it provides to the Palestinian refugees in the country. At the end of the sit-in, a women delegation handed a list of demands to the UNRWA director general in Beirut, Mathias Chemaly. As Safir April 9, 2016