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ABOUT AL-AWDA
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, non-partisan,
democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education
on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of
all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and the numerous United Nations
Resolutions upholding such rights.
Our aims and objectives are:
- To raise awareness in our communities concerning the human and legal rights of Palestinian refugees.
- To foster relationships with the media to help with the effort of educating the community of the human
and legal rights of Palestinian refugees.
- To educate elected representatives on the grave implications resulting from the continuing
violations of numerous human and legal rights of Palestinians, and how we can effect change.
- To develop and coordinate grassroots and student initiatives for action related to Palestinian refugee rights.
- To develop and strengthen links and coordinate efforts with human and civil rights organizations in
support of the Palestinian struggle for return, freedom and equality.
- To empower refugees with projects that nurture their autonomy and determination to exercise their legal rights, first and
foremost their natural right to return to their towns and villages, as supported by international law and United Nations'
resolutions.
- To provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees.
Click here for the Al_Awda website.
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