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The right of return is a principle in international law which guarantees everyone's right of voluntary return to, or re-entry to, their country of origin or of citizenship. The right of return is part of the broader human rights concept of freedom of movement and is also related to the legal concept of nationality . [ 1 ]
The Palestinian right of return [a] is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) [3] [4] and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), [3] have a right to return and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left ...
During the 1948 Palestine war, around 700,000 [fn 1] Palestinian Arabs or 85% of the total population fled or were expelled from the territory Israel conquered. [6] The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
The Law of Return (Hebrew: חוק השבות, ḥok ha-shvūt) is an Israeli law, passed on 5 July 1950, which gives Jews, people with one or more Jewish grandparent, and their spouses the right to relocate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship. [1]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Oslo Accords Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), American president Bill Clinton (middle), and Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat (right) at the White House in 1993 Type Bilateral negotiations Context Israeli–Palestinian peace process Signed 13 September 1993 (Declaration of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Not to be confused with March of Return (Israel). 2018–2019 Gaza border protests Part of Gaza–Israel conflict UN OCHA map of the protests, 31 May 2018 Date 30 March 2018 – 27 December 2019 (1 year, 8 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) Location Gaza Strip, near the Israeli border Caused by Donald ...
United Nations Security Council resolution 1239, adopted on 14 May 1999, after recalling resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998) and 1203 (1998), the Council called for access for the United Nations and other humanitarian personnel operating in Kosovo to other parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
The Hong Kong government continued to make a subvention to the English Schools Foundation, responsible for English-medium schools, which would not be phased out until 2016. [ 112 ] The former British military drill, marching and words of command in English remained in service among disciplinary forces until 2022 when Chinese foot drills were ...