UPMRC - The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees


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	Al-Haq Al-Haq, West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists-Geneva, is a Palestinian human rights and legal research organization located in the West Bank city of Ramallah. It was established in 1979 with the goal of protecting and promoting Palestinian human rights and respect for the rule of law. Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, a registered Palestinian NGO located in Gaza City, has been working in the field of deaf education and allied services since 1992. Literally thousands of deaf children and adults and their families are served annually at Atfaluna through deaf education, audiology, speech therapy, income generating programs for the deaf, vocational training, parents' teachers' and community training and awareness programs, and a host of other services and programs. Birzeit University's Department of Public and Community Health The Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University was established informally in 1978. In response to the Palestinian community's urgent need for independent and informed health research and planning, it became a formal university department in 1982. In 1998, the University Board of Trustees approved a motion to upgrade the Department to an Institute in response to our evolving role that suits current academic and developmental needs. Gaza Community Mental Health Program Gaza Community Mental Health Program is a non-profit Palestinian non-governmental organization established in 1990 to provide mental health support to a community direly in need of such services. Founded amidst the tumultuous "Intifada" against the Israeli occupation, the Programme aims to help victims, their families, and their communities cope with the aftermath of torture and systematic violence, focusing on the most vulnerable sectors of Gazan society, particularly women, children, and former prisoners. Health Development Information and Policy Institute At this crucial junction in time, as Palestinians struggle to build the foundations of a free country, it is absolutely essential that a development vision and proper policies be adopted. To help achieve this, the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) uses research, advocacy, capacity building and dialogue to promote community needs, proper development policies, and good governance. Only then can Palestine live up to its potential as a democratic civil society. The International People's Health Council IPHC is a worldwide coalition of people’s health initiatives and socially progressive groups and movements committed to working for the health and rights of disadvantaged people - and ultimately of all people. IPHC is a founding member of the People’s Health Movement and serves on the International Steering Committee of PHM. The vision of the IPHC is to advance toward Health for All—viewing health in the broad sense of physical, mental, social, economic, and environmental well-being. LAW LAW is a Palestinian Human Rights organisation based in Jerusalem. LAW was founded in 1990 by a group of Palestinian lawyers to promote human rights and further the principles of the rule of law, and to defend Palestinian rights in accordance with international human rights law and United Nations declarations. Ministry of Health (Palestinian National Authority) We are a governmental institution responsible to the Palestinian National Authority; and responsible for the provision of medical and health services to the Palestinian people in Palestinian. Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) was founded in 1983 by a group of Palestinian agronomists responding voluntarily to the deterioration in agricultural extension programs in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank as a result of the Israeli occupation by offering expert advice to marginalized, poor farmers in the area. This voluntary effort gained momentum and recognition over a short period of time, and, transformed into a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in rural areas in Palestine. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) main function is to provide truthful and impartial official statistics on demographic, social, economic and environmental states and trend to serve the Palestinian citizenry, and to serve the instrumental needs of businesses and their organizations for statistical information on states and trends. The Palestinian Counseling Center Since its establishment in 1983 and through its team of multi-disciplinary counselors and experts, the PCC has served as a catalyst in promoting community-based development in addition to introducing the concept of mental health in Palestine. The main beneficiaries of the PCC's work have been the geographically, socially and economically marginalized groups, namely children and youth. However, the PCC implements the holistic approach in all its programs, where parents and school administrations as well as community members as a whole are beneficiaries. Palestinian Hydrology Group The Palestinian Hydrology Group is a non-profit, non-governmental organization. We are striving, in cooperation with local communities to protect and develop water and environmental resources and to ensure just and equal provision of water and sanitation services to rural and marginal communities in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian Red Crescent Society The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is a national humanitarian society that provides a wide range of health, social and other humanitarian services for the Palestinian People throughout the Middle East. PRCS was established on 26 December 1968. In 1969 the Palestinian National Council (PNC) mandated the Society the responsibility for health and social services for Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine. To-date, PRCS continues its actives in Palestine (along side the Ministry of Health and other NGOs), Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and other locations. The Palestine Monitor The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) set up this website, a gateway to civil society, as part of the newly created information clearinghouse of the same name. The clearinghouse conveys unified responses about local developments from the perspective of civil society, particularly given the present crisis in the Palestinian territories. The website will also highlight the real effects the many changes and decisions have had on Palestinians' lives over the past several years, and also provides tools for the public to take action on specific issues. People's Health Movement The People's Health Movement (PHM) aims to draw on and support people’s movements in their struggles to build long-term and sustainable solutions to health problems. PNGO Network PNGO was established in September 1993, as a quick response to the signing of the Oslo Agreements with an objective to enhance coordination, consultation, and cooperation between member organizations working in different developmental domains. Throughout the past eight years PNGO has become an important component of the Palestinian civil society. ReliefWeb's Palestinian Occupied Territory page ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA). This page contains a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to Occupied Palestinian Territory. United Nations Humanitarian Information Centre for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPT-HIC). The aim of the oPt-HIC is to serve as a focal point for comprehensive and relevant information on the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. It is a resource for decision-makers and operational organisations to assist the humanitarian response in country. It will also be a public information resource for the national and international community. In addition to providing systematic access to information on humanitarian needs vis-à-vis available resources, the oPt-HIC focuses in particular on the humanitarian impact of closures and curfews on the affected population. PNGO Network PNGO was established in September 1993, as a quick response to the signing of the Oslo Agreements with an objective to enhance coordination, consultation, and cooperation between member organizations working in different developmental domains. Throughout the past eight years PNGO has become an important component of the Palestinian civil society. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) UNRWA provides education, health, and relief and social services to 3.8 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Welfare Association Consortium The Palestinian NGO Project is a World Bank financed project, managed by the Welfare Association Consortium, to assist Palestinian non-governmental organizations in providing needed services to the poor, the marginalized and the disadvantaged in the West Bank and Gaza. The Project Management Organization (PMO) is made up of a consortium of the Welfare Association, The British Council and UK based Charities Aid Foundation. Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling Established in 1991 WCLAC is a Jerusalem-based Palestinian NGO working to promote the legal and social status of Palestinian women. As a leading defender of women's rights in Palestine, the centre has built its reputation on its uncompromising commitment to providing a legal and social network of protection for women in need of it. In an environment such as Palestine, where human rights abuses are rampant, the plight of women is often overlooked. WCLAC attempts to deal with women's rights within the context of the broader human rights struggle in Palestine. Zeina, the Center for Family and Friends of Children with Cancer Zeina Center is a Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization concerned with providing psychological, emotional and logistical support to the children suffering from cancer, and their families. The center aims to support and counsel families so to face the disease, to help ease its side effects and to overcome it. The project also seeks to raise public awareness of the problem and change social views of cancer sufferers.