Libanon heeft de omstandigheden van de Palestijnse vluchtelingen wat versoepeld en ze kunnen nu op meer gebieden werken, al blijven een aantal banen nog steeds onbereikbaar. Opvallend is, dat de Libanese discriminatie van Palestijnen zelden de verontwaardiging oproept van apologeten van de Palestijnen. Palestijnen leven er onder beroerde omstandigheden en hebben er geen rechten.
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Report: Lebanon grants refugees work rights
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Published today (updated) 17/08/2010 21:20
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Published today (updated) 17/08/2010 21:20
BEIRUT (Ma'an) -- Lebanon's parliament on Tuesday adopted a law granting full employment rights to the 400,000 Palestinian refugees living in the country, a high-ranking official told Agence France-Presse.
"Parliament approved a bill lifting former restrictions on employment for Palestinian refugees, who will now have the right to work in any field open to foreigners with benefits including social security from their own special fund," the official said.
In June, the Progressive Socialist Party and the Syrian Social National Party forwarded a draft law to the Lebanese parliament granting Palestinians in Lebanon access to property ownership, social security benefits, and various professions.
Voting on the draft legislation is due on 17 August, after the process was postponed twice in a bid to achieve consensus.
Approximately 425,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with many living in the country's 12 refugee camps. According to UNRWA, the UN body set up to assist Palestinian refugees, in 2005, officially registered Palestine refugees born in Lebanon were allowed by law to work in the clerical and administrative sectors for the first time.
However, refugees remain unable to work in some professions as doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers, or accountants.
Shortly after the bill was proposed, PLO representative to Lebanon Abdallah Abdallah said there was no intent for Palestinians to ask for political rights or access to state social services. "What the Palestinians want is the right to work like any other foreign nationals," he said.
In February, Fatah's secretary-general in Lebanon, Sultan Abul Enayn, publicly confirmed his resignation from his post over a failure of the Palestinian leadership to heed his warnings of increasingly grim circumstances faced by refugees.
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"Parliament approved a bill lifting former restrictions on employment for Palestinian refugees, who will now have the right to work in any field open to foreigners with benefits including social security from their own special fund," the official said.
In June, the Progressive Socialist Party and the Syrian Social National Party forwarded a draft law to the Lebanese parliament granting Palestinians in Lebanon access to property ownership, social security benefits, and various professions.
Voting on the draft legislation is due on 17 August, after the process was postponed twice in a bid to achieve consensus.
Approximately 425,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with many living in the country's 12 refugee camps. According to UNRWA, the UN body set up to assist Palestinian refugees, in 2005, officially registered Palestine refugees born in Lebanon were allowed by law to work in the clerical and administrative sectors for the first time.
However, refugees remain unable to work in some professions as doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers, or accountants.
Shortly after the bill was proposed, PLO representative to Lebanon Abdallah Abdallah said there was no intent for Palestinians to ask for political rights or access to state social services. "What the Palestinians want is the right to work like any other foreign nationals," he said.
In February, Fatah's secretary-general in Lebanon, Sultan Abul Enayn, publicly confirmed his resignation from his post over a failure of the Palestinian leadership to heed his warnings of increasingly grim circumstances faced by refugees.
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Fatah welcomes new Lebanese law
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Published today (updated) 17/08/2010 21:20
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Fatah said it welcomed the passing of a law in the Lebanese parliament on Tuesday, which granted Palestinian refugees full employment rights a spokesman said.
Party spokesman Ahmad Assaf said the decision was "a step in the right direction" and would lessen the burden on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
The law gives the more than 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon access to previously prohibited professions in the fields of medicine, law, engineering and finance. Concern over Palestinian influence on both the Lebanese economy and the political sphere both kept refugees isolated from the workforce and in the camps.
"The Palestinian presence in Lebanon is temporary and President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized this when he said we are guests in Lebanon," Assaf added, addressing concerns that the law would destabilize efforts to secure the right of return for Palestinians to their homes and a Palestinian state.
Thanking Lebanese leaders and parties, Assaf said the refugee issue will be concluded once Palestinians are afforded the right of return under UN resolution 194.
Agence France-Presse quoted a high ranking Lebanese official following the passing of the law, saying, "Parliament approved a bill lifting former restrictions on employment for Palestinian refugees, who will now have the right to work in any field open to foreigners with benefits including social security from their own special fund."
Party spokesman Ahmad Assaf said the decision was "a step in the right direction" and would lessen the burden on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
The law gives the more than 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon access to previously prohibited professions in the fields of medicine, law, engineering and finance. Concern over Palestinian influence on both the Lebanese economy and the political sphere both kept refugees isolated from the workforce and in the camps.
"The Palestinian presence in Lebanon is temporary and President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized this when he said we are guests in Lebanon," Assaf added, addressing concerns that the law would destabilize efforts to secure the right of return for Palestinians to their homes and a Palestinian state.
Thanking Lebanese leaders and parties, Assaf said the refugee issue will be concluded once Palestinians are afforded the right of return under UN resolution 194.
Agence France-Presse quoted a high ranking Lebanese official following the passing of the law, saying, "Parliament approved a bill lifting former restrictions on employment for Palestinian refugees, who will now have the right to work in any field open to foreigners with benefits including social security from their own special fund."
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