Interregional Cooperation: The issue of water in Jordan, Palestine and Israel
The "Protecting Groundwater" project
The "Protecting Groundwater" project
International Seminar and Meeting Debate
Presentation made by Professor H. Koren, -University of Haifa- on the ocassion of the first CEMOFPSC workshop in Italy
If transitional phases are seen as the most difficult for people and societies, the scene in Egypt is even more complicated for several reasons.
The Palestinian People have been under occupying powers from its very beginning: first the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, Egypt and Jordan and after 1967 until 1993 the State of Israel.
When FPSC started working in West Bank in 1995, it was just by funding a vocational training program in Bir Zeit Latin school, granted by the Spanish cooperation.
The general objective is to improve the quality of education at Palestinian schools in the southern and middle of the country. Jerusalem, Bethlehem and North Hebron directorates.
Since 2001, when FPSC obtained its first special consultive status with ECOSOC of the United Nations, and then later in 2004 its general status, its objective was to collaborate with ECOSOC in its High Level Segment and since 2007 with its Annual Ministerial Review Development as well s its Cooperation Forum.
Among the international commitments for the right to education for all we find the Universal Human Rights Declaration (1948)
The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations was estalished under its charter as the principal organ to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies, functional commissions and five regional commissions.