BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, human rights non-profit organization committed to protect and promote the rights of

Palestinian refugees Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village or house over the course of the 1948 Palestine war and during the 1967 Six-Day War. Most Palestinian refug ...

and

internally displaced persons An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced displacement, forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the Refugee#Definitions ...

. BADIL was established in January 1998. BADIL has special consultative status with UN ECOSOC and is also part of a large number of Palestinian organisation networks. BADIL's efforts were inspired by the work Professors Susan Akram, Guy Goodwin-Gill and John Quigley, as well as the work of

Salman Abu-Sitta Salman Abu Sitta (; born 1937) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian researcher. Abu Sitta, who was Nakba, expelled from Palestine as a child in 1948, has dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause and is engaged in public debates with Israe ...

. It "pursued a solid campaign for publicizing refugee rights in various international fora" and was considered prominent among NGOs and research center working in this area in the post-Oslo period. BADIL publishes ''al-Majdal'', an English language quarterly magazine about Palestinian refugee issues.

References

External links

BADIL: Official website

Ongoing Nakba: A project of BADIL
Non-profit organizations based in Israel Organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Organizations established in 1998 Politics of Palestine {{Palestine-org-stub