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Unlike other refugee groups that fall under the mandate of UNHCR with the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN created the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in 1949. The long-standing nature of a temporary agency has led to some unique challenges in serving those who have held refugee status for 66 years.
Read MoreFor most people, getting shot in the head would slow them down but that is not the case for Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who inadvertently became an international advocate for girl’s education and a target of the Taliban. Today, Yousafzai spoke at the Social Good Summit in New York as well as made her Twitter debut in order to raise awareness of the issue of equal education. She is also preparing for the official launch of her new project, The Malala Fund, which will open next month.
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