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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Olfat Mahmoud - No Human Rights in the Camps
Description: Given the events of the past week with the explosion in Beirut it is important to revisit a talk given by Olfat Mahmoud from the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organisation to unionists at Qld Coucil of Unions in 2018.
Dr Mahmoud gives a short history of the struggle of the Palestinian people starting with the Balfour declaration in 1917. Refigees are denied the right of return to their towns, villages and farms. They are stateless.
These are the main political points I took away from Dr Olfat Mahmoud's talk:
1) Palestinian refugees in camps outside the occupied Palestinian territories (in places like Lebanon) do...