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Palestinian Rights

School run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan

The Department for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs' (DPPA) Division for Palestinian Rights provides substantive support to the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, established in 1975. The Division serves as the Secretariat of the Committee and provides the following core functions: