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Author Bio

Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco as well as a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. She is the editor and author of eight books and numerous articles on issues of peace, human rights, migration, and education. Dr. Bajaj has developed curriculum and teacher training materials—particularly related to human rights, racial justice, ethnic studies, and sustainability—for non-profit and national advocacy organizations as well as inter-governmental organizations, such as UNICEF and UNESCO. In 2015, she received the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award (2015) from Division B of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). mibajaj@usfca.edu

Jazzmin Chizu Gota is a doctoral student in International and Multicultural Education with a concentration in Human Rights Education at University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on informal educational spaces and intergenerational knowledges as informed by social justice and human rights frameworks. She works in interdisciplinary visual arts and education consulting for human rights and social justice projects and programs and is a co-managing editor of the International Journal of Human Rights Education, and represents the national human rights education network HRE USA as a co-regional representative for Northern California. jcgota@dons.usfca.edu

David Andrew Tow is a high school English, social science, regional occupation program (ROP), and environmental leadership teacher and seven-time teacher of the year at Terra Linda High School, a public school just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. He is a member of the California Federation of Teachers’ Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Committee and a co-managing editor of the International Journal of Human Rights Education. He is also a doctoral student in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, with an emphasis on Human Rights Education. datow@dons.usfca.edu

Abstract

This article discusses the history and educational activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), an agency created in 1949 immediately after the founding of the state of Israel and the initial dispossession and displacement of the Palestinian people (1948). The trajectory of this organization and current uncertainty about its future, as well as how it has integrated human rights into its curriculum, sheds light on the rights and realities of Palestinian refugees.

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