NGO INDEX
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Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation (PYALARA)
- Website: www.pyalara.org
- Location: Al-Biereh (near Ramallah), branches in Gaza and Nablus
- Founded in 1999
- “One of our main objectives is to prevent young Palestinians from becoming thoroughly frustrated as a result of the harsh conditions under which they are forced to live.”
- Produces a youth newspaper and television program, conducts seminars and training sessions, and operates a peer counseling hotline. The paper is distributed at Palestinian government and UNRWA schools.
- According to a PYALARA official, Palestinian youths’ “sexual problems, fights with their parents and all sorts of difficulties that appear to be unrelated to the occupation ... can be attributed to the present situation.”
- Refers to the security barrier as the “apartheid wall.”
- Director Hania Bitar signed a July 2006 letter demanding “the cessation of the irresponsible and totally unacceptable policy of deprivation and collective punishment” in Gaza.
- After NGO Monitor published a 2003 report on PYALARA’s praise for the head of the PFLP terror group and its implied justification of suicide bombing, PYALARA removed the related material from its website.
- Funders include: UNICEF, Cordaid, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, European Commission, Foundation for Middle East Peace, International Committee of the Red Cross, Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
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