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Committee: 6th Legal Country: Lebanon Joey Kovar Tustin High School

A. Physical Geography


 * 1) Republic of Lebanon
 * 2) Hot and dry summers, cold and rainy winters
 * 3) [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/COMPAQ%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image002.jpg width="329" height="353"]]
 * 4) Lebanon is a 217 km from east to west and is a total of 10,452 square km.
 * 5) 33 degrees north and 35 degrees east.
 * 6) Lots of snow during the winters

B. Political Geography 4. Lebanon is a pariliamentary democracy 5. Bayrut 6. 72,100 male and female. Ranked 57th largest army in the world.

C. Cultural Geography 7. Arabic. The major religion in Lebanon is Hebrew 8. 3,971,941 9. Tripoli, Baalbek, Jounyeh 10. Infant mortality rate: 22.59 deaths out of 1000 births. Men: 70 years Women: 74 years

D. Economic Geography 11. In 2008, there is a .30 GDP making it ranked number 205 in the world. 12. Almost one forth of Lebanon is cultivated. 13. Limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land. 14. Plastic manufacturers of disposable food packaging, bottles, cigarette filters 15. Apples, Fresh Barley, Beans, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, and Butter 16. Lebanon Pound 17. Export in 2008: 1354.2 million dollars Import in 2008: 93.7 million dollars 18. The Sabra and shitila Massacre (16-18 September 1982**)** http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/lebanon.htm http://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/lebanon-lat-long.html http://www.indexmundi.com/lebanon/agriculture/ http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/asia/lebanon/currency.htm

Background: Refugees are people who flee to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution from their original country. Generally, refugees have very little rights because most countries dislike them a lot. Most refugees fled their own countries because of their own problems back home. These problems may include war or violence. In 2005, the largest source of refugees were [|Palestinian Territories], [|Afghanistan] , [|Iraq] , [|Myanmar] , and [|Sudan]. There are a total of 12 major refugee camps in Lebanon. Nahr el-Bared is the largest with as many as 45,337 refugees. There are,however, a total of about 214,736 refugees in these 12 camps in Lebanon. This only counts for 52 percent of all the refugees.

UN Involvment: The lead international agency coordinating refugee protection is the Office of the [|United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees] (UNHCR), which counted 8,400,000 refugees worldwide at the beginning of 2006. The UN has also made the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This organization was started by the UN just for Palestine Refugees. The UNRWA provides an educational service for every aspect. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26382&Cr=darfur&Cr1=chad http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26382&Cr=darfur&Cr1=chad

Country Policy: Lebanon has taken in more that 214,000 refugees from other countries. Though this number may seem to be huge, this is not as not near as many as in some other parts of the world. So Lebanon is will to help people that need help for any particular reasons. Lebanon would like, however to see why that particular person has run away and then decide weather or not to let them into Lebanon. If they are running away from a crime he commited, then he should be punished. But, if the country he is running away from is treating him unfairly, then he can become a refugee in Lebanon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/06/12/lebanon-end-abuse-palestinians-fleeing-refugee-camp http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/world/middleeast/21cnd-lebanon.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin