Land Distribution and Planning Rights
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Land distribution and planning rights are among the spheres in which Arab citizens of Israel are subject to severe inequality and discrimination. Lacking adequate housing solutions and planning infrastructure, which will enable legal construction in Arab villages and towns, residents are left with no choice other than building without permits. Despite the state’s responsibility for this situation, it maintains a policy of house demolitions in Arab localities and mixed cities on the grounds of lacking a permit, and continues to refuse permits for new construction which results in the gradual, systematic strangling of small villages.
ACRI uses legal means and public advocacy to protest home demolitions, to encourage the recognition of unrecognized villages and neighborhoods, to challenge discriminatory policies within mixed Israeli cities, and to oppose new settlement construction on Arab-owned land or in areas currently inhabited by unrecognized populations.
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Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination and Violates Rights of the Negev Bedouin
April 1, 2012
Today (1 April 2012), human rights organizations Adalah and Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted their reservations … Read more
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ACRI’s Shadow Report to the UN Committee on Economic and Social Rights
November 2, 2011
On 30 October 2011, ACRI presented a shadow report to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. … Read more
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Approval of Prawer Plan: continued discrimination of the Bedouin community
September 11, 2011
ACRI and Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights strongly condemn the government’s decision today (11 September 2011) to vote in favor of … Read more
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ACRI Calls on Government to Halt “Prawer Plan” on Bedouin Issues
September 1, 2011
The Prawer Plan, commissioned to implement the 2008 Goldberg Committee’s findings that the State of Israel must recognize the 35 … Read more
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Knesset Roundup | Summary of Summer Session 2011
August 22, 2011
Knesset Summary – Summer 2011 With the conclusion of the summer 2011 Knesset session, the Association for Civil … Read more
