Negev Bedouins and Unrecognized Villages
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The Arab Bedouin minority of the Negev is one of the most discriminated groups within the Arab population and within Israeli society as a whole. More than half of the approximately 160,000 Negev Bedouins reside in unrecognized villages, which the state refuses to provide with a planning structure and place under municipal jurisdiction. The government uses a variety of measures to pressure Bedouins into relocating to government-planned urban centers that disregard their lifestyle and needs. Whole communities have been issued demolition orders; others are forced to continue living in unrecognized villages that are denied basic services and infrastructure, such as electricity and running water.
ACRI seeks to protect the rights of the Negev Bedouin by promoting village recognition as a means of eradicating the constant threat of demolition and relocation, while beginning to improve living conditions and access to state resources. Additionally, ACRI opposes current and new settlement construction on land inhabited by residents of unrecognized villages.
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ACRI challenges plans to forcibly evict Bedouin residents
April 17, 2007
ACRI urgently protested the evacuation-compensation plan that, according to media reports, proposes the forced relocation of Bedouin residents to urban … Read more
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Following ACRI report, UN Condemns Discrimination in Israel, OPT
March 11, 2007
ACRI, which submitted written and oral information to the Committee, welcomes the conclusions on the issues that we are seeking … Read more
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State reneges on promise to Bedouin population
October 17, 2006
As a result of the Supreme Court’‘s deliberation on the petition submitted by ACRI, to protest the state decision to … Read more
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ACRI demands education institutions for village of Rachma
January 25, 2006
ACRI urgently appealed on behalf of a group of 120 children in the village of Rachma who have no viable … Read more
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A three year old Cancer patient will remain without electricity
November 28, 2005
By: Shabtai Gold, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Enass al Atrash, a resident of an unrecognized Arab-Bedouin village in the Negev, … Read more
