Welfare
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A state is measured by its ability to provide a dignified life to every person, including those who cannot provide for themselves or who find themselves outside the workforce, among them: the elderly, handicapped persons, children, families experiencing crisis, single-parent families, people with drug and alcohol addictions, and homeless people. The state must provide all of those individuals with acceptable welfare services and pensions that will serve as a safety net, enabling them to live and to lead a dignified life.
ACRI seeks not only to legally combat the issue of increasingly poor welfare commitments by the state, evident in matters like homeless eviction from public spaces, but also to raise awareness for this issue through publications highlighting decreased funding and establishing how money once allotted to social services is now being spent. ACRI seeks to challenge the perception that poverty is fated, and to ensure that equal opportunities be made available to all without discrimination. At the very least, ACRI seeks to ensure that those who find themselves living in poverty are not further burdened by policies of the State.
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“Heading to Work” – An Exact Replica of Past Bill Rejected By Knesset
May 30, 2013
The Special Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs Regarding Economic Plans will today discuss the draft law of the “Heading … Read more
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The Wisconsin Plan Returns… with the same problems
May 7, 2013
A preliminary analysis by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel reveals that even in its updated … Read more
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ACRI: Cuts in Child Allowances Puts Families at Risk
April 11, 2013
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has sent an urgent letter to the Prime Minister, Finance Minister … Read more
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ACRI’s State of Human Rights Report 2012
December 16, 2012
ACRI’s 2012 Situation Report examines the current state of human rights in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: house … Read more
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Thousands March in Tel Aviv for Human Rights
December 9, 2012
People from all over Israel came together in Tel Aviv on Friday (7 December 2012) for the fourth annual Human … Read more
Legal Work
In the Knesset
Publications
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Public Network for Health Equity Demands National Plan for Closing Health Gaps
July 6, 2011
The Public Network for Health Equity in Israel, of which ACRI is a member, calls upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu … Read more
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Social and Economic Rights in Israel 2011
May 14, 2011
Since 1985, successive Israeli governments have taken a neo-liberal approach to social and economic policy, steadily yet significantly reducing the … Read more
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ACRI Publications 2006-2010
October 27, 2010
ACRI’s Shadow Report regarding Israel’s Third Periodic Review by the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, October 2010 “Unsafe … Read more
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New ACRI Report on East Jerusalem Highlights Education, Welfare
May 10, 2010
Less than 50% of schoolchildren attend public schools; 1,000 classrooms are missing; Only 3 Social Service Stations operate in East … Read more
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ACRI’s State of Human Rights Report 2009: Rights on Condition
December 6, 2009
Annual survery finds conditioning of rights affects all members of society, weakens Israeli democracy JERUSALEM – December 6, 2009 – … Read more