{"id":4352,"date":"2012-05-14T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2013-03-03T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T08:32:12","slug":"poverty-is-not-fated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/05\/14\/poverty-is-not-fated\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Is Not Fated &#8211; Policies of Poverty in East Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jerusalem Day will be marked next Sunday, and the Israeli media will put a spotlight on the city \u2013 but what will, once again, remain in the dark? Here&#8217;s a hint:<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3BZhs9gzcc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) invites you to watch the short film &#8220;Fated to Poverty?! Policies of Poverty in East Jerusalem&#8221; (see preview above), which we will release on YouTube this coming Wednesday. Meet Hanni Alami, Darwish Darwish, Lana Warwar, and Nisreen Alyan, who will present the problems and the solutions offered by activists and civil society advocates working together to build a better future in East Jerusalem.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis is an opportunity to acknowledge the reality of life in East Jerusalem \u2013 the outcome of a systematic policy of neglect and harm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>78% of the residents live below the poverty line;<\/li>\n<li>40% of the students do not finish 12 years of education;<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 90,000 Jerusalem residents are separated from their city by the barrier;<\/li>\n<li>Only 15% of the women are part of the work force;<\/li>\n<li>1 in 3 Jerusalemites is a Palestinian, yet only 17% of the land is available for them to build their homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn conjunction with the release of the film, ACRI will be publishing a report with updated facts and figures relating to East Jerusalem, mapping obstacles in employment for Palestinians in the city, and laying concrete demands for the authorities to better the situation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn light of this difficult situation, there is much to be done \u2013 but we believe that change is possible: <strong>Poverty is not fated.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Day will be marked next Sunday, and the Israeli media will put a spotlight on the city \u2013 but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/05\/14\/poverty-is-not-fated\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,73,76,48,75,77,206,33,74,26,44,27,47,66],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-jerusalem","category-citizenship-and-residency-east-jerusalem","category-health-and-environment","category-housing-rights","category-planning-and-building-rights","category-police-and-security-guards","category-provision-of-services","category-racism-and-discrimination","category-right-to-education","category-social-and-economic-rights","category-the-right-to-education","category-the-right-to-equality","category-the-right-to-health","category-welfare","tag-publications"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}