“Jahalin – Nowhere To Go” – the Jahalin struggle since their transfer from the Negev-Naqab in the fifties and the transfer to Jordan and their lives in the territories since the Israeli occupation

Tuesday February 21^st at 20:00, Multaka-Mifgash

Screening of “Jahalin – No where to go” and discussion about the Jahalin with Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, Human rights activist that works with the Jahalin in the last couple of years.

Multaka-Mifgash, 7 King Solomon st. Be’er-Sheva.

For details: Michal 050-9391299

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17.02.2012

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• Event at the Multaka-Mifgash – “Jahalin – No Where To Go”
• Home Demolitions in the Negev
• Send a Letter against Prawer plan to Minister Begin
• Women conference on Prawer plan in Rahat
• The village of Al-Arakib was demolished again last Monday – the struggle continues – weekly protest every Sunday
• Movies night at Rahat community Center

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10.02.2012

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• UN Special Repporteur on Adequate Housing visit the Negev
• JNF-KKL worked this week in the lots of the village of Al-Arakib
• Women Rights in the Negev – English Lecture
• Women Rights in the Negev – English Lecture
• Home demolitions in the Negev
• The village of Al-Arakib was demolished again – the struggle continues – weekly protest every Sunday

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03.02.2012

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• Petitions
• NCF’s new reports
• Events summary
• The village of Al-Arakib was demolished again – the struggle continues – weekly protest every Sunday

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The Israeli government is determined to escalate the dispossession of the Negev Bedouin Arabs of their lands and concentrate them in towns – a process that has been ongoing for 63 years now.

The decision to accept the Prawer-Amidror plan is the culmination of a proposal to evacuate about 30,000 to 45,000 Bedouins from their homes and demolish their villages. This proposal, which is racist and discriminatory in nature, is contrary to international human rights laws and in particular, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The bill will be discussed by the present Knesset in session and likely to pass into law, leaving the civil society with no response.

The NCF and the Recognition Forum urges you to sign this petition!

Demand that the Israeli government cancel the proposed law and not present it to the Knesset; cease the persecution of its Bedouin citizens; and allow the Bedouin to live as any other citizen in the style they choose and according to their culture in rural spaces and not solely in urban communities

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• The Memorandum of law of regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev is was Published this week
• House Demolitions update
• NCF’s photography workshop in the villages – Al-Sira and Al-Arakib ended today
• The village of Al-Arakib was demolished for the 30 time – the struggle continues – weekly protest every Sunday
• “Quarry lands” conference about the state of Israel and the Bedouin lands in Sapir college

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Following the third periodic review of Israel last month, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has just released its Concluding Observations which are critical of the state’s treatment of its Bedouin citizens.

The Committee expressed its concern that the Praver-Amidror Plan, adopted by the Israeli cabinet in September 2011, “foresees a land planning scheme that will be operated in a short and limited period of time, and includes an enforcement mechanism for the implementation of the planning and construction laws” (paragraph 27). The Committee stated that the plan’s implementation must not lead to the forceful eviction of Bedouins. Further, any eviction should be based on free, prior and informed consent and that those relocated are offered adequate levels of compensation. Significantly, the Committee also recommended that Israel cease the demolition of buildings in unrecognised villages.

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