Tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 1: Bedouin Rights in Israel/Palestine
Event Notice
November 1, 2012
“Indigenous Challenge to Legal Doctrine: Bedouin Rights in Israel/Palestine”
A Talk by Oren Yiftachel and Ahmad Amara
12- 1 pm
3007 Wasserstein
Professor Oren Yiftachel, of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Ahmad Amara, Palestinian human rights lawyer and PhD candidate at New York University, will discuss a recent challenge launched in court (the ‘al-Uqbi case’) against a longstanding Israeli ‘empty Negev’ legal doctrine which has made it all but impossible for traditional land holders to gain legal ownership. The current challenge relates to global debates on issues of indigenous rights, customary law, legal pluralism and transitional justice.
Amara and Yiftachel co-edited a forthcoming book, “Indigenous (In)Justice,” which will soon be published by the Human Rights Program and distributed by Harvard University Press.