Report highlights crippling economic cost of West Bank mobility restrictions
Bethlehem, November 21, 2012 – A report released today by the Applied Research Institute (ARIJ) highlights the crippling costs of Israeli mobility restrictions within the West Bank, revealing how internal closure cost the Palestinian economy USD223 million in 2007 – equivalent to [...]
ARIJ and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture launch project to preserve and rehabilitate forests in the oPt.
Bethlehem, 13 November 2012:- The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ), in partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), is pleased to announce the inception of the project entitled:” Palestinian Forests Sustainability and Rehabilitation” Al Qarin Protected Areas in the Southern West Bank [...]
ARIJ submits it’s observation report to the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Bethlehem, November 10, 2012— the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem ARIJ represented by Mr. Suhail Khalilieh briefed the UNHRC’s Dispatched International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on the latest Israeli geopolitical violations within the occupied Palestinian territories during a [...]
ARIJ meets The GBB Initiative technical assistance group
ARIJ meets The Global Business Bridges Initiative technical assistance group Bethlehem 6, November 2012:- The Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) hosted a delegation leading a research team assessing the feasibility study for the Global Business Bridges Initiative “ the GBB Initiative ”. [...]
ARIJ briefs EU consul generals and international bodies representatives in the oPt
Bethlehem, October 31, 2012— International bodies, EU Consul Generals and Representatives in the oPt of the various countrieswere briefedon the latest Israeli geopolitical violations within the occupied Palestinian territories during a brief on Wednesday’s as part of the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem [...]
World Wide Views Press Release
World Wide Views on Biodiversity citizen participation project recognized at COP11 in India One of the outcomes of the recently concluded meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP11) about the future protection of biodiversity, has [...]
World Wide Views on Biodiversity Voting Results
Summary for Palestine Prepared by the Applied Research Institute- Jerusalem (ARIJ) 18th October 2012 World Wide Views on Biodiversity (WWViews on Biodiversity) is a global democratic deliberation on biodiversity. It gathered citizen views on international biodiversity policy issues and disseminated them to [...]
The Water Regime in the West Bank By Matthew Richard and Jad Issac
For more than 44 years, the Israeli Occupation has violated the Palestinian right to the equitable and reasonable utilisation of shared water resources. Following the 1967 War, Israel initiated its occupation of the Palestinian territory and swiftly imposed military orders to achieve [...]