Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights
is an Israeli NGO thatwas established in 1999 by planners and architects with the vision of strengthening the connection between the planning systems and humanrights. Bimkom is using professional tools in order to promote equality andsocial justice in planning, development and allocation of land resources.Bimkom assists communities disadvantaged by economic, social or civilcircumstances to exercise their planning rights
Written by
Nir Shalev, Alon Cohen-Lifshitz
Researched by
Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, Diana Mardi, Nir Shalev
Field work by
Diana Mardi
Mapping by
Nava Sheer
English translation by
Shaul Vardi
Counseling:
Ernest R. Alexander, Dalia Dromi, Shmuel Groag,Yehezkel Lein,
Karin Lindner
Legal counseling by attorney
Neta Amar-Shif
, Rabies for HumanRights, and attorney Sleiman Shahin, Jerusalem Center for Legal Aidand Human Rights (JLAC)Cover photograph: a residential buliding demolished by theCivil Administration in the village of Al Funduq; photograph:
Alon Cohen-Lifshitz
, photograph processing:
Gama Design
Design:
Gama Design