{"id":3482,"date":"2008-07-30T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2008-07-30T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:48:39","slug":"does-the-international-aid-system-violate-palestinians-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Does the International Aid System Violate Palestinians&#8217; Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After reading, please consider making a donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalia.ps\/\">Dalia Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalia.ps\/\">By Dalia Association<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Self-determination is a fundamental principle of  international lawi that enshrines the rights of individuals and peoples to  freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development, and the  obligation of all states to respect and promote the realisation of these rights  in conformity with the provisions of the UN Charter. For the Palestinian people,  the lack of statehood, continued military occupation, and dispossession are key  obstacles to self- determination. A less obvious obstacle to Palestinian  self-determination is the international aid system itself.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians in the occupied territory are the largest  per capita (not absolute) recipients of international aid, but despite the  billions of dollars spent, \u201cdevelopment\u201d has not resulted. Whereas the  60-year-long conflict with Israel is the obvious source of the problem, the  international aid system is exacerbating hopelessness and helplessness by  objectifying beneficiaries and making them feel like beggars. Palestinians\u2019 lack  of control over nearly all aspects of their lives &#8211; including how resources are  used on their behalf &#8211; contradicts all enabling factors for health, democracy,  sustainable development, and non-violent social change.<\/p>\n<p>Dalia  Association, the first Palestinian \u201ccommunity foundation\u201d was established in  2007 after founders conducted more than 150 interviews with Palestinian civil  society activists, development professionals, and philanthropy experts. We found  that governmental donors\u2019 well-funded agendas are suffocating indigenous  leadership, local initiative, and self-reliance. Palestinian civil society has  lost credibility and impact through its dependence on international aid. Many  Palestinian NGOs have become accountable to donors and alienated from the  grassroots. Volunteerism, once vibrant, has given way to passivity as millions  of people have come to rely on food aid, free shelter, and handouts. In other  words, our research found that the international aid system disempowers  Palestinians and denies their right to self- determination in the development  process.ii <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com\/details.php?id=2537&#038;ed=156&#038;edid=156 \">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading, please consider making a donation to Dalia Association By Dalia Association Self-determination is a fundamental principle of international lawi that enshrines the rights of individuals and peoples to freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development, and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}