�Defending forests and land is defending life

Issues adopted for advocacy must fulfill the following three criteria:

• Obvious harm to local communities
• Breach of law enforcement policies or legal gap
• Poor compliance with international conventions, or the lack of clear programs for their implementation.

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Land is not just a commodity; it is an essential element for the realization of many human rights

Forests are one of the resources that promote human rights to health, well-being, development, food and water. They primarily help to protect communities against the consequences of climate change through adaptation and mitigation

As a result, we conducted several campaigns since 2018:

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• A campaign to protect land and forests from being used as solid waste management and tree disposal stations (local and national)

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• A four-year Jordan Forest Week Campaign. (Local and Regional)

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• A campaign to protect the original use of agricultural land in the Jordan valley. (Local)

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• A campaign to document and report fires started by the occupation on Jordanian agricultural land. (Local and international)

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• A campaign to protect trees and land in the Naour region (to stop the depletion of land for solar energy projects) (local and international)

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A campaign to protect land and the forests from use as solid waste management and tree disposal stations (local, national, global)

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A campaign to protect land and the forests from being used as solid waste management and tree disposal plants (local and national)

• This campaign reflected our interest on the basis of the three previous criteria

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• We worked within the five-step methodology to build a realistic, specific, and viable campaign with a strategy

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• The problem started when some citizens notified the Dibeen Association about the government's intention to uproot 28 perennial oak trees in order to provide a waste collection station

New tactics and the land protection campaign

Prepare the action plan

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Define the problem

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Build the vision

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Define the advocacy space

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Innovate and select the tactics

Searching for the truth:

• Many related government decisions were studied
• Dibeen found out that it was an internationally funded, multi-donor project
• It was concluded that the implementer was an entity considered to be a UN organization (UNS).
• The size of local communities rejecting this project and related decisions was estimated
• Experts and human rights activists were consulted
• After research, work on the five steps was identified

General pictures of the events and tactics ... etc.

1. Active allies
2. Passive allies
3. Neutral
4. Passive adversaries
5. Active adversaries/opposers

Starting point:

The problem today

Strategy

Attacks on forest and agricultural land by citizens and government enterprises that deprive people of a sound environment and adversely affect health

Objective #2:

Raising awareness among the local community of the Jerash area to protect and care for forest trees by 25% by the end of 2019

Objective #1:

Suspending the waste station project in the area of Mintafat al-Mi’rad, Dibbeen, Jerash by the end of 2018

Land and forest resources are preserved and protected for future generations based on the human right to a healthy environment

Objective #3:

Amendment of the Land Use System 67 of 2007. Promulgated from articles 6 and 67 of the Law on the Regulation of towns, villages and buildings, and its amendments

Ongoing

The campaign continues based on the human right to a safe and sustainable environment.

Overlooking this breathtaking view, here, and with this picture, we started: the community, the people, the Dibeen Assocation and the Allaince of Associations for the Forests, started a campaign against building waste stations in the Mi’rag forest land.

Today, Thanks be to God, your efforts bore fruit. Official and international authorities implementing the project held a meeting yesterday at the Municipalties Ministry that included the minister and representatives of UNDP…..

Photos and press news

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#No_to_establishing_a_waste_station-among_ the_trees

The waste sorting station

Jirash-Al-Mi’rag

The protest at the project land on Friday (after Friday prapers) with special media coverage and the attendance of environmental activists

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(In addition to being there, you are required to mobilize family and friends to join)

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Attendance is for everyone, men and women

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No to establishing a waste station in forest areas

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#Defending_forests is defending life

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No_to_establishing_a_waste_station_among_the_trees, in their place or across from them.

Trees are wealth, so let’s protects them against any assault.

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The Alliance of Associations in Defense of Forests

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Defending forests is defending life

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Jerash: Waste sorting plant in the town of Emama pushes inhabitants to plant trees as a way of protesting against the project

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Re-planting 200 trees at the project site

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The waste station at the Mi’rad, Jerash kills nature and Jordan’s national tree

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Re-planting 200 trees at the project site

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The waste station at the Mi’rad, Jerash kills nature and Jordan’s national tree

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Response to the material published in Al-Ra’I (the Opinion) newspaper on Wednesday 25/10/2017

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Al-Mi’rad expresses reservations against the location

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Jerash municipalities calls for hastening to establish the processing station

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Leveling 12 dunums of forest land to establish it

The Jerash inhabitants demand that the Mi’rad waste station be moved away

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Electronic campaign protesting the location of the waste processing station in Jerash

Results and success

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• Communities were made aware of the importance of combined community power through practice

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• Construction of the project was suspended and the forest land preserved

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• It was the first incident to be documented by the New York Bureau of Investigation about projects undertaken by their UN agencies which contradict with human rights principles

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• Today, there are considerable caveats on undertaking similar projects which violate the basic rights of local communities.

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• It was clear that there is a need for national teams to monitor and assess the work of international programs and UNS institutions

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• Our involvement with local, regional and international networks to strengthen our role.

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What are we doing today?� We continue to use the New Tactics for Human Rights approach for the following:

• Transparency of environmental information and the rights of communities to access information on projects on their land.

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• We are trying to open the land file to have a law protecting the land. Till now legislative frameworks related to land in Jordan are weak.

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• We monitor closely projects implemented on the land We now have a campaign focusing on the depletion of land for renewable energy projects on agricultural and residential land

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Starting point:

The problem today

Strategy

Attacks on forest and agricultural land by citizens and government enterprises that deprive people of a sound environment and adversely affect health

Objective #2:

Raising awareness among the local community of the Jerash area to protect and care for forest trees by 25% by the end of 2018

Objective #1:

Suspend the waste station project in the area of Mintafat al-Mi’rad, Dibbeen, Jerash by the end of 2017

Land and forest resources are preserved and protected for future generations based on the human right to a healthy environment

Objective #3:

Amendment of the Land Use System 67 of 2007. Promulgated from articles 6 and 67 of the Law on the Regulation of towns, villages and buildings, and its amendments

☺ Thank you

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For communication and more information

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Twitter: @Dibien_jo

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Facebook: Dibien.Association

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Email: info@Dibeen.org