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XLV° Tafsut Imazighen / 45th Amazigh Spring
By :Akal Presse
20 April 2025
XLV° Tafsut Imazighen / 45th Amazigh Spring     Tafsut Imazighen – the Amazigh Spring – is one of the most significant moments in the long struggle of the Amazighs to restore their historic rights in their country.   It emerged following the great popular uprising of the Kabyles in Algeria, which began on April 20,
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Solidarity with Small-scale Farmers on International Day of Peasant Struggles
By :GNR2FN
17 April 2025
International Day of Peasant Struggles:  Joint Statement of Peasant and Solidarity Organizations   Today, we join hands with peasants, fisher peoples, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles.    Land grabbing continues to intensify, driven by
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Urban Indigenous Resistance Takes Rio 2025 Carnival Center Stage, Despite Threats
By :Dayse Alves, Rio on Watch
28 February 2025
Maracanã Village Urban Indigenous Resistance Takes Center Stage at Rio 2025 Carnival, Despite Threats of Forced Eviction and Carnival Fire Even After the Fire, Unidos de Bangu Brings Carnival Theme `Maraka’anandê Ancestral Resistance` to the Sambadrome     In Aldeia Maracanã (Maracanã Village), an indigenous village located next to the iconic soccer stadium of the same
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Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Stand with UN Special Rapporteur
By :PHROC
25 October 2024
Standing with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Face of Israeli-Led, Western-Backed, Intensified Attacks Amid Ongoing Genocide    While Israel continues its relentless genocidal campaign in Gaza for the 385th day—marked by mass killings, forced displacement, widespread destruction, enforced disappearance, torture, and starvation— it, with backing from Western allies, has
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The Land and Its People: Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa
By :HIC-HLRN
20 August 2024

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Israeli Settlers Suffocating Palestinian Shepherds with Land Theft
By :Al Mayadeen English, The Guardian and Haaretz
19 May 2024
Israeli settlers suffocating Palestinian shepherds with land theft Settler intimidation has caused 18 pastoral groups to leave their homes in the Jordan Valley, according to data released by the Israeli B`Tselem in March.   Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are reporting an increase in land theft by armed Israeli settlers who are
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Egypt: Modernization Demolishing Heritage
By :Ahmed Galal, The New Arab
05 September 2023
`An iconoclasm`: Demolishing Egypt`s heritage for modernisation In Cairo, ancient buildings and cultural sites are being razed to the ground to make way for new urban development projects, erasing the country`s rich history.     Government-commissioned bulldozers continue to raze to pieces one ancient tomb after another in the City of the Dead, a sprawling necropolis in
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‘Like 1948’: Israel Ethnically Cleanses Vast West Bank Region
By :Oren Ziv, +972 mag, in partnership with Local Call/ שיחה מקומית
31 August 2023
‘It’s like 1948’: Israel cleanses vast West Bank region of nearly all Palestinians In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land.     There are almost no
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500 Palestinians Face Forced Eviction, Displacement and Segregation
By :AMnesty International
28 July 2023
Israel/oPt: 500 Palestinians facing forcible eviction, displacement, and segregation    An Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the forced eviction of 500 Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev/Naqab region, highlighting the deep discrimination that Palestinian citizens of Israel face under apartheid, Amnesty International said today. In a judgment issued on 27 July,
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Sudan Conflict: Hundreds of Thousands Fleeing Violence
By :Robin Millard, AFP
02 May 2023
The fighting that erupted in Sudan on April 15 has already sent hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives, and the United Nations is bracing for many more to follow.   The conflict between the army and a paramilitary group has displaced more than 330,000 people within the country and more than
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Documents (46)

Document Title

Publication Date

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

16 March 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020

25 September 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 2020

Process from Problem to Solution (graphic)

12 November 2018

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Tunisia: Jemna Oasis Land Struggle

13 April 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda

19 July 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau

19 March 2016

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

المنتدى الحضري العالمي السادس: مستقبل المدن

09 July 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19

15 June 2006

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda

30 June 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

HIC Global Policy Declaration

15 June 1989

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