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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
20 June 2024
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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Decontaminating the Land of Western Sahara
By :porunsaharalibre
03 March 2022
Morocco once again contaminates large areas of Western Sahara with landmines   ALGIERS – APS.dz.- The Operations Officer of the Saharawi Mine Action Coordination Office “SAMACO”, Ghithi Nah Al-Bashir, confirmed that Morocco destroyed 14 years of humanitarian work to which Polisario contributed heavily, to clean up the region of landmines, and recontaminated
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Sheikh Jarrah: Court Halts Evictions (for now)
By :Aljazeera
01 March 2022
Israeli top court suspends Palestinian evictions in Sheikh Jarrah The ruling is a culmination of a decades-long struggle for Palestinian residents to stay in their homes.     Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that a group of Palestinian families slated for eviction from the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah can remain in their homes
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Tel Aviv Eviction: 1st Arabs, Then Mizrahi Jews
By :Ran Shimoni, Haaretz
15 November 2021
Tel Aviv Evicts Residents of Working-class Neighborhood after a Decades-long Battle   Some of the Givat Amal residents are barricading in their homes as police are trying to evict them     Police evicted the final 32 families from Tel Aviv’s Givat Amal Bet neighborhood on Monday, after 60 years of legal battles and even
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Consultation: General Comment on Land & ESCR
By :HIC-HLRN
07 May 2021
Consultation on the draft General Comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights   Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 14:30 – 16:30 CEST (live on Zoom from Villa Moynier, Geneva)   Everyone needs land – to be enjoyed as a requisite of human life on this planet.   Currently, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and
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EU: 7 States Demand Israel End Demolitions
By :Ronan McGreevy, The Irish Times
26 February 2021
Ireland condemns Israeli destruction of Bedouin homes in West Bank Seven European countries call for the end of demolition of homes and schools     Ireland, as a member of the UN Security Council, has called on Israel to halt the demolition and confiscation of Bedouin homes in the Jordan Valley.   Ireland, Estonia and Norway, along with permanent members of the Security
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New Study: 1 in 4 Arabs Live in Fear of Eviction
By :Prindex
23 February 2021
1 in 4 people in the Arab world live in fear of eviction – new study   A study published today by the property rights index Prindex finds that 24% of people living in the Arab region fear eviction. This represents 52 million people across the 13 Arabic-speaking countries surveyed and one of
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`What Hell Feels Like`: Israel Razes Family`s Hut
By :Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, Haaretz
16 October 2020
`What Hell Feels Like`: Israel Demolished This Palestinian Family`s Hut. They Have Nowhere to Go   For 20 years, a diabetic Palestinian woman who is going blind lived with her family in a wretched encampment in the Jordan Valley. In recent weeks, Israeli forces demolished the site twice, and they threaten to
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Housing and Land Rights Violations in the Naqab
By :Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
05 October 2020

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Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses
30 July 2020

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Documents (40)

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Publication Date

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

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

30 July 2020

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

30 July 2020

Statement on the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the Situation in Palestine, and seeking a ruling on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction

20 December 2019

بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة

20 December 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

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

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

الحكومات المحلية والمجتمعات المستضيفة تجاه أزمة اللاجئين، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC

18 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)

19 December 2014

ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles

11 July 2013

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

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

30 June 2011

Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City

01 July 2010

السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث

22 May 2010

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

21 November 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar

31 December 2001

قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)

10 September 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Land. That’s What Habitat Was About

23 June 1976

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)

01 June 1967

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