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News (10)
Alarming Land Degradation in the Arab Region
By :FAO
17 June 2025
Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation — over 46 million hectares — are agricultural land. Rome - A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed concerning levels of agricultural land degradation, particularly in the Arab region, where more than 46 million hectares of
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On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
15 May 2025
On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe   A Report by Land Research Center on the 77th Anniversary of the First Palestinian Nakba (1948) "After they shot her husband and her five-year-old son before her eyes, she pleaded them to let her two-year-old son
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Israeli Cabinet Dispossesses Palestinians from Area C Lands
By :Peace Now
12 May 2025
The Cabinet Decides to Initiate Land Registration Process that would Dispossess Palestinians from their Lands the West Bank Update from 14/5/25: The State attached the text of the cabinet decision to a request it submitted to the court. The cabinet decision could be found here.   On Sunday, 11/5/25, the Security Cabinet decided to initiate land registration
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Israel Seizes Control of West Bank`s Area C Land Registry, Cementing Annexation
By :Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin, Middle East Eye
12 May 2025
Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank`s Area C, cementing annexation Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank     Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in Area C of the
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A Lake Remade: How Manzala’s Waters Became Clear Enough to Fish for Money
By :Nada Arafat, Mostafa Hosny- Mada news
08 May 2025
For over 40 years, Mohamed Okasha earned his living fishing in Lake Manzala. It was his only livelihood — the means by which he fed his family, put his children through school and married them off. But over the decades, he watched the lake — or “the sea,” as locals
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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights
By :Oakland Institute
30 April 2025
  Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights   A new report exposes the exploitation of the climate crisis by the World Bank to advance a global land grab agenda for corporate interests that will fuel dispossession across the Global South. Under the guise of accessing land for climate action, the
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Israeli Settlers Commit over 5,350 Violations in Occupied West Bank since 2015
By :TRT World & Agencies
21 March 2025
Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in occupied West Bank in past decade: Report The report details a wide range of illegal settler violations, including stone-throwing at Palestinians, their homes, and vehicles, as well as arson attacks targeting houses, businesses, farms, and other private properties.     Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in
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The Bad Samaritans: Settlers Grab Grazing Land
By :Kerem Navot and Peace Now
20 March 2025
Land Grabbing by Israeli Settlers in the Occupied West Bank Through Grazing Kerem Navot and Peace Now have published a joint report revealing how a small group of violent settlers, with support from the Israeli government, have taken control of 14% of the West Bank by establishing over 100 shepherding outposts,
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Israel’s West Bank Outposts Proliferate since 7 October 2023, Palestinians Fear Annexation
By :Allegra Goodwin, Nada Bashir and Gianluca Mezzofiore, with contributions by Kareem Khadder/CNN
20 March 2025
Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next       BARDALA, West Bank—Jihad Suleiman al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, al-Sawafta said
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Documents (67)

Document Title

Publication Date

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT

06 September 2023

Climate Finance in Egypt (table)

10 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 2022

Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects

23 April 2022

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

16 March 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa

10 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن

28 January 2021

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

28 January 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 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

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Campesinos y de Otras Personas que Trabajan en las Zonas Rurales

20 November 2018

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales

20 November 2018

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 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

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

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

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities

23 June 2017

Tunisia: Jemna Oasis Land Struggle

13 April 2017

المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة

23 January 2017

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

HIC comments on Habitat III draft of 27 July 2016

27 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

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

19 July 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)

24 May 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 2016

تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016

09 April 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

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

18 November 2015

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Abu Ghalib Village Reparations

16 March 2014

High Level Expert Forum on Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises Report (September 2012)

14 September 2012

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إعلان نييليني

27 February 2007

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

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