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Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza
By :Architects for Gaza/TRT
26 April 2025
Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza     War is not only fought with weapons; it is also waged through space. Gaza’s destruction is more than just rubble; it’s an assault on a people’s ability to exist, rebuild and return. “Architecture can be a form of resistance,” says Adam Khan, a volunteer architect
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Gaza Reconstruction Principles: It Must Be Palestinian Led
05 March 2025
Gaza Reconstruction Must Be Palestinian Led—Breaking the Cycle of Destruction     The signatories of this position—groups and organizations representing a broad swath of Palestinian civil society in Palestine and in exile—stand firmly by key principles and demands that must guide Gaza’s reconstruction and recovery, as well as Palestine’s broader future. This process
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Explaining Egypt`s Gaza Reconstruction Plan
By :Ahram Online
05 March 2025
Explainer: Everything you need to know about Egypt`s Gaza reconstruction plan Egypt has developed a comprehensive reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, which is counter to US President Donald Trump`s Gaza plan to take over Gaza and displace its Palestinian population.     Ahram Online obtained a draft of Egypt`s reconstruction plan for Gaza.
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Revealed: Gaza Municipalities` Reconstruction Plan
By :Ben van der Merwe and Kaitlin Tosh, digital investigations journalists, Sky News
24 January 2025
Revealed: The Hamas-backed plan for Gaza`s future The 200-page document, seen by Sky News, comes as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are set to return to northern Gaza, despite there being limited infrastructure available to support them.     Gaza`s Hamas-run municipal governments have published their first official reconstruction plan for the Gaza
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Türkiye: Accountability for Quake Deaths
By :Turkish Minute
10 February 2023
Turkey’s top bar association files complaint against contractors, gov’t officials for ‘murder’ after earthquake     The Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has filed a complaint against the contractors and government officials they claim are responsible for the buildings leveled in Monday’s major earthquakes and the resulting high death toll, local media
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New report: GOLD VI by KNOW
By :UCLG-KNOW and contributors
14 October 2022
The sixth edition of the GOLD report, “Pathways to Urban and Territorial Equality: Addressing inequalities through local transformation strategies”, is being produced by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and part of the KNOW team and will be published in October 2022. GOLD VI will focus on how local and
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan
24 April 2022
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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UNESCO Resolutions to Protect Jerusalem
By :QNN
07 April 2022
UNESCO unanimously adopts two resolutions on state of Palestine   OCCUPIED PALESTINE—The Executive Council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has unanimously adopted two resolutions on the State of Palestine.   At its 214th session held in Paris on Wednesday, the UNESCO [Executive Board] adopted a resolution on old Jerusalem
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IPCC: ‘Now or Never’ to Avoid Climate Disaster
By :Aljazeera
04 April 2022
Climate scientists from 195 countries have warned that actions to avoid climate catastrophe have been too little and too late. This failure is the subject of two reports from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past eight month. A new, third report presents what we can
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA
By :Joseph Schechla
24 March 2022
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

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

19 December 2014

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

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

16 June 1992

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