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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 More...
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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. More...
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Revealed: The Hamas-backed Gaza 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 More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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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, More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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Palestine/Israel: The Fight for Lifta |
By :Nada AlTaher and Juman Jarallah, The National |
24 June 2021 |
Ancient village is one of hundreds that were violently depopulated by Jewish militias as Israel was formed in 1948
In a quiet valley in Jerusalem lies a village frozen in time.
Its stone buildings have stood for centuries and have long since been overtaken by plants and weeds.
This is Lifta and it More...
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