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South Africa: Minister Stops Visa for All Palestinians after Israeli Trafficker Crimes

By :PSC South Africa

08 December 2025

PSC Statement on the Withdrawal of the 90-day Visa Exemption for Palestinians The Palestine Solidarity Campaign notes with exceptional concern the decision issued by the Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, on 6 December 2025 withdrawing the 90-day visa exemption for Palestinian nationals. Of particular concern is that this measure does not
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Jordan Valley: New 22-km-long IDF `Barrier` Demolishes Homes, Sheep Pens and Infrastructure, Isolating Villages, Cuts off 11 Acres Land

By :Amira Hass, Haaretz

03 December 2025

In order to construct a 22-km long `barrier,` the IDF will demolish homes, sheep pens and infrastructure that `constitute an operational vulnerability,` according to a military document. One of the villages will be entirely surrounded by the fence. Residents of the area were only given a few days to file
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HIC-HLRN Condemns Israel’s Attack on Palestine’s Agricultural Work Committees

03 December 2025

In yet another attack on Palestinian civil society, while committing genocide against the Palestinian People, Israel’s occupation army raided the offices of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) on Monday morning. This follows similar assaults on prominent human rights and development organizations as part of Israel’s patterned assault on
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US Gaza Plan: Forced Ghettoisation, Aannexation, Mass Ddetention, Resource Plunder

By :Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

03 December 2025

US plan in Gaza: forced ghettoisation, annexation, mass detention, resource plunder Palestinian Territory – The consequences of the US plan to support dividing the Gaza Strip into green and red zones separated by a yellow military line carry grave risks, including the effective displacement of Palestinians from their homes and the transformation
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“New Gaza” Initiative to Move 2 million Palestinians

By :Ron Ben-Yishai, Y-net News

01 December 2025

Israeli occupation forces [referred to as IDF in this article] try to control the narrative of its genocide in Palestine while a US-backed `New Gaza` pilot in Rafah moves slowly forward. The term “resistance fighters” here replaces the author’s use of the word “terrorists”—HLRN. US `New Gaza` initiative seeks to move
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“Defeated”’: 100s of East Jerusalem Palestinians Face Eviction

By :Jason Burke in Batn al-Hawa

01 December 2025

‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem Residents in Batn al-Hawa have all but given up hope and blame the Gaza war which, they say, has created ‘an atmosphere of hate’ toward them The dome of the al-Aqsa mosque gleamed in the late afternoon autumnal sun as
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Palestine/Israel: Why Target Olive Trees Specifically?

By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh

29 November 2025

The first initiatives to form the Zionist movement began in the mid-19th century, instigated by French and British colonial powers seeking to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Their aim was to control the resources of the Arab region and its surroundings by fragmenting it and creating internal conflicts, thus
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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel

By :OHCHR

28 November 2025

Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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Somalia: Lower Shabelle Families Return to Ruins

By :Al Jazeera

23 November 2025

Somali families return to ruins in Lower Shabelle after al-Shabab retreat Families in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle are returning home after al-Shabab’s retreat, only to find their houses destroyed and farms abandoned. Many face severe hardship as they work to rebuild their lives amid limited security and scarce resources. Original posting (with video) Video
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Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803

By :Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)

22 November 2025

Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803 Establishing Joint US-Israel Illegal Occupation of Gaza PALESTINE—On Monday, 17 November 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of Resolution 2803, normalising the colonial occupation of Palestinian territory. This resolution was imposed on the Palestinian people without their consent, constituting a
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Documents (192)

Document Title	Publication Date
الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال	25 October 2025
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe	15 May 2025
في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد	15 May 2025
Reparation Bibliography	06 May 2025
Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya	07 April 2025
Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era	10 March 2025
أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية	10 March 2025
استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)	09 March 2025
Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)	20 February 2025
Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024	27 October 2024
سبل معالجة النزوح الناجم عن تغير المناخ والنزاعات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا- يونيو 2024	27 October 2024
بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون	07 October 2024
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS	23 October 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)	18 September 2022
مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)	18 September 2022
Evolving ETOs	16 June 2022
Gold Extractivism- Sudan	16 June 2022
Joint statement to HRC on CoI Palestine report	13 June 2022
When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	06 May 2022
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان	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
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole	07 January 2022
Climate Justice	25 November 2021
New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen	24 October 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire	18 October 2021
Un derecho humano a la tierra	05 August 2021
حق الإنسان في الأرض	18 June 2021
The Land and Its People:Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa.	01 June 2021
Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid	31 May 2021
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 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
Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid	28 January 2021
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة	11 December 2020
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 December 2020
Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip	10 November 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
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 October 2020
House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region	25 September 2020
Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid	16 September 2020
Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid	01 September 2020
Patterns of Crime against Land & Housing amid COVID	12 August 2020
Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya	16 July 2020
لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير	13 July 2020
Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond	13 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues	22 March 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
“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”	15 November 2019
Land Inequality Framing Document	30 October 2019
What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara	19 September 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
الوثيقة الدستورية للفترة الانتقالية	13 June 2019
Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!	30 April 2019
Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18	30 April 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Transmission letter to Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 December 2018
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen	22 November 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
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
"No hunger on earth as of today"	21 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى	17 November 2017
Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut	17 November 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
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
SDG 6	18 July 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 2017
“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut	24 May 2017
Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017	05 May 2017
الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي	15 March 2017
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition	24 January 2017
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016	31 December 2016
HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334	28 December 2016
بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334	28 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar	23 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 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
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
Sanctuary in the City: Beirut	01 June 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development	22 December 2015
اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1	12 December 2015
Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq	29 November 2015
"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
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments	30 June 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي	24 April 2015
Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”	11 March 2015
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya	01 December 2012
World Social Forum – Tunisia	04 July 2012
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District	24 January 2012
Land Forum III: "Land, People`s Sovereignty and Self-determination"	17 January 2012
The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara	15 June 2010
Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory	01 April 2010
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية	09 March 2010
NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference	05 February 2010
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :	02 February 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 2008
"Neo‐liberalism on crack Cities under siege in Iraq," City, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2007)	21 May 2007
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
Institutionalized Discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon	01 March 2004
“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”	05 May 2003
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1	17 June 2002
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1	17 June 2002
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة	24 October 2001
Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!	06 June 2001
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 1999
Legal Issues arising from Certain Population Transfers and Displacements on the Territory of the Republic of Cyprus in the Period since 20 July 1974	27 June 1999
“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 June 1999
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	17 July 1998
نظام روما الاساسي للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية	17 July 1998
Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa	10 September 1994
وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا	10 September 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين	06 July 1993
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages	16 June 1992
Claire Palley, "Population Transfer and International Law"	12 January 1992
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
S/RES/520 (1982)	17 September 1982
S/RES/501 (1982)	25 February 1982
S/RES/465 (1980)	01 March 1980
Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories	21 April 1978
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
ICJ Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (summary)	16 October 1975
Right to the City in Greater Beirut p	01 January 1970
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Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association	23 December 1956
الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين	28 July 1951
تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)	29 November 1947
UN Charter of the United Nations, adopted 26 June 1945	26 June 1945
ميثاق الأمم المتحدة	26 June 1945

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