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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

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Learning from Morocco’s Climate Action Finance
11 May 2025
Climate change in Morocco is expected to significantly impact the country on many levels, as it does for other countries in the MENA region. As a coastal country with a hot and dry climate, the environmental impacts are likely to be broad and diverse.   The impact of these environmental changes on
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Palestine/Israel: Wild Fire Plague on Stolen Lands, Zionism in Flames
By :Ronnie Kasrils, Palestine Chronicle
02 May 2025
Fires Ablaze in a Stolen Land: A Failing Zionist Project in Flames [commentary]   The genocidal apartheid state requests the West for help to fight the fires, whilst, without any scruples whatsoever, its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.   The forests that cover the demolished Palestinian villages of the 1948 Nakba are
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Iraq: Erbil`s Water Shortage Crisis
By :Winthrop Rodgers
29 April 2025
Erbil`s water shortage crisis: Iraqi Kurdistan`s capital city grapples with drought and climate change ahead of a scorching summer As Erbil braces for another scorching summer, the city’s water supply is running low, leaving residents desperate for solutions amid a worsening drought   April skies over Erbil are often dark, dusty, and unsettled.
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya
By :HIC-HLRN
07 April 2025
Today, HIC-HLRN has contributed its stakeholder submission to the UN Human Rights Council for the 4th round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Libya. The submission poses questions and recommendations for Libya to ensure “effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official
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Call for abstracts: Climate Change and Futures in Africa Conference Series
By :Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
01 April 2025
Climate change is fraught with contradictions and inconsistencies, particularly in the institutionalization and dissemination of climate change knowledge, which the Global North predominantly controls. Meanwhile, the Global South bears the brunt of its impacts, with limited resources for mitigation and adaptation and negligible support from the developed nations. Although climate
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How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
By :HIC-HLRN
01 April 2025

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How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
27 March 2025

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The Bezos Earth Fund and Multistakeholderism
By :Ever Sustainable
19 March 2025
What the Bezos Earth Fund tells us about stakeholder influence     The world’s richest man has made one of the largest single endowments in history – £10 billion of his personal fortune to combat climate change.   And while Jeff Bezos has been notoriously sluggish in comparison to some of his more philanthropic peers,
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Documents (71)

Document Title

Publication Date

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

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 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

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change

22 August 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Climate Finance in Egypt (table)

10 March 2023

Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food

09 December 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV

07 September 2022

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 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

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

Joint Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Procedures on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory

10 November 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

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

20 November 2018

SDG Land Indicators presentation

27 April 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 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

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

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

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

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

19 July 2016

The Future We Want – The United Nations We Need

16 June 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

The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21

04 December 2015

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

18 November 2015

Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region

23 October 2015

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

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

24 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن

05 August 2014

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)

10 August 2001

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

05 September 2000

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14

14 June 1996

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

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

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

16 June 1992

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

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