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Hydrogen Pipeline Sparks Outrage in Global Soouth
By :A coalition of 87 civil society organizations and networks
17 March 2025
Hydrogen Pipeline Sparks Outrage EU’s South H2 Corridor Faces Backlash over Environmental and Social Risks   BRUSSELS—A coalition of 87 civil society organizations and networks express their opposition to the South H2 Corridor in a joint statement released today. The construction of the 3,300 km hydrogen pipeline from North Africa to Germany via
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Global Housing Crisis 2025
By :HIC-HLRN
04 February 2025
Ipsos Group S.A., whose name derives from the Latin expression, ipso facto, is a multinational market research and consulting firm headquartered in Paris, has issued its first edition of the Ipsos Housing Monitor. This 30-country study explores people`s perceptions of their own personal housing situation and aspirations, and what they
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The Land and Its People: Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa
By :HIC-HLRN
20 August 2024

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Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern
By :Ali Noureddine, fanack.com
06 March 2023
Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern Current doubts about Iran privatization wave path stem from negative past experiences, lack of transparency and the absence of comprehensive economic plans.     The Iranian government is gearing up to generate 108,000 Iranian tomans in 2023 from the sale of government-owned assets.   In order to facilitate this process, the Iranian authorities have secured
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Kahramanmaraş Quakes: Where is the State?
By :Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal, Bir Gün
12 February 2023
February 6 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes: Where is the state? The Minister of Environment and Urbanization of the country, seventy percent of which lies on an earthquake zone, proudly announced that there have been 10,250,000 applications nationwide for the Construction Amnesty, which had expired on 15 June 2019.   For days, television screens carried the
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UN 2023 Water Conference Preparatory Meeting
By :UN
17 October 2022
The Preparatory Meeting to the UN 2023 Water Conference, will be held on the 25 October 2022 at the UN HQ, in New York. The aim is to finalize the themes of the interactive dialogues and other outstanding organizational matters of the UN 2023 Water Conference. Details are available here,
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Women Resist UN Corporate Capture
By :Women;s Major Group
24 September 2022
“Bigger than BlackRock: Challenging UN Corporate Partnerships” Feminist economic justice must outweigh investment profits for UN Women   On 23 August 2022, the feminists behind #BlockBlackRock met with UN Women representatives to express concerns about the announced partnership with the world’s largest investment firm, BlackRock, and with the broader approach to corporate partnerships.   During
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Gold Extractivism- Sudan
By :Ahmed Mansour Ismail
16 June 2022

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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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MENA Civil Society Assesses SDG Progress
By :HIC-HLRN
16 March 2022
HIC-HLRN participated with Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) in the “Regional CSO Forum on Sustainable Development,” on 13–14 March 2022 at Beirut, Lebanon. The gathering of diverse policy analysts representing the Middle East/North Africa region’s civil society covered the range of contemporary development issues represented in the Sustainable-development Goals
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Documents (21)

Document Title

Publication Date

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

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

18 November 2015

The private modes of water capture in Lebanon

01 September 2015

Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector

01 September 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

A Função Social da Propriedade

01 November 2001

A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade

01 March 2000

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

Land. That’s What Habitat Was About

23 June 1976

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