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Israeli Cabinet Dispossesses Palestinians from Area C Lands
By :Peace Now
12 May 2025
The Cabinet Decides to Initiate Land Registration Process that would Dispossess Palestinians from their Lands the West Bank Update from 14/5/25: The State attached the text of the cabinet decision to a request it submitted to the court. The cabinet decision could be found here.   On Sunday, 11/5/25, the Security Cabinet decided to initiate land registration
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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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Another Illegitimate Gaza-reconstruction Plan
By :Tal Schneider, The New Arab
07 February 2025
The man with the plan: DC prof sent Trump study on Gaza relocation, development in July George Washington University economics professor Joseph Pelzman wrote detailed proposal for Trump’s team; says ‘you have to destroy the whole place, restart from scratch’     US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinians and then redevelop
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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
20 June 2024
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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Israeli Settlers Suffocating Palestinian Shepherds with Land Theft
By :Al Mayadeen English, The Guardian and Haaretz
19 May 2024
Israeli settlers suffocating Palestinian shepherds with land theft Settler intimidation has caused 18 pastoral groups to leave their homes in the Jordan Valley, according to data released by the Israeli B`Tselem in March.   Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are reporting an increase in land theft by armed Israeli settlers who are
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New Report: Counting Costs, Losses & Damage
By :HIC-HLRN
18 February 2024
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) Counting Costs, Loss & Damage: Quantifying Impacts of Habitat-related Human Rights Violations amid Environmental Hazards and Climate-change selects cases of housing and land rights violations from HLRN’s 2022 report, In Pursuit of Climate Justice, to focus
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New Report: Counting Costs, Loss & Damage
By :HIC-HLRN
16 February 2024
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this newreport from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) Counting Costs, Loss & Damage: Quantifying Impacts of Habitat-related Human Rights Violations amid Environmental Hazards and Climate-change selects cases of housing and land rights violations from HLRN’s 2022 report, In Pursuit of Climate Justice, to focus
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How Israel Is Deliberately Making Gaza Uninhabitable
By :Hebh Jamal, The New Arab
30 November 2023
How Israel`s war is deliberately making Gaza uninhabitable In-depth: Israel`s war on Gaza has seen one of the most intense air campaigns since World War Two, razing entire neighbourhoods to the ground, killing thousands, and causing damage that could take decades to repair.     After nearly six weeks of nonstop bombardment on the densely populated
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Libya: Human Factors in Derna’s Tragedy
By :HIC-HLRN
16 September 2023
The people of Libya’s coastal town of Derna are still collecting the dead from under mud flows and washing up on the shore. Their numbers are likely to rise into the tens of thousands. A total of 891 buildings were destroyed; 211 buildings were partially damaged, and 398 others were
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Documents (69)

Document Title

Publication Date

La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits

09 August 2024

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 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

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 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

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır

19 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016

09 April 2016

Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III

02 February 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

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

18 November 2015

“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49

07 August 2015

دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49

07 August 2015

تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270

04 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

دليل للحق في المدينة

21 July 2015

HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report

15 June 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire

15 November 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles

11 July 2013

Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop

30 September 2011

Gwangju Declaration on Human Right City

17 May 2011

Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City

01 July 2010

السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث

22 May 2010

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

02 October 2007

Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

21 November 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar

31 December 2001

A Função Social da Propriedade

01 November 2001

قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)

10 September 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade

01 March 2000

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 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

Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, done in London, on 17 June 1999.

17 June 1999

Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, New York, 21 May 1997.

21 May 1997

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

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

"إعلان ريو بشأن البيئة والتنمية"، "جدول أعمال القرن 21،" تقرير الأمم المتحدة المعني بالبيئة والتنمية، A / CONF.151 / 26 (المجلد الأول)

12 August 1992

الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة

27 June 1989

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)

01 June 1967

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