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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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XLV° Tafsut Imazighen / 45th Amazigh Spring
By :Akal Presse
20 April 2025
XLV° Tafsut Imazighen / 45th Amazigh Spring     Tafsut Imazighen – the Amazigh Spring – is one of the most significant moments in the long struggle of the Amazighs to restore their historic rights in their country.   It emerged following the great popular uprising of the Kabyles in Algeria, which began on April 20,
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Upcoming UNPFII Session Focuses on Restorative Justice
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2025
In February 2025, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) presented its thematic reports for the upcoming 24th session 21 April–5 May 2025.   “Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peacebuilding” (E/C.19/2025/7). The document, authored by Hanieh Moghani, Hannah McGlade and Geoffrey Roth, presents
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OHCHR Report: Human Rights Impacts of Israeli Settler Colonies and Annexation in West Bank
By :OHCHR
18 March 2025
Israel ramps up settlement and annexation in West Bank with dire human rights consequences     GENEVA—The Government of Israel last year ratcheted up settlement of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, transferring its own population into the territory and unlawfully demolishing Palestinian homes, while settler violence increased in a climate of
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Egypt Unveils $53 billion Plan to Rebuild Gaza
By :Le Monde with AFP, and Egyptian Streets
05 March 2025
Egypt unveils $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza as alternative to Trump`s proposal The reconstruction plan places Gaza under Palestinian Authority control while sidelining Hamas, with security forces trained in Egypt and Jordan to maintain order.     Egypt has proposed a $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza over five years, focusing on
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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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Finally out! Multi-agency HLP Restitution Handbook for Middle East/North Africa
By :HIC-HLRN
26 February 2025
Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Middle East and North Africa At this 20th anniversary of the Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the Pinheiro Principles), an inter-agency consortium has published the advanced version of the handbook for
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Revealed: Gaza Municipalities` 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
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Documents (76)

Document Title

Publication Date

The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights

09 August 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

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

09 August 2024

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)

18 September 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

Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021

30 August 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان

24 February 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

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020

25 September 2020

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

16 September 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

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Transmission letter to Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

17 January 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 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

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 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

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Indigenous People

21 July 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

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

18 November 2015

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

21 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 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

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments

30 June 2015

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

15 May 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 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

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :

02 February 2010

Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2

24 March 2009

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

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 2003

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

05 September 2000

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

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

La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

06 June 1986

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1

31 December 1967

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