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News (10)
The War on Yemen’s Antiquities
By :Mohammed Ali Thamer, The Yemen Review Quarterly, January–March 2026
24 April 2026
Yemen’s antiquities have endured centuries of looting, smuggling, and trafficking, rooted in a consistent pattern of colonial exploitation that dates back to the 19th century. In his travel memoir Vision of Yemen, Yemeni-Jewish scholar Hayyim Habshush captured Western orientalists’ fascination with Yemeni cultural and archeological wealth, drawing on his experience accompanying
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Israel Razing Entire Cities in Lebanon
By :Sprinter Press Agency
20 April 2026
The current situation in the almost completely destroyed by Israel city of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, where about 30,000 people still lived at the beginning of the year.   Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, where about 30,000 people still lived at the beginning of the year. The videos below show the city
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Lebanon: A Million Displaced, a System Broken
By :Maysa Baroud, Middle East Council on Global Affairs
08 April 2026
In Lebanon, a New Wave of Displacement Exposes a Broken System  A new flood of displaced people in Lebanon faces shrinking access to shelter, protection, and the possibility of return. Their plight reflects not only Israeli policy, but systemic failure at both the national and international levels.       More than one million people have been displaced across
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Now available: Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 34
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2026
Now available: The latest issue of Land Timesأحوال الأرض/  No. 34 bears witness to the rupture of our present-day, it also seeks to be part of the remedy.   Find a summary of the contents in the editorial [AR], with a critical review of new and contentious terms in the “Terminology Corner,”
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“My Land is the Freedom I will Never Compromise” 50th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day
By :Waed Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
30 March 2026
“My land is my soul, my identity, my home,” this was Umm Rafiq’s response, a farmer from Sinjil currently facing vicious settler violence and depopulation attempts, when we asked her what her land meant to her.    Today marks the 50th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day. Despite the ongoing horrors by Israel and its allies, whether the Israeli
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Day of the Landless 2026
By :Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) et al.
29 March 2026
Defend Our Land and Territories! Forge a Future Free from Imperialist Control! Statement for the Day of the Landless 2026     We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society organizations - unite our voices and struggles
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Israel Has Destroyed > 93% of Gaza Cemeteries amid Genocide
By :Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
15 March 2026
Israel systematically destroyed over 93 per cent of Gaza Strip cemeteries amid ongoing genocide     Palestinian Territory – Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented that the Israeli army has destroyed 93.5 per cent of cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, either completely or partially, in the context of the ongoing genocide since October 2023.   The
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Over 3 million Displaced Iranians So Far
By :Sam McNeil and Serra Yedikardes, The Associated Press
14 March 2026
More than 3 million Iranians have been displaced so far since the war started, setting up a potential migration crisis     After bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan, hairdresser Merve Pourkaz decided to leave.   Pourkaz, 32, said she traveled nearly 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) to an alpine
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The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA
By :Palestine Refugee Policy Forum, Policy Brief 6
01 March 2026

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Israeli Measures on Occupied West Bank Ease Theft of Palestinian Property
By :Aysar Alais and Rania Abushamala, Anadolu Acensi
09 February 2026
Israeli measures on occupied West Bank ‘dangerous, violation of international law’: Palestinian official     ‘Israeli decisions are an attempt to systematically change the geographical nature of the Palestinian land,’ Amir Dawood tells Anadolu   RAMALLAH, Palestine—A Palestinian official on Monday called recent Israeli decisions aimed at changing the legal and civil status in the
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Documents (80)

Document Title

Publication Date

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

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

09 August 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

30 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparations 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

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

Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa

10 February 2021

Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique

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

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

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

Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)

11 March 2005

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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