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Sri Lanka: “agricultural advisers” Exposed as Civil War Agents Provocateurs
By :Eitay Mack, The Wire
15 April 2026
Declassified Documents Detail Israel’s Role at the Start of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Recently declassified Israeli archives reveal that in the 1980s, Israel secretly supplied Sri Lanka with millions in weapons, military training disguised as agricultural advice, and even campaign support, despite documented human rights abuses and doubts about a military
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Returning Forced Evictions to the Development Agenda
By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN
10 April 2026
  Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due to political, technical, and institutional
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Israel Secretly Approves 34 New West Bank Colonies
By :Jeremy Sharon. The Times of Isael
09 April 2026
Government approves a record 34 new settlements, as it acts to deepen hold on West Bank Security cabinet decision constitutes largest number of settlements okayed by any government at one time, brings total number approved by current government to 103     The security cabinet approved the establishment of 34 new West Bank settlements
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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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International Women’s Day: Palestinian Women’s Inspiring Resistance
By :BDS National Committee
08 March 2026
International Women’s Day: The Inspiring Resistance of Palestinian Women   On 8 March, the reality of Palestinian women cannot be separated from their tireless resistance to colonial violence and ongoing genocide — which demolishes their homes, threatens their land and throws them in prison cells. Women also carry most of the burden of caring
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Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid
By :HIC-HLRN
24 January 2026

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Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid
By :Regularly updated compilation of published references on Israel`s apartheid in Palestine
24 January 2026

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Dystopian Trump/Kushner Development Scheme for Gaza
By :Maira Butt
22 January 2026
Trump releases bizarre plans for ‘New Gaza’ featuring luxury apartments and coastal tourism   The Trump administration has unveiled bizarre new pictures for a “new Gaza”, featuring a data centre, luxury apartments and “coastal tourism”.   Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, unveiled the images during a press conference at the Davos signing of the
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Israel Demolitions & Displacement in Palestine – December 2025
By :Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
15 January 2026
Demolitions & Displacement in the occupied West Bank and within the state of Israel - December 2025 Report   On 22 December, when people were already involved in Christmas celebrations, the world was torn apart for 100 Palestinians when Israeli authorities demolished a four-story building in Wadi Qadum, a neighborhood in Silwan,
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Documents (79)

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

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

Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

06 January 2023

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 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

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 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

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip

10 November 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 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

لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير

13 July 2020

Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court

29 April 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 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

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

30 April 2019

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

17 January 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine

23 August 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

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 2017

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016

31 December 2016

“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

19 December 2016

The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

28 October 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments

30 June 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

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

24 March 2009

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

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

02 October 2007

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1

17 June 2002

House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem

14 February 2002

Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development

24 October 2001

Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!

06 June 2001

“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

”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

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

14 June 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين

06 July 1993

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123

14 December 1984

“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

The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law

01 January 1964

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

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