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Extraterritorial obligations
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News (10)
Message to the 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
By :various organizations
21 April 2026
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels aims to advance collective efforts to phase out fossil fuels. The conference will identify legal, economic, and social pathways to phase out fossil fuels.   The conference will take place from 28-29 April, and will comprise plenary and parallel thematic sessions with high-level
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Lebanon`s Territory and Sea under Israeli Control
By :Maayan Lubell, Reuters
19 April 2026
Israeli military publishes map of south Lebanon territory under its control     JERUSALEM—The Israeli military published for the first time a map of its new deployment line inside Lebanon on Sunday, bringing dozens of mostly abandoned Lebanese villages under its control, ​days after a ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect.   There was no immediate comment from
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NZ Court: Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in occupied Palestine and Syria Unlawful
By :Keiller MacDuff, RNZ
16 April 2026
$86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights, court rules This week, an Aotearoa/New Zealand court ruled that investments made by the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund — investments in companies complicit in occupied Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan — are unlawful.     The managers of the country`s $86 billion Super
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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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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
05 April 2026
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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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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West Bank, Palestine: Special Rapporteur Warns of Mass Ethnic Cleansing
By :OHCHR
18 March 2026
‘Tragedy foretold and stain on our collective humanity’: Special Rapporteur warns of mass ethnic cleansing in the West Bank     GENEVA—Palestinians face serious risk of mass ethnic cleansing as Israel advances its long-held plan to take Palestinian lands and evacuate them of Palestinians under the fog of war, a UN expert warned
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Campaign of Falsehood to Silence Francesca Albanese on Gaza Genocide
By :Kurniawan Arif Maspul, Middle East Monitor
16 February 2026
Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide     Francesca Albanese has become one of the most polarising figures in contemporary diplomacy, not because she commands armies or signs treaties, but because she insists on describing what she sees. Since assuming her mandate as
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The U.S. Plan for Gaza Has Nothing in It for Palestinians
By :Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss
28 January 2026
The U.S. plan for Gaza has nothing in it for Palestinians The U.S. plan for Gaza envisions a Gaza for investors, not Palestinians.     The latest iteration of the future U.S. plan for Gaza was revealed last week by U.S. President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the inaugural ceremony of the so-called “Board
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HIC-MENA Supports HIC-AL’s Position on the U.S. Invasion, Abduction in Venezuela
By :HIC-MENA
11 January 2026
HIC Supports HIC-AL’s Statement on the U.S. Military Intervention in Venezuela     From the General Secretariat of the International Habitat Coalition (HIC), we express our full support for the statement issued by HIC-AL regarding the military intervention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We share their commitment to defending human rights related to habitat, peace,
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Documents (101)

Document Title

Publication Date

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

Reparations Bibliography

06 May 2025

أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية

10 March 2025

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 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

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

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

16 September 2020

Patterns of Crime against Land & Housing amid COVID

12 August 2020

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

29 April 2020

Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues

22 March 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

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

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

06 September 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

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

30 April 2019

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

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

23 April 2018

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System

21 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities

23 June 2017

الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي

15 March 2017

The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition

24 January 2017

بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334

28 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)

23 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar

23 December 2016

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

28 October 2016

مقدمة عن مشروع لبنان وورش العمل

17 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda

19 July 2016

HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft

28 June 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21

04 December 2015

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

21 October 2015

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

21 October 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 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

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

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

15 June 2015

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Renaissance Dam Agreement on Declaration of Principles

23 March 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

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

15 November 2014

Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory

01 April 2010

NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference

05 February 2010

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life

16 May 2006

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)

20 June 2005

المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)

10 August 2001

Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2

11 June 2001

Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2

09 June 2001

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

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

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

17 July 1998

نظام روما الاساسي للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية

17 July 1998

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

21 May 1997

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

14 June 1996

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة

27 June 1989

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

14 December 1984

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146

16 December 1982

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146

16 December 1982

S/RES/465 (1980)

01 March 1980

Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories

21 April 1978

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

الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الانسان

10 December 1948

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