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Western Sahara: Demolition of Homes and Attacks on Sahrawi Elders in Occupied Laayoune and Suburbs
By :Mizrat News Network
28 April 2025
Demolition of Homes and Horrific Attacks on Sahrawi Elders in Occupied Laayoune and Suburbs   The Committee on Settlements, the Military Partition Wall, and Mines of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders in Western Sahara (CODESA) is following with grave concern the repeated and serious attacks carried out by the Moroccan
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Gaza Strip `Uninhabitable` Due to Undetonated Explosives
By :The Jerusalem Post/Reuters
18 April 2025
Gaza Strip `uninhabitable` due to undetonated explosives, UN says The UN Mine Action Service estimates that between one in 10 and one in 20 Israeli bombs fired into Gaza did not detonate.     KHAN YUNIS—The Gaza Strip is strewn with undetonated explosives from tens of thousands of Israeli airstrikes, leaving the territory “uninhabitable,”
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How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
By :HIC-HLRN
01 April 2025

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49th Palestinian National Day of the Land: An Accounting of Israel’s Land Theft in 2024
By :HIC-HLRN & PCBS
28 March 2025
In a statement in commemoration of the 49th Palestinian National Day of the Land (30 March), Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Director Dr. Ola Awad has detailed the mechanisms of this large-scale land grab, saying Israel issued military orders and other acquisition orders to take control of Palestinian territory.
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Israeli Settlers Commit over 5,350 Violations in Occupied West Bank since 2015
By :TRT World & Agencies
21 March 2025
Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in occupied West Bank in past decade: Report The report details a wide range of illegal settler violations, including stone-throwing at Palestinians, their homes, and vehicles, as well as arson attacks targeting houses, businesses, farms, and other private properties.     Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in
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Israel’s West Bank Outposts Proliferate since 7 October 2023, Palestinians Fear Annexation
By :Allegra Goodwin, Nada Bashir and Gianluca Mezzofiore, with contributions by Kareem Khadder/CNN
20 March 2025
Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next       BARDALA, West Bank—Jihad Suleiman al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, al-Sawafta said
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Syria IDP and Returnee Overview
By :UNHCR
15 March 2025
Syria governorates IDPs and IDP returnee`s overview 15 March 2025   In Syria, an estimated 7.4 million individuals remain internally displaced (IDPs), residing both within communities and in IDP sites.   Of the total IDP population, 5.2 million are estimated to be living outside IDP sites, while 2.1 million reside in 1,736 IDP sites,
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Gaza Conditions ‘Unimaginable’ after 15 Months
By :Lorenzo Tondo and Malak A Tantesh, The Guardian
13 January 2025
Fifteen months of Israeli bombardment leave conditions in Gaza ‘unimaginable’ As hopes of a ceasefire grow, hunger and cold are adding to the suffering for the millions of Palestinians in the strip     Fifteen months into the war in Gaza, where more than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed and almost all of the population
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Housing Hardest Hit Sector in Lebanon, Israel Targeted 100,000 Units
By :World Bank
14 November 2024
New World Bank Report Assesses Impact of Conflict on Lebanon’s Economy and Key Sectors Damages & Losses estimated at US$8.5 billion   WASHINGTON—The cost of physical damages and economic losses due to the conflict in Lebanon is estimated at US$8.5 billion, according to a new World Bank report that provides an initial assessment
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Documents (34)

Document Title

Publication Date

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV

07 September 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen

24 October 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

24 October 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

24 October 2021

Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021

30 August 2021

التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن

28 January 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

28 January 2021

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 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

Commentary on the High Level Independent Panel`s Report to Assess and Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat (summary)

05 September 2017

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Saudi Arabia, A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 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

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation: Mission to Jordan

05 August 2014

Abu Ghalib Village Reparations

16 March 2014

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik, Mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, A/HRC/22/4

24 December 2012

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1

17 June 2002

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

تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة

14 February 2002

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

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