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News (10)
“New Gaza” Initiative to Move 2 million Palestinians
By :Ron Ben-Yishai, Y-net News
01 December 2025
Israeli occupation forces [referred to as IDF in this article] try to control the narrative of its genocide in Palestine while a US-backed `New Gaza` pilot in Rafah moves slowly forward. The term “resistance fighters” here replaces the author’s use of the word “terrorists”—HLRN.     US `New Gaza` initiative seeks to move
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Palestine/Israel: Why Target Olive Trees Specifically?
By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh
29 November 2025
The first initiatives to form the Zionist movement began in the mid-19th century, instigated by French and British colonial powers seeking to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Their aim was to control the resources of the Arab region and its surroundings by fragmenting it and creating internal conflicts, thus
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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel
By :OHCHR
28 November 2025
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel   GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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UN SR`s Survey on Land and the Right to Food Now Available
By :OHCHR
12 November 2025
The survey on Land and the Right to Food by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food is now available in English, French, and Spanish. This survey seeks to gather insights and experiences from a wide range of stakeholders — including small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, youth, civil
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Palestinian Olive Harvest: Sumud, Land in Resistance Economy
By :BADIL
31 October 2025
The Palestinian Olive Harvest: Sumud, Land, and a Resisting Economy   The Israeli regime is instrumentalizing the 2025 Palestinian Olive Harvest as a frontline of suppression through organized colonizer attacks and systematic obstruction of Palestinian access to land. While far from a new tactic, the deliberate targeting of the 2025 Olive Harvest
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Sudan: Massacre and Displacement in Darfur, North Kordofan
By :Al Jazeera Staff
29 October 2025
Massacre in el-Fasher: What’s happening in Sudan right now? Rights groups say the RSF paramilitary group committed mass atrocities as it seized the besieged city in North Darfur.     Thousands of people are feared to have been murdered in the western Sudanese city of el-Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, since the paramilitary
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3rd Arab Land Conference Report is Out!
By :The Arab Land Initiative Team, GLTN
23 October 2025
The Final Report is out, and so are all the session recordings and materials! Whether you joined us in person, participated online or couldn’t make it, this is your opportunity to explore the Conference’s key insights on land governance across the Arab region through its most pressing themes, including
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Palestine: Israel Has Destroyed 90% of Gaza’s Agricultural Assets
By :Middle East Monitor (MEMO)
21 October 2025
Palestine accuses Israel of destroying 90% of Gaza’s agricultural assets in 2 years     Palestine accused Israel on Tuesday of destroying more than 90% of Gaza’s agricultural assets over the past two years and harming over 5,353 farmers in the occupied West Bank since the start of this year, Anadolu reports.   The agricultural sector
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Solidarity with Defenders of Palestinian Human Rights
By :Nada Awad, ISHR
22 September 2025
Solidarity statement with Palestinian organisations in the face of Israel’s genocide     We stand in solidarity with Palestinian organisations and human rights defenders worldwide working to uphold international law in the face of Israel’s genocide and colonial apartheid against the Palestinian people. We condemn unlawful threats, restrictions, reprisals and sanctions against individuals,
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US and EU Snactions Have Killed 38 Million in 1970-2021
By :HLRN
17 September 2025
New research published in The Lancet finds that unilateral Western sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970.  The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.    Amid staggering levels of violence, the researcher authors conclude that the system and practice are intolerable and must be replaced.     Read
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Documents (86)

Document Title

Publication Date

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)

09 March 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts

06 September 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food

09 December 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

الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان

24 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara

19 September 2019

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

06 September 2019

Enriched Normative Framework on Right to Food 2018

31 March 2019

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

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

23 April 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

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

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

09 July 2017

تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت

15 June 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

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

نماذج عملية للحق في المدينة، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports

24 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 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

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

03 June 2016

Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)

24 May 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau

19 March 2016

General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women

07 March 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 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

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

18 November 2015

Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region

23 October 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon

01 September 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية لضمان الاستدامة لمصائد الأسماك صغيرة النطاق في سياق الأمن الغذائي والقضاء على الفقر

03 March 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

High Level Expert Forum on Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises Report (September 2012)

14 September 2012

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

24 March 2009

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

24 March 2009

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3

06 June 2008

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7

11 May 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16

11 August 2005

التعليق العام رقم 15، الحق في الماء

20 January 2003

Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14

14 June 1996

“Report on the Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right,” E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/23

07 July 1987

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

الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين

28 July 1951

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