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Israeli War on Iran: Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed
By :Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages
14 June 2025
Israeli War on Iran: Jewish Nationals’ Wartime Shelter, Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed Tonight, in the Palestinian “unrecognized villages” of the Naqab, hundreds of families are sleeping in fear, with no shelter to protect them from the missiles above.   They are taking refuge in school buildings.   Some are sleeping under the open sky.   Others,
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Canada: JNF Loses Final Appeal, “Charity” No More
By :L`Orient Today
09 June 2025
Canadian Jewish National Fund loses final appeal to regain revoked charitable status JNF Canada was found to have funded infrastructure projects for the Israeli military, which violates Canadian law prohibiting charities from supporting foreign militaries.      The Canadian branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) officially lost its "registered charity" status after a
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5 June 1967 Anniversary amid Israel`s Consistent Violation of International Law
By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh, Land Research Center
05 June 2025
Introduction   The Israeli occupation state has emerged through repeated initiatives by colonial powers seeking political and economic control over the Arab region (West Asia and North Africa). In 1799, after the defeat of his armies at the walls of Acre and their failure to occupy Palestine and the Levant, the French
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On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
15 May 2025

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Israel Seizes Control of West Bank`s Area C Land Registry, Cementing Annexation
By :Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin, Middle East Eye
12 May 2025
Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank`s Area C, cementing annexation Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank     Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in Area C of the
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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza
By :Architects for Gaza/TRT
26 April 2025
Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza     War is not only fought with weapons; it is also waged through space. Gaza’s destruction is more than just rubble; it’s an assault on a people’s ability to exist, rebuild and return. “Architecture can be a form of resistance,” says Adam Khan, a volunteer architect
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Egypt Unveils $53 billion Plan to Rebuild Gaza
By :Le Monde with AFP, and Egyptian Streets
05 March 2025
Egypt unveils $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza as alternative to Trump`s proposal The reconstruction plan places Gaza under Palestinian Authority control while sidelining Hamas, with security forces trained in Egypt and Jordan to maintain order.     Egypt has proposed a $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza over five years, focusing on
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Gaza Reconstruction Principles: It Must Be Palestinian Led
05 March 2025
Gaza Reconstruction Must Be Palestinian Led—Breaking the Cycle of Destruction     The signatories of this position—groups and organizations representing a broad swath of Palestinian civil society in Palestine and in exile—stand firmly by key principles and demands that must guide Gaza’s reconstruction and recovery, as well as Palestine’s broader future. This process
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Documents (39)

Document Title

Publication Date

On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe

15 May 2025

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 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

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

"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

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

29 April 2020

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

23 April 2018

The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development

22 December 2015

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Guide on the Right to the City

21 July 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 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

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

“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

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

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

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

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