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Syria: The Day After Statements on State Building
By :The Day After
27 March 2025
Current reporting from The Day After (TDA) reflects the challenges of state building in Syria, including needed remedies for the millions of displaced persons and restitution of millions of homes destroyed and stripped down appropriated by the Asad government agents and cronies. Read TDA’s statement below with links to the
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Explaining Egypt`s Gaza Reconstruction Plan
By :Ahram Online
05 March 2025
Explainer: Everything you need to know about Egypt`s Gaza reconstruction plan Egypt has developed a comprehensive reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, which is counter to US President Donald Trump`s Gaza plan to take over Gaza and displace its Palestinian population.     Ahram Online obtained a draft of Egypt`s reconstruction plan for Gaza.
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan
24 April 2022
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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Demolitions in Jeddah turn residents into `strangers`
By :AFP
22 April 2022
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – The Saudi doctor still had 15 years left on the loan he used to build his family`s "dream" home in Jeddah when bulldozers razed it to the ground, turning his life into "hell". The operation was part of a $20-billion clearance and construction project that stands
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA
By :Joseph Schechla
24 March 2022
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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Egypt’s ‘Best Practice’ toward 2030 SDGs
By :World Bank
07 September 2021
UN Lists Upper Egypt Local Development Program as a Best Practice to Achieving Results Towards 2030 SDGs     Story Highlights   The Upper Egypt Local Development Program is strengthening the capacity of local government to deliver quality infrastructure and services and improve the environment for private sector development and job creation in four governorates. The
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Gazan Entrepreneur Finds Hope in Hardship
By :Rory Quick, MEMO
23 April 2019
The young founder of two innovative projects believes that the Gaza Strip needs entrepreneurs and innovators who fight daily challenges.     GAZA CITY—Talking to Majd Mashharawi in Amman’s Books@Cafe, it is clear that she is used to making difficult decisions. She explains that when she was 18, her father gave her a choice: Either
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory
By :HIC-HLRN
10 July 2017

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NUA Reporting in 2018 Crucial
By :Gregory Scruggs, Citiscope
11 May 2017
2018 reporting period will prove critical for New Urban Agenda, advocates say         Labels NAIROBI—Although 2017 is not yet halfway over, advocates for the New Urban Agenda on sustainable cities already are looking to next year as critical for embedding the agreement aims among national governments.   That’s because the recent Habitat III conference set
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New Urban Agenda, A/71/L.23
By :UN General Assembly
21 November 2016

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Documents (22)

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Publication Date

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016

28 July 2016

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

24 July 2016

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

21 October 2015

Reporte National de México para Hábitat III

20 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 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

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

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

24 March 2009

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

05 September 2000

Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda

30 June 1996

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

14 June 1996

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

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

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

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