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News (10)
Israel/Palestine: Court Cancels Threat to Displace Ras Jrabah Naqab Village
By :Adalah
25 June 2025
Be’er Sheva District Court Cancels Approval of Plan to Expand Dimona that Threatens to Displace Bedouin Village of Ras Jrabah and Its 500 Residents   The court accepted two separate petitions: one filed by Adalah on behalf of Bimkom and the residents of Ras Jrabah, and another by the Society for the
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The “Arab Belt” Project in Syria: 51 Years of Structural Discrimination and Denial of Justice
By :hevdesti.org
24 June 2025
A Facts Sheet Marking the Passage of 51 Years Since the Launch of the Discriminatory Project on June 24, 1974. On this day, June 24, 1974, the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party issued Decision No. 521, officially launching what became known as the “Arab Belt” Project—one of the
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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
By :OHCHR
22 June 2025
Purpose: To inform the report to be presented to the General Assembly in October 2025 for the 80th Session (UNGA80). Background The groundbreaking Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem by the International
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First Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress, Vienna
By :HIC-HLRN
17 June 2025
As the world bears witness to the Western state governments indulge Israel`s genocide against the Palestinian people, activists of Jewish faith and background concluded their first Anti-Zionism Congress in Vienna, 13­­­–16 June 2025. It met at the very crux of the matter.   The host city of Vienna was symbolic also as
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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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Under Siege: Urban Development in Egypt’s Warraq Island
By :Ibrahim Ezzeldin, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
04 June 2025
In the heart of Greater Cairo, residents of the Nile island of Warraq are fighting against a government-backed urban development scheme. “These are not images of Manhattan Island!” With this statement, the State Information Service, the Egyptian government’s media arm, showcased the new development plan of Warraq, the country’s largest island on
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HIC-wide Inputs to UN Special Rapporteur Study on Land and Housing Rights
By :HIC-HLRN
03 June 2025
In response to a call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal, HIC Members and structures have provided six important inputs to the SR’s study on land and the right to housing. You can find these inputs at the following links: HLRN Global: “Land and the right to
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria
By :HIC-HLRN, Together for the Protection of the Human and the Environment (Iraq), Insight (Syria), Dibeen Association for Environmental Development (Jordan)
30 May 2025

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Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil
By :Catalytic Communities (Brazil)
30 May 2025

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Israel Expelling 100s of Indigenous Palestinian Citizens
By :Adalah
28 May 2025
Adalah: This is an unprecedented act of state violence against Palestinian citizens and their very existence in Israel.       Today, 28 May 2025, the Israeli government announced that it would begin deporting Palestinian citizens of Israel, in an alarming and unprecedented escalation in Israel’s campaign of racial persecution.   According to media outlets,
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Documents (299)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil

30 May 2025

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

15 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)

22 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era

10 March 2025

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

09 March 2025

Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024

27 October 2024

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change

22 August 2023

General comment No. 26 (2022) on land and economic, social and cultural rights*

24 January 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

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS

23 October 2022

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (جبر الضرر)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)

19 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)

19 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)

18 September 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

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on women`s political leadership

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

06 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

Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW

20 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 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

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

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

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

The GLTN Approach to Land

24 February 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان

24 February 2021

Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa

10 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 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

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19

05 October 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 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

Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid

01 September 2020

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

30 July 2020

The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights

20 July 2020

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

29 April 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues

22 March 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 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

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

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

WLH Kampala Workshop Report

14 May 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

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

30 April 2019

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

17 January 2019

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

17 January 2019

Nuremberg judgments

10 December 2018

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen

22 November 2018

Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas

20 November 2018

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Campesinos y de Otras Personas que Trabajan en las Zonas Rurales

20 November 2018

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales

20 November 2018

Process from Problem to Solution (graphic)

12 November 2018

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2018

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

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

Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

26 January 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine

23 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Human rights in cities and other human settlements, A/HRC/35/L.30/Rev.1

23 June 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

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 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

المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة

23 January 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

HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334

28 December 2016

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

برنامج ورشة العمل الأولى لمشروع الملجأ في المدينة،بيروت

21 December 2016

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)

20 December 2016

الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى

20 December 2016

دور البلديات والممارسات المحلية في تطبيق ميثاق الحق في المدينة

20 December 2016

دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان

20 December 2016

مبادئ حقوق الإنسان وتطبيق الحق في المدينة في لبنان

20 December 2016

“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

19 December 2016

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), A/CONF.226/4

29 September 2016

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

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

Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III

28 June 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

01 June 2016

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

07 March 2016

التوصية العامة رقم 34 بشأن حقوق المرأة الريفية

07 March 2016

Recommandation générale No 34 sur les droits des femmes rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

Recomendación general núm. 34 (2016) sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

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

18 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 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

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

Rôle des administrations locales dans la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme, A/HRC/30/49

07 August 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

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, A/70/270

04 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Guide on the Right to the City

21 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments

30 June 2015

"Toward a Global Alliance of Human Rights Cities for All II," Gwangju

17 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Renaissance Dam Agreement on Declaration of Principles

23 March 2015

Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”

11 March 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2014

Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”

01 September 2014

تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن

05 August 2014

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

05 August 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, A/HRC/25/54

30 December 2013

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

12 August 2013

The promotion of human rights of the urban poor: strategies and best practices

31 December 2012

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

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara

15 June 2010

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

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference

05 February 2010

Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :

02 February 2010

Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)

28 December 2009

إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا

03 July 2009

Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa

03 July 2009

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

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

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

06 June 2008

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

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

26 August 2007

Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 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

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19

15 June 2006

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

11 May 2006

Principes fondamentaux et directives concernant le droit à un recours et à réparation des victimes de violations flagrantes du droit international des droits de l’homme et de violations graves du droit international humanitaire, A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations, A/RES/60/147

21 March 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

Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)

11 March 2005

Prohibition of forced evictions, 2004/28

16 April 2004

Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28

16 April 2004

Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28

16 April 2004

Prohibition of forced evictions, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28

16 April 2004

حظر الإخلاء القسري، 2004/28

16 April 2004

التعليق العام رقم 31، طبيعة الالتزام القانوني العام المفروض على الدول الأطراف في العهد

29 March 2004

Institutionalized Discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon

01 March 2004

التعليق العام رقم 15، الحق في الماء

20 January 2003

General Comment No. 15 (2002), The right to water

20 January 2003

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

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

01 January 2002

A Função Social da Propriedade

01 November 2001

قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)

10 September 2001

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

10 August 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

Statement before the special Plenary Session on NGO participation, Habitat II+5 Second Preparatory Committee

21 February 2001

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade

01 March 2000

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 1999

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

“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

”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 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

مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

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

21 May 1997

اتفاقية قانون استخدام المجاري المائية الدولية في الأغراض غير الملاحية

21 May 1997

اللجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 7 "حالة إخلاء المساكن بالإكراه"

20 May 1997

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 7, The right to housing: "forced evictions"

20 May 1997

Observation générale No 7, Le droit à un logement suffisant (Art. 11 1) du Pacte) : expulsions forcées

20 May 1997

Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

26 January 1997

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

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

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

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

14 October 1994

The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa

10 September 1994

وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا

10 September 1994

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

Christopher M. Goebel, “A Unified Concept of Population Transfer”

01 October 1993

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين

06 July 1993

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/77 "forced evictions"

10 March 1993

Expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77

10 March 1993

Desalojamientos forzosos, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77

10 March 1993

Forced Eviction E/CN.4/1993/77

10 March 1993

Claire Palley, "Population Transfer and International Law"

12 January 1992

لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"

13 December 1991

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4 "The right to housing"

13 December 1991

Comité de los derechos economicos, sociales y culturales, Observación general Nº 4, El derecho a una vivienda adecuada

13 December 1991

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

The Convention on The Right of The Child, Adopted 20 November 1989.

20 November 1989

اتفاقية حقوق الطفل

20 November 1989

الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة

27 June 1989

Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

06 June 1986

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/501 (1982)

25 February 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

ICJ Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (summary)

16 October 1975

Flood Control & Marine Pollution of Continental Origin, Institute of International Law, 55th Conference

17 August 1972

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted 16 December 1966.

16 December 1966

The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law

01 January 1964

Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association

23 December 1956

الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين

28 July 1951

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

UN Charter of the United Nations, adopted 26 June 1945

26 June 1945

Regulation Governing Navigation on International Rivers, Resolution of Paris

19 October 1934

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

اتفاقية فيينا لقانون المعاهدات

22 May 1933

Convention relating to the Development of Hydraulic Power Affecting More Than One State and Protocol

17 March 1923

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

International Regulation regarding the Use of International Watercourses for Purposes other than Navigation- Declaration of Madrid, 20 April 1911

20 April 1911

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