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Palestinians Face Death Fishing Gaza’s Israeli-controlled Sea
By :Ahmed Al-Najjar, Aljazeera
08 March 2026
Palestinians risk life and limb to fish in Gaza’s Israeli-controlled sea Gaza’s fishing industry collapses under Israeli blockade, leaving fishermen risking their lives for minimal catches.     Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – On the blue, wavy surface off the Khan Younis seaport, two Palestinian fishermen paddled their small, battered boat nearly 200 metres
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Israel Attacks, Orders All Residents out of South Lebanon
07 March 2026
Lebanon: Israeli blanket displacement orders bring more misery to civilians From spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani   GENEVA—Israel’s military ground incursions into southern Lebanon, blanket displacement orders for the population in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa region and the full area to the south of the Litani
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Israeli Measures on Occupied West Bank Ease Theft of Palestinian Property
By :Aysar Alais and Rania Abushamala, Anadolu Acensi
09 February 2026
Israeli measures on occupied West Bank ‘dangerous, violation of international law’: Palestinian official     ‘Israeli decisions are an attempt to systematically change the geographical nature of the Palestinian land,’ Amir Dawood tells Anadolu   RAMALLAH, Palestine—A Palestinian official on Monday called recent Israeli decisions aimed at changing the legal and civil status in the
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Israel Sprays Glyphosate Herbicide on Southern Lebanon Farms
By :Damien Gayle and William Christou, The Guardian
05 February 2026
Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable     Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that would
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Palestinian Woman Defies Land Seizure, Living in a Cave and Driving a Tractor
By :Wisal Abu Alia, Palestine National News
04 February 2026
Palestinian Woman Defies Land Seizure by Living in a Cave and Driving a Tractor     RAMALLAH—In al-Khalayel, south of the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, heroism is not measured by slogans but by the ability to endure. There, Fatima Osama Abu Naim chose to confront land confiscation and settlement expansion in
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The Leaning Tower of New York
By :Eric Lach, The New Yorker
03 February 2026
The Leaning Tower of New York How a luxury condo building in Manhattan went sideways.     At the end of the fifth season of “Million Dollar Listing New York,” which aired in 2016, Fredrik Eklund, a Swedish adult-film actor turned real-estate broker, was in the grips of a professional crisis. He was desperate
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Why Lagos Makoko Housing Demolitions Spark Global Outcry
By :Darius Spearman, africanelements
29 January 2026
Why Lagos Makoko Housing Demolitions Spark Global Outcry     The air in Lagos, Nigeria, often carries the scent of salt from the lagoon and the hustle of a mega-city. However, in January 2026, the atmosphere turned acrid with the smell of tear gas. Families in the historic Makoko community stood in shock
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The U.S. Plan for Gaza Has Nothing in It for Palestinians
By :Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss
28 January 2026
The U.S. plan for Gaza has nothing in it for Palestinians The U.S. plan for Gaza envisions a Gaza for investors, not Palestinians.     The latest iteration of the future U.S. plan for Gaza was revealed last week by U.S. President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the inaugural ceremony of the so-called “Board
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Gaza: “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image, without Palestinians
By :Séamus Malekafzali, The Intercept
21 January 2026
Plans Call for “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image — Without Palestinians Project Sunrise outlines a “smart city” with AI grids. It’s only possible with the continued dispossession of Palestinians.     Over the past several days, the “Board of Peace,” the long-awaited Trump-led body that promised to turn the Gaza Strip into what amounts
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Palestine: Israeli Law Cuts UNRWA Energy and Water
By :Adalah
20 January 2026
  Adalah Files Urgent Request to Israeli Supreme Court to Halt Implementation of New Anti-UNRWA Law Mandating Severance of Electricity and Water to UNRWA facilities      As Israeli forces raided and began demolishing UNRWA’s East Jerusalem headquarters today, Adalah submitted an urgent request demanding a halt to the December 2025 law, stating that
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Documents (65)

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Publication Date

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

26 June 2025

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

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

11 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

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 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

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

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

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

30 July 2020

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

30 July 2020

“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”

15 November 2019

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

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

06 June 2018

New York City SDG-reporting press release

01 May 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 2017

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad

01 September 2011

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

30 June 2011

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

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

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 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

Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

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

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

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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