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Two Years of Genocide: U.S. Military Aid to Israel, Oct. 2023 – Sept. 2025
By :HLRN and William D. Hartung
07 October 2025
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 – September 2025     At this two-year marker in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, we reflect on the role of the United States in aiding, abetting and arming that crime of crimes.   In addition to the incalculable benefit to Israel of U.S.
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Gaza Population Movement Monitoring Flash Update
By :United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Needs and Population Monitoring
24 September 2025
Gaza Population Movement Monitoring Flash Update 20 – 23 September 2025     As of 23 September, an estimated 2.1 million people live in Gaza, with 82% of the territory either within militarized areas or under displacement orders. (OCHA)   During the reporting period, military operations have continued to intensify in Gaza City, the origin
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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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Gaza: Mass Eviction as Israeli Ground Invasion Intensifies
By :Al Jazeera and News agencies
17 September 2025
Mass displacement in Gaza as Israeli ground invasion intensifies Humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza with no safe exits, as mass displacement and Israeli attacks continue unabated.     Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City as Israel’s deadly ground invasion in its genocidal war continues.   An Israeli army spokesperson announced
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Gaza: IDF Expels 280,000 Gaza City Residents
By :Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel
13 September 2025
IDF says 280,000 Gaza City residents have left; high-rise said used by Hamas hit in strike Hamas claims far fewer of the estimated one million Gazans living in the city have evacuated ahead of planned ground offensive     Tens of thousands more Palestinians evacuated Gaza City over the past day, the Israeli military
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The August 2025 Palestine Economic Update Is Out
By :MAS
06 September 2025
The Palestine Economic Update - August 2025 is out now.   Key Messages :       Settlers have targeted key water infrastructure near Ramallah, while Israel curbs supply across the West Bank and blocks infrastructure development, fuelling a recurring and manufactured water crisis.   The PA’s limited security jurisdiction hinders its ability to curb water theft, yet
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Israel “opening gates of hell”: Bombs High-rise Towers
By :Aljazeera
05 September 2025
Israel bombs high-rise towers as brutal Gaza City assault intensifies The ‘gates of hell are opening’ in Gaza, says Israeli defence minister as attacks cause panic and fear among civilians.     Israel’s forces have destroyed a high-rise tower in a densely populated part of Gaza City and have warned of further attacks to multi-storey buildings
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Palestine: Israel’s Smotrich Plots to Annex 82% of West Bank
By :Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel
03 September 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed a plan to annex more than 82% of the West Bank, urging Netanyahu to impose Israeli sovereignty over these areas. He called for expelling most Palestinians while leaving only around 18% until an alternative is found to replace with another governance system under the
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Legal Notice to UK Local Councils: The Obligation to Divest from Israel’s Crimes
By :Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK)
01 September 2025
Legal Notice Outlines Councils are Under an Obligation to Divest from Israel’s Crimes   Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK) has issued a legal notice to every town council in England & Wales administering a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund, outlining that they must take steps to divest from companies enabling and profiting
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Sudan: RSF Builds Barrier around Besieged al-Fashir City
By :Anne Soy, BBC News
30 August 2025
Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city, satellite images show     An extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people inside, according to research from Yale University.   From satellite images, the university`s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) has identified more than 31km (19
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Documents (63)

Document Title

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

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

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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