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Israeli Military Uproots Thousands of Palestinian Olive Trees in West Bank
By :Al Jazeera Staff
23 August 2025
Israeli military uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank     The Israeli military has destroyed about 3,000 olive trees in a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the head of the local council says, as Palestinians face a continued wave of violence across the territory in the shadow
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UN Confirms Famine in Gaza for First Time
By :FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO
22 August 2025
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition   ROME, GENEVA, NEW YORK—More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according
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Sudan: RSF Bombs Abu Shouk Camp, North Darfur
By :Darfur Network for Human Rights
22 August 2025
At Least 14 Killed in RSF Shelling on Abu Shouk Camp, North Darfur     On 20 and 21 August 2025, artillery shelling by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Abu Shouk displacement camp north of El Fasher, North Darfur, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more. According to the Sudan
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East Jerusalem: Israel Approves E1 Settler Colony
By :Jeremy Sharon, The Times of Israel
21 August 2025
Planning body gives final approval to controversial E1 West Bank settlement project     The highly controversial E1 settlement project to build some 3,400 housing units between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank is given final approval by the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration, a Defense Ministry
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Famine Turned Me into a Farmer in Gaza
By :Hassan Herzallah, The Massachusetts Review
20 August 2025
Famine Turned Me into a Farmer in Gaza     It’s 5:50 in the morning, just ten minutes before the university bus is supposed to arrive. I should be rushing to catch it and head to my classes in Gaza, just like I used to every day. But today, I’m trapped in a
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Invitation: Visit Hakoritna Farm West Bank as Israeli Forces Order Its Destruction
By :JLAC
17 August 2025
Israeli Forces order the destruction of Hakoritna Farm in Tulkarm, West Bank An attack on Palestinian Food Sovereignty during a policy of starvation   Date: Wednesday, 20 August 2025 Purpose: Solidarity visit with diplomatic missions and NGOs Location: Hakoritna Farm, Tulkarem, West Bank, Palestine     TULKAREM—In an ongoing escalation of its assault on Palestinian farmers and food
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Israel Installs Mobile Settler-housing Units in Palestinian-controlled Hebron
By :HIC-HLRN
09 July 2025
Footage from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron shows Israel installing mobile housing units in the center of al-Khalil (Hebron) to install a new wave of Israeli settlers in the part of the city designated under Oslo agreements as within Palestinian Authority jurisdiction.   The trucks transporting the housing units were
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Tulkarem Refugee Camp: Despite Court Ruling, IDF Starts Mass Demolition
07 July 2025
Israeli Military Signals Start of Mass Demolitions in Tulkarem Refugee Camp     In an update submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court on 6 July 2025, the Israeli military announced its intention to begin implementing wide-scale demolition orders in the Tulkarem Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank, today, 7 July.   The notice follows an
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Israeli Supreme Court Freezes Mass Demolitions in Tulkarem
By :Adalah
03 July 2025
Israeli Supreme Court Issues Injunction Freezing Mass Demolitions in Tulkarem Following Adalah’s Petition on Behalf of Palestinian Refugees   Petitioners’ homes lie adjacent to vacant land, undermining the Israeli military’s claim of needing operational space. The Court instructed the military not to carry out the demolitions in the meantime and ordered the
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Harvard Study Finds Israel ‘Disappeared’ Nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Half Children
By :The Cradle
24 June 2025
Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023   A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians
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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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