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Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction: WB, EU & UN Estimate Costs @ $71.4 Billion
By :Press and information team - Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA)
21 April 2026
Final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment estimates $71.4 billion for recovery and reconstruction   In a detailed report rich in passive voice description of loss and damage incurred through Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a new World Bank-EU-UN recovery and reconstruction prospectus does not mention liability or reparations. Israel’s genocide, Hamas
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Returning Forced Evictions to the Development Agenda
By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN
10 April 2026
  Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due to political, technical, and institutional
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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
05 April 2026
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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Now available: Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 34
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2026
Now available: The latest issue of Land Timesأحوال الأرض/  No. 34 bears witness to the rupture of our present-day, it also seeks to be part of the remedy.   Find a summary of the contents in the editorial [AR], with a critical review of new and contentious terms in the “Terminology Corner,”
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“My Land is the Freedom I will Never Compromise” 50th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day
By :Waed Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
30 March 2026
“My land is my soul, my identity, my home,” this was Umm Rafiq’s response, a farmer from Sinjil currently facing vicious settler violence and depopulation attempts, when we asked her what her land meant to her.    Today marks the 50th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day. Despite the ongoing horrors by Israel and its allies, whether the Israeli
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Green Financing in Iraq (project matrix)
09 November 2025

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Palestine’s West Bank: Record Israeli Criminal Construction Tenders in 2025
By :Jeremy Sharon, Times of Israel
09 November 2025
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025   Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published   The number of housing units in West Bank settlements
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Trump’s Criminal GREAT Trust Gaza Plan
By :Karen DeYoung and Cate Brown, The Washington Post
31 August 2025
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population The Trump administration and international partners are discussing proposals to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.     A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration, modeled
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Canada: JNF Loses Final Appeal, “Charity” No More
By :L`Orient Today
09 June 2025
Canadian Jewish National Fund loses final appeal to regain revoked charitable status JNF Canada was found to have funded infrastructure projects for the Israeli military, which violates Canadian law prohibiting charities from supporting foreign militaries.      The Canadian branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) officially lost its "registered charity" status after a
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Hydrogen Pipeline Sparks Outrage in Global Soouth
By :A coalition of 87 civil society organizations and networks
17 March 2025
Hydrogen Pipeline Sparks Outrage EU’s South H2 Corridor Faces Backlash over Environmental and Social Risks   BRUSSELS—A coalition of 87 civil society organizations and networks express their opposition to the South H2 Corridor in a joint statement released today. The construction of the 3,300 km hydrogen pipeline from North Africa to Germany via
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Documents (40)

Document Title

Publication Date

Green Financing in Iraq (project matrix)

09 November 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors

15 February 2023

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 2022

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

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

30 July 2020

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

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment

27 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

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

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response

14 January 2016

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

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

15 May 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Renaissance Dam Agreement on Declaration of Principles

23 March 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

ETOs and Transnational Corruption

11 July 2013

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

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

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

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 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

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