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Over 3 million Displaced Iranians So Far

By :Sam McNeil and Serra Yedikardes, The Associated Press

14 March 2026

More than 3 million Iranians have been displaced so far since the war started, setting up a potential migration crisis After bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan, hairdresser Merve Pourkaz decided to leave. Pourkaz, 32, said she traveled nearly 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) to an alpine
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International Women’s Day: Palestinian Women’s Inspiring Resistance

By :BDS National Committee

08 March 2026

International Women’s Day: The Inspiring Resistance of Palestinian Women On 8 March, the reality of Palestinian women cannot be separated from their tireless resistance to colonial violence and ongoing genocide — which demolishes their homes, threatens their land and throws them in prison cells. Women also carry most of the burden of caring
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Lebanon: Rent Reform amid Collapse and War

By :Public Works Studio

04 March 2026

Rent Reform amid Collapse and War On Wednesday, 25 February 2026, MP Halima El Kaakour, along with several MPs, submitted two draft laws to the Speaker of Parliament. The first, an amendment to the old residential lease law, and the second, to regulate lease contracts, were submitted in an emergency step
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Adalah Demands Israel Cancel Illegal West Bank Land Title Decision

By :Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

18 February 2026

Adalah Demands Cancellation of Israeli Government Decision to Advance Land Title Settlement in the West Bank, Citing Grave Violations of International Law On 16 February 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter to Defense Minister Israel Katz, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and
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South Sudan: Violence Surges, 280,000 Newly Displaced, Peacekeepers Overwhelmed

By :Vibhu Mishra, United Nations Peace Keeping

10 February 2026

Violence surges in South Sudan leaving civilians at risk and peacekeepers stretched thin Escalating violence, political stalemate and humanitarian constraints are pushing South Sudan’s civilians to the brink once again, while funding cuts weaken the UN mission tasked with protecting them. Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council on Tuesday, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said instability
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Dystopian Trump/Kushner Development Scheme for Gaza

By :Maira Butt

22 January 2026

Trump releases bizarre plans for ‘New Gaza’ featuring luxury apartments and coastal tourism The Trump administration has unveiled bizarre new pictures for a “new Gaza”, featuring a data centre, luxury apartments and “coastal tourism”. Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, unveiled the images during a press conference at the Davos signing of the
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Palestine: Israeli Lawmakers Salute Criminal Settlers

By :Abby Seitz, Haaretz

20 January 2026

In the Knesset, lawmakers salute the lawless, violent settlers who shape Israel`s fate The day-long ceremony highlighted how far, in just three years, Israel has drifted from treating settler violence as a taboo to celebrating its `pioneers` in the seat of power Today, in the Knesset`s auditorium, far-right Otzma Yehudit lawmaker Limor
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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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Iran: Security Forces Raid Homes to Repress Dissent

By :Iran Human Rights

20 January 2026

Witness Account of Bloody Crackdown of Mashhad Protests Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); 20 January 2026: Twenty-four days since the start of the nationwide protests in Iran and thirteen days after the internet blackout, information and eyewitness accounts are revealing the scale of the large-scale killing of protesters by state forces. An eyewitness
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Israel Demolitions & Displacement in Palestine – December 2025

By :Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

15 January 2026

Demolitions & Displacement in the occupied West Bank and within the state of Israel - December 2025 Report On 22 December, when people were already involved in Christmas celebrations, the world was torn apart for 100 Palestinians when Israeli authorities demolished a four-story building in Wadi Qadum, a neighborhood in Silwan,
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Documents (175)

Document Title	Publication Date
Green Financing in Iraq (project matrix)	09 November 2025
الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال	25 October 2025
The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights	09 August 2025
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain	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
Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya	07 April 2025
Climate Finance Table - Tunisia	23 August 2024
La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits	09 August 2024
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
دور منظمات المجتمع المحلي الأراضي والحلول المستدامة للنازحين	21 March 2023
Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	21 March 2023
Climate Finance in Egypt (table)	10 March 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 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 (تعهدات الدولة)	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
Gold Extractivism- Sudan	16 June 2022
Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects	23 April 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
Joint Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women	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
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
Global Farmers Strike - First Wave	01 February 2021
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	28 January 2021
التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن	28 January 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 December 2020
Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report	08 December 2020
Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip	10 November 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
Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid	16 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
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights	20 July 2020
Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya	16 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues	22 March 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
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
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie	13 July 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
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine	23 August 2017
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 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
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3	28 April 2017
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Saudi Arabia, A/HRC/35/26/Add.3	28 April 2017
تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة	28 February 2017
Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs	20 January 2017
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool	27 August 2016
Statement of the Brazilian Civil Society on the New Urban Agenda	31 May 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
The National Report for the Third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (HABITAT III) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (working document)	01 January 2016
Sudan’s Report for United Nations’ Third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, (Habitat III), 2016	01 January 2016
Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq	29 November 2015
Egyptian CSO Reporting Division of Labor	22 September 2015
The private modes of water capture in Lebanon	01 September 2015
Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector	01 September 2015
Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon	01 September 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments	30 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the Republic of Korea	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria	08 June 2015
Rapport Pays pour Habitat III de la République de Madagascar	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of Belgium	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the United States of America	08 June 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 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
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Turkey, A/HRC/29/15	13 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
The Third National Report on the Habitat in Cooperation with UN Program for Human Settlement (Jordan)	01 September 2014
“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
حول خطة لمقاربة الموازنة العامة للدولة	06 September 2013
ACIJ دراسات الحالة	06 September 2013
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
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
Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya	01 December 2012
Egypt Study Visit Brief	10 February 2012
Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop	30 September 2011
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
"تقرير الخبيرة المستقلة المعنية بمسألة التزامات حقوق الإنسان المتعلقة بالحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى مصر"	10 July 2010
Report of SR related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation Mission to Egypt July 2010	05 July 2010
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City	01 July 2010
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث	22 May 2010
NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference	05 February 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
Addressing Marginality: Some Theoretical and Practical Contributions from Social Science and Law	27 September 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
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 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
"Neo‐liberalism on crack Cities under siege in Iraq," City, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2007)	21 May 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
Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households	30 September 2006
Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households	30 September 2006
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games	31 December 2005
Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)	11 March 2005
Informe sobre el Pacto Internacional de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales – PIDESC	14 November 2003
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Dominican Republic (Executive Summary)	14 November 2003
“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”	05 May 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
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
A Função Social da Propriedade	01 November 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
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
Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
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