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On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
15 May 2025

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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights
By :Oakland Institute
30 April 2025
  Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights   A new report exposes the exploitation of the climate crisis by the World Bank to advance a global land grab agenda for corporate interests that will fuel dispossession across the Global South. Under the guise of accessing land for climate action, the
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Israeli Settlers Encroach on West Bank Herders’ Grazing Land
By :Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie; additional reporting by Joyce Zhou in Ein al-Auja; editing by Peter Graff, Reuters
18 April 2025
Herders under growing pressure as West Bank settlers encroach on grazing land     Summary   Israeli shepherd outposts take 14% of West Bank, report says Herding communities under growing economic pressure Grazing land targeted by settlers     AL-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank—Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing
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Solidarity with Small-scale Farmers on International Day of Peasant Struggles
By :GNR2FN
17 April 2025
International Day of Peasant Struggles:  Joint Statement of Peasant and Solidarity Organizations   Today, we join hands with peasants, fisher peoples, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles.    Land grabbing continues to intensify, driven by
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Israeli Settlers Commit over 5,350 Violations in Occupied West Bank since 2015
By :TRT World & Agencies
21 March 2025
Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in occupied West Bank in past decade: Report The report details a wide range of illegal settler violations, including stone-throwing at Palestinians, their homes, and vehicles, as well as arson attacks targeting houses, businesses, farms, and other private properties.     Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in
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Israel’s West Bank Outposts Proliferate since 7 October 2023, Palestinians Fear Annexation
By :Allegra Goodwin, Nada Bashir and Gianluca Mezzofiore, with contributions by Kareem Khadder/CNN
20 March 2025
Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next       BARDALA, West Bank—Jihad Suleiman al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, al-Sawafta said
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Ravaging the Soils of Gaza: Genocide Meets Ecocide
By :Stan Cox, Counterpunch
09 February 2025
When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see Forensic Architecture, A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza since October 2023, p. 301). The attackers
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Tindouf: Anti-imperialist Ecology and Solidarity with Western Sahara
By :Arthur Fabre, Revolution Permanente
07 January 2025
Anti-imperialist ecology: in Tindouf, Greta Thunberg supports the self-determination of the Sahrawis On 6 January 2025, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg visited Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf to publicly show her support and denounce colonization.     “The inhabitants of Western Sahara have the right to self-determination, freedom and dignity. These rights have been
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With Full Purpose and Intent: Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians in Their Home, Refuge and Displacement
By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN
29 November 2024

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Documents (83)

Document Title

Publication Date

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

La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits

09 August 2024

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT

06 September 2023

Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts

06 September 2023

Reflexiones de las OSC sobre el décimo aniversario de los VGGT

06 September 2023

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)

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 (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

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

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020

25 September 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 2020

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

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

17 January 2019

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales

20 November 2018

SDG Land Indicators

01 September 2018

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

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

30 October 2017

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 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

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

HIC comments on Habitat III draft of 27 July 2016

27 July 2016

Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report

01 July 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women

07 March 2016

Recommandation générale No 34 sur les droits des femmes rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

Recomendación general núm. 34 (2016) sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21

04 December 2015

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود

28 May 2015

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa

03 July 2009

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

15 June 2008

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إعلان نييليني

27 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

Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

21 November 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

ICJ Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (summary)

16 October 1975

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