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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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Trump’s Pipelines Have a Death Toll. Its Name Is Fort Chipewyan.
By :Brandi Morin, Indigenous Insider
17 April 2026
Trump’s Pipelines Have a Death Toll. Its Name Is Fort Chipewyan. After signing nine Enbridge pipeline permits this week, Trump added his signature to a decades-long sentence already being served by a dying community in northern Alberta — one that sits downstream   On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed a stack of presidential permits
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Israel’s 5-year Plan to Expand Colonies in Occupied Syrian Golan
By :Mohammad Sio, Anadolu Acensi
16 April 2026
Israel approves 5-year plan to develop illegal settlements in occupied Syrian Golan Heights Government backs $334 million plan to expand Katzrin settlement and boost Israeli population in occupied territory   ISTANBUL—Israel has approved a five-year plan worth about $334 million to develop illegal settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, Israeli media reported
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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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Dubai Ports World Boss Falls under Epstein Exposure
By :Jana Choukeir and Federico Maccioni; additional reporting: Sam Tabahriti and Nivedita Balu; editing: Kevin Liffey, William Maclean
13 February 2026
Dubai`s DP World boss removed from post after pressure over Epstein       Summary   Bin Sulayem is one of region`s most prominent business figures Alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein put DP World under pressure DP World says it handles around 10% of global container traffic   DUBAI—Dubai port giant DP World said on Friday its chairman and chief
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The Leaning Tower of New York
By :Eric Lach, The New Yorker
03 February 2026
The Leaning Tower of New York How a luxury condo building in Manhattan went sideways.     At the end of the fifth season of “Million Dollar Listing New York,” which aired in 2016, Fredrik Eklund, a Swedish adult-film actor turned real-estate broker, was in the grips of a professional crisis. He was desperate
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UN Risks “imminent financial collapse,” Secretary General Warns
By :Maia Davies and Imogen Foulkes, BBC
30 January 2026
UN risks `imminent financial collapse`, secretary general warns António Guterres said the organisation`s money could run out by July   The United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees, the body`s head has warned.   António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was
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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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Gaza: “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image, without Palestinians
By :Séamus Malekafzali, The Intercept
21 January 2026
Plans Call for “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image — Without Palestinians Project Sunrise outlines a “smart city” with AI grids. It’s only possible with the continued dispossession of Palestinians.     Over the past several days, the “Board of Peace,” the long-awaited Trump-led body that promised to turn the Gaza Strip into what amounts
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Cairo: Clashes in al-Warraq: 90,000 Residents Reject Forced Eviction
By :Rasha Ammar, واوية ثالثة
16 January 2026
Clashes in Al-Waraq: 90,000 Residents Reject Forced Eviction Security forces and government bodies push forward with the 17.5-billion-pound “Horus City” project on Al-Waraq Island as 90,000 residents resist eviction amid legal disputes, daily tensions, and contested land ownership     Clashes have renewed in recent days inside Al-Waraq Island between security forces and a
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Documents (39)

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Publication Date

Green Financing in Iraq (project matrix)

09 November 2025

The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights

09 August 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

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

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS

23 October 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 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

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

"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

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

30 July 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

What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara

19 September 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

Commentary on the High Level Independent Panel`s Report to Assess and Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat (summary)

05 September 2017

Commentary on the High Level Independent Panel`s Report to Assess and Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat

05 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment

27 June 2017

The Future We Want – The United Nations We Need

16 June 2016

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 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

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

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