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Palestine: Israel Revives E1 Plan amid Raids across West Bank

By :Al Jazeera Staff

06 August 2025

Israel pushes for more illegal settlements in occupied West Bank amid raids Plans to expand in the E1 area east of occupied East Jerusalem would bisect area and isolate Palestinian communities. Israeli authorities are moving forward with plans to dramatically expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite growing international condemnation and
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Palestine: Israel Revives Colonial Expansion Plans in E1, Occupied Jerusalem

By :International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)

14 July 2025

Israel Revives Colonial Expansion Plans in E1, Occupied Jerusalem After a pause since 2021, Israeli occupation authorities have reinitiated plans to expand illegal colonial construction in the E1 zone, located east of occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. A report published Monday by Israeli daily Haaretz indicates that the renewed effort threatens to
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Israel/Palestine: Court Cancels Threat to Displace Ras Jrabah Naqab Village

By :Adalah

25 June 2025

Be’er Sheva District Court Cancels Approval of Plan to Expand Dimona that Threatens to Displace Bedouin Village of Ras Jrabah and Its 500 Residents The court accepted two separate petitions: one filed by Adalah on behalf of Bimkom and the residents of Ras Jrabah, and another by the Society for the
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The “Arab Belt” Project in Syria: 51 Years of Structural Discrimination and Denial of Justice

By :hevdesti.org

24 June 2025

A Facts Sheet Marking the Passage of 51 Years Since the Launch of the Discriminatory Project on June 24, 1974. On this day, June 24, 1974, the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party issued Decision No. 521, officially launching what became known as the “Arab Belt” Project—one of the
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Palestine: Final Ruling for the Eviction of Three Families

By :Peacenow.org

23 June 2025

Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein summarily rejected yesterday (June 22, 2025) the appeal of the Um Nasser Rajabi family (18 people) and ruled that they must [vacate] their home, where they have lived since the 1970s, in favor of settlers. The ruling followed Justice Solberg’s decision last week (16 June
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Women in the Wake of Floods

By :Habitat Defenders Africa (HDA) and HIC-HLRN

10 June 2025

This report presents the outcomes of applying the Climate Change Impact-assessment and Justice Tool (CCIAJT) to produce community-led data on the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households in the 2025 flooding in Kosovo Informal Settlement, Kampala, Uganda. The enumeration exercise has resulted in a conservative estimate of €55,021 in
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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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5 June 1967 Anniversary amid Israel`s Consistent Violation of International Law

By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh, Land Research Center

05 June 2025

Introduction The Israeli occupation state has emerged through repeated initiatives by colonial powers seeking political and economic control over the Arab region (West Asia and North Africa). In 1799, after the defeat of his armies at the walls of Acre and their failure to occupy Palestine and the Levant, the French
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Under Siege: Urban Development in Egypt’s Warraq Island

By :Ibrahim Ezzeldin, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

04 June 2025

In the heart of Greater Cairo, residents of the Nile island of Warraq are fighting against a government-backed urban development scheme. “These are not images of Manhattan Island!” With this statement, the State Information Service, the Egyptian government’s media arm, showcased the new development plan of Warraq, the country’s largest island on
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HIC-wide Inputs to UN Special Rapporteur Study on Land and Housing Rights

By :HIC-HLRN

03 June 2025

In response to a call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal, HIC Members and structures have provided six important inputs to the SR’s study on land and the right to housing. You can find these inputs at the following links: HLRN Global: “Land and the right to
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Documents (203)

Document Title	Publication Date
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings	21 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
Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)	23 April 2025
Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)	20 February 2025
بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون	07 October 2024
Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change	21 November 2023
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
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
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
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" (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
Africities9 CSO statement on social justice	20 May 2022
When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	06 May 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 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
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
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
Crowborough letter	25 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 February 2021
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 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
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	28 January 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
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 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
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
Patterns of Crime against Land & Housing amid COVID	12 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
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights	20 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR	03 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
Land Inequality Framing Document	30 October 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations	06 September 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
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 December 2018
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Campesinos y de Otras Personas que Trabajan en las Zonas Rurales	20 November 2018
Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia	30 September 2018
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
Dubai Declaration on Land Governance in the Arab States	26 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
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
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
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 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
Tunisia: Jemna Oasis Land Struggle	13 April 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
Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016	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
Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool	28 August 2016
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool	27 August 2016
مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور	17 August 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016	28 July 2016
HIC comments on Habitat III draft of 27 July 2016	27 July 2016
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda	19 July 2016
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft	28 June 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence	19 March 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau	19 March 2016
التوصية العامة رقم 34 بشأن حقوق المرأة الريفية	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
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response	14 January 2016
Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq	29 November 2015
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC	18 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
Reporte National de México para Hábitat III	20 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
Egyptian CSO Reporting Division of Labor	22 September 2015
تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270	04 August 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
Guide on the Right to the City	21 July 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments	30 June 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology	27 February 2015
Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle	19 December 2014
Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village	12 December 2014
HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire	15 November 2014
The Right to the City: Cairo	03 November 2014
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية	18 October 2014
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
Preventing Human Rights Violations Done "In the Public Interest": Recommendations for Development that Respect the Prohibition on Forced Evictions	21 March 2014
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, A/HRC/25/54	30 December 2013
Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises	12 August 2013
ETOs and Transnational Corruption	11 July 2013
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara	15 June 2010
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية	09 March 2010
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :	02 February 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”	01 October 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
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
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني	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
“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19	15 June 2006
The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life	16 May 2006
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration	09 March 2006
قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16	11 August 2005
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
حظر الإخلاء القسري، 2004/28	16 April 2004
Prohibition of forced evictions, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28	16 April 2004
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
House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem	14 February 2002
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India	01 January 2002
A Função Social da Propriedade	01 November 2001
European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City	18 May 2000
“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
”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 June 1999
Gender and the Habitat Agenda: Engendering Our Human Settlements	01 April 1999
"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
اللجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 7 "حالة إخلاء المساكن بالإكراه"	20 May 1997
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية	14 April 1996
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
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
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين	06 July 1993
Desalojamientos forzosos, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77	10 March 1993
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
S/RES/465 (1980)	01 March 1980
Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories	21 April 1978
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
Right to the City in Greater Beirut p	01 January 1970
الملكية وظيفة غجتماعية" (خطاب حبيب بورقيبة)"	17 January 1967
Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association	23 December 1956
الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين	28 July 1951
الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الانسان	10 December 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	10 December 1948
Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"	01 March 1946

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