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Egypt Unveils $53 billion Plan to Rebuild Gaza
By :Le Monde with AFP, and Egyptian Streets
05 March 2025
Egypt unveils $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza as alternative to Trump`s proposal The reconstruction plan places Gaza under Palestinian Authority control while sidelining Hamas, with security forces trained in Egypt and Jordan to maintain order.     Egypt has proposed a $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza over five years, focusing on
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Global Housing Crisis 2025
By :HIC-HLRN
04 February 2025
Ipsos Group S.A., whose name derives from the Latin expression, ipso facto, is a multinational market research and consulting firm headquartered in Paris, has issued its first edition of the Ipsos Housing Monitor. This 30-country study explores people`s perceptions of their own personal housing situation and aspirations, and what they
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OHCHR’s Complicit Businesses: Update?
By :HIC-HLRN
03 July 2023
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued the long-awaited and overdue update to the UN database of all business enterprises involved in the Israeli settlements [read: settler colonies] on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
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Kahramanmaraş Quakes: Where is the State?
By :Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal, Bir Gün
12 February 2023
February 6 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes: Where is the state? The Minister of Environment and Urbanization of the country, seventy percent of which lies on an earthquake zone, proudly announced that there have been 10,250,000 applications nationwide for the Construction Amnesty, which had expired on 15 June 2019.   For days, television screens carried the
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Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing
By :Africities9 CSO Forum
20 May 2022

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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice
By :Africities9 CSO Forum
20 May 2022

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Report on Housing & Land Rights in Western Sahara
By :hic-mena
20 March 2022
On the occasion of an upcoming review of the Kingdom Morocco’s human rights record before the UN Human Rights Council, HIC-HLRN has partnered with the Sahrawi Association in the United States of America (SAUSA) to submit a specialized report on housing and land rights conditions in Western Sahara, under Moroccan
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs
By :HIC-HLRN
15 January 2022
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing @ 20
By :OHCHR
22 June 2021
Today, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council: “20 years Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Tacking stock – moving forward”   The report (A/HRC/47/43) highlights key achievements and contributions of the mandate since its establishment
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Israel Plans 2.5K New Colony Units
By :AFP
20 January 2021
Israel invites bids for 2,500 new settler homes     Peace Now said the Israeli government had now invited tenders for a further 2,112 units in the West Bank and 460 in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to make the capital of a future state   Israel has invited tenders for more than 2,500
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Documents (41)

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Publication Date

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)

20 September 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 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

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 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

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports

24 July 2016

"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

Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region

23 October 2015

“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49

07 August 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

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/70/270

04 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles

11 July 2013

Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012

04 July 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City

01 July 2010

السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث

22 May 2010

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

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

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

In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar

31 December 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

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

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"

01 March 1946

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