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Israel’s Military Unit Displacing a Million Palestinians from Gaza City
By :Ameer Makhoul, Progress Center for Policies
23 August 2025
The Military Unit That Will Lead the Displacement of One Million Palestinians from Gaza City     Under the title “The military unit that will lead the evacuation of one million residents from Gaza City,” Itay Ilanai, military, intelligence, and security analyst at Israel Hayom, provides a striking insight into Netanyahu’s government, the
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Israeli Military Uproots Thousands of Palestinian Olive Trees in West Bank
By :Al Jazeera Staff
23 August 2025
Israeli military uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank     The Israeli military has destroyed about 3,000 olive trees in a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the head of the local council says, as Palestinians face a continued wave of violence across the territory in the shadow
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East Jerusalem: Israel Approves E1 Settler Colony
By :Jeremy Sharon, The Times of Israel
21 August 2025
Planning body gives final approval to controversial E1 West Bank settlement project     The highly controversial E1 settlement project to build some 3,400 housing units between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank is given final approval by the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration, a Defense Ministry
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Invitation: Visit Hakoritna Farm West Bank as Israeli Forces Order Its Destruction
By :JLAC
17 August 2025
Israeli Forces order the destruction of Hakoritna Farm in Tulkarm, West Bank An attack on Palestinian Food Sovereignty during a policy of starvation   Date: Wednesday, 20 August 2025 Purpose: Solidarity visit with diplomatic missions and NGOs Location: Hakoritna Farm, Tulkarem, West Bank, Palestine     TULKAREM—In an ongoing escalation of its assault on Palestinian farmers and food
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98.5% of Gaza Cropland Unavailable for Cultivation amid Famine
By :FAO
09 August 2025
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods Rome – As famine looms in the Gaza Strip, a new assessment conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)
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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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Invitation: ICJ Advisory Opinion on States’ Climate Obligations – A Defining Moment for Climate Justice
By :Dibeen for Environmental Development
30 July 2025
Warm greetings, In a moment that marks a turning point in the pursuit of climate justice, the long-awaited advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of states in the context of climate change was issued on 23 July 2025, following a request from the United Nations
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Fair Climate Finance Requires Debt Reform
By :Mohamed Adow, project-syndicate.org
30 July 2025
From biased risk assessments to harsh loan conditionality, the global financial architecture is practically designed to entrench inequality. Reforming it is vital to finance climate action, particularly for debt-distressed countries – and Africa must take the lead in advocating for change. NAIROBI – When delegates from around the world convened in
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Climate Change does not Cause Land Conflict, it Exacerbates it
By :Elizabeth Daley, sparc-knowledge
30 July 2025
At this year`s LANDac Land Conference, SPARC shared evidence from pastoralists in Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria on how land governance in drylands can create sustainable, gender-inclusive change. At the annual LANDac Land Governance Conference on July 4th 2025, I had the privilege of chairing a session, “Learning from SPARC research
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Opposing Illegal Trade in Occupied Western Sahara Agriculture
By :Adalah UK
25 July 2025
Adala UK Condemns HortiDaily’s Promotion of Illegal Agriculture in Occupied Western Sahara     Adala UK strongly condemns the recent article published by HortiDaily on 6 May 2025, titled “Dakhla growers urged to diversify their markets”. The article presents a commercial narrative about agricultural production and export in Dakhla, without any mention of the legal status of
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Documents (159)

Document Title

Publication Date

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

تقرير مركز أبحاث الأراضي، بمناسبة ذكرى النكبة السابع والسبعين- 2025

18 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

Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era

10 March 2025

أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية

10 March 2025

استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)

09 March 2025

Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)

20 February 2025

Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024

27 October 2024

بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون

07 October 2024

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food

09 December 2022

ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS

23 October 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

18 September 2022

Joint statement to HRC on CoI Palestine report

13 June 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on women`s political leadership

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 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

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

07 January 2022

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

Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique

10 February 2021

Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa

10 February 2021

HIC Women in Africa PPT

10 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 December 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 October 2020

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

16 September 2020

Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid

01 September 2020

لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير

13 July 2020

Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond

13 July 2020

Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court

29 April 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

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

06 September 2019

Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report

05 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

Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen

22 November 2018

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2018

SDG Land Indicators

01 September 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

Dubai Declaration on Land Governance in the Arab States

26 February 2018

إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية

26 February 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 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

Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System

21 August 2017

SDG 6

18 July 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต

19 June 2017

دور البلديات: الصلاحيات القانونية والممارسات

15 June 2017

تحديات الإقامة الكريمة في ظل ممارسات البلديات

15 June 2017

تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت

15 June 2017

الإطار الحقوقي لمبادرة الحق في المدينة

14 June 2017

الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي

14 June 2017

الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى

14 June 2017

Right to the city: practical application in other cities

14 June 2017

Local Government Role: legal mandate & practices

14 June 2017

Review & discussion on the initial draft of Beirut City Charter

14 June 2017

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

14 June 2017

“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut

24 May 2017

Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017

05 May 2017

الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي

15 March 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

HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334

28 December 2016

بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334

28 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)

23 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar

23 December 2016

برنامج ورشة العمل الأولى لمشروع الملجأ في المدينة،بيروت

21 December 2016

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

الحكومات المحلية والمجتمعات المستضيفة تجاه أزمة اللاجئين، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)

20 December 2016

الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى

20 December 2016

دور البلديات والممارسات المحلية في تطبيق ميثاق الحق في المدينة

20 December 2016

دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان

20 December 2016

مبادئ حقوق الإنسان وتطبيق الحق في المدينة في لبنان

20 December 2016

مقدمة عن مشروع لبنان وورش العمل

17 August 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

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

01 July 2016

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

03 June 2016

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

01 June 2016

Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)

24 May 2016

تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016

09 April 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

Growing Stress on Jordan by Council on Foreign Relations

17 March 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development

22 December 2015

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

23 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)

19 December 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”

01 September 2014

إعلان مسقط الوزاري حول المعاهدة الدولية بشأن الموارد الوراثية النباتية للأغذية والزراعة

21 September 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

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

منتدى الأرض، الدورة الثالثة "الأرض وسيادة الشعوب وتقرير المصير"

17 January 2012

Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop

30 September 2011

The Goldberg Opportunity: A Chance for Human Rights-based Statecraft in Israel, Fact-finding Report No. 13

31 December 2010

الاتفاقية العربية لمكافحة الفساد، جامعة الدول العربية، 2010

12 December 2010

The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara

15 June 2010

Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory

01 April 2010

NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference

05 February 2010

إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا

03 July 2009

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

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19

15 June 2006

Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)

11 March 2005

Informe del Relator Especial sobre una vivienda adecuada como elemento integrante del derecho a un n

03 March 2005

“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

House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem

14 February 2002

تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة

14 February 2002

Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States

01 January 2002

الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة

24 October 2001

Synthesis of National Reports on the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda in the West Asia Region

01 September 2000

Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa

10 September 1994

وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا

10 September 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

European Charter for Women in the City

01 March 1994

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/501 (1982)

25 February 1982

S/RES/465 (1980)

01 March 1980

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

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