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Israel`s West Bank Land Registration Serves `annexation`
By :AFP WORLD
13 May 2025
Israel`s West Bank land registration serves `annexation`: NGO Denouncing the Netanyahu government`s decision to launch extensive land registration for parts of the occupied West Bank on Monday, an Israeli rights group warned that the measure could help advance the annexation of the Palestinian territory.     An Israeli rights group denounced on Monday a
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Palestine/Israel: Wild Fire Plague on Stolen Lands, Zionism in Flames
By :Ronnie Kasrils, Palestine Chronicle
02 May 2025
Fires Ablaze in a Stolen Land: A Failing Zionist Project in Flames [commentary]   The genocidal apartheid state requests the West for help to fight the fires, whilst, without any scruples whatsoever, its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.   The forests that cover the demolished Palestinian villages of the 1948 Nakba are
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With Full Purpose and Intent: Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians in Their Home, Refuge and Displacement
29 November 2024
On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HIC-HLRN is sharing the most-recent products of its monitoring and documentation of the Indigenous People’s housing and land rights violations, abuses that form the heart of the Zionist colonial project. By invasion, acquisition of territory through force and deception, violent
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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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Rome: Pope Francis Joins World Meeting of Popular Movements
By :Dicastery for Integral Human Development (DPIHD)
20 September 2024
Pope Francis participates in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first World Meeting of Popular Movements The Holy Father attends the Symposium at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development Pope Francis visited the Dicastery for Integral Human Development (DPIHD) on September 20, to participate in the 10th anniversary symposium
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Apartheid Israel`s Genocide against Palestine, People and Land (update)
03 July 2024
See the attached graphic to visualize the update of ongoing Israeli crimes in Gaza. The graphic, prepared by the South African Palestine Solidarity Campaign and South African BDS Coalition. Data are compiled from the Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza) and latest Aljazeera, European Human Rights Monitor, and Slingshot Media reports.   Download
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May 2024 Report: Israel’s Demolitions & Displacement of Palestinian Households
By :Israeli Committee against House Demolitions
20 June 2024
Demolitions & Displacement in the occupied West Bank (including occupied East Jerusalem) and within the State of Israel May 2024 Report – ICAHD   In May there was a sharp rise in demolitions all over occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Naqab (Negev) desert. Entire villages were razed, dozens of homes,
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ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Rafah Offensive
By :Alexandra Sharp, Foreign Policy
24 May 2024
ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Its Rafah Offensive This is the first time that the World Court has explicitly told Israel to halt military actions in Gaza.     The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to stop its assault on Rafah in southern Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive has forced some 800,000
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Israeli Settlers Suffocating Palestinian Shepherds with Land Theft
By :Al Mayadeen English, The Guardian and Haaretz
19 May 2024
Israeli settlers suffocating Palestinian shepherds with land theft Settler intimidation has caused 18 pastoral groups to leave their homes in the Jordan Valley, according to data released by the Israeli B`Tselem in March.   Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are reporting an increase in land theft by armed Israeli settlers who are
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Coveting Land, Targeting Homes, Shelters and Shelter Seekers: Israel’s raison d’état, military doctrine and consistent practice
By :Joseph Schechla
30 March 2024
Israel’s targeting of homes, shelters and shelter seekers has characterized its ongoing genocide against the Indigenous Palestinian people in Gaza. Notably, this also features in the West Bank, as indeed across historic Palestine and throughout the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology.   To commemorate Palestine’s Day of the Land 2024, HIC-HLRN
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Documents (31)

Document Title

Publication Date

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 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

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

28 January 2021

"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

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

17 January 2019

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Saudi Arabia, A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

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

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1

31 December 1967

The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law

01 January 1964

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

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