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News (10)
Al-Haq Launches Genocide Legal Brief Series
By :AlHaq
12 May 2025
Al-Haq announces the launch of its Genocide Legal Brief Series, examining different elements of the crime of genocide, as a legal toolkit for practitioners working on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. As Israel continues its intensified genocidal assault on Palestinians with impunity, characterised by open statements of genocidal intent,
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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza
By :Architects for Gaza/TRT
26 April 2025
Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza     War is not only fought with weapons; it is also waged through space. Gaza’s destruction is more than just rubble; it’s an assault on a people’s ability to exist, rebuild and return. “Architecture can be a form of resistance,” says Adam Khan, a volunteer architect
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Sudan: IDPs Trapped between Two Conflicts
By :Akisa Wandera, BBC News, Renk
20 April 2025
When the devastating war in Sudan reached Sarah Williams` neighbourhood in the capital Khartoum, she and her children were caught in the crossfire. Bullets tore through their home, fires engulfed buildings, and electricity lines sparked explosions. "We were crawling on the ground," she recalls, holding her one-year-old son close. "It was chaos." Ms
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Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya
By :HIC-HLRN
07 April 2025
Today, HIC-HLRN has contributed its stakeholder submission to the UN Human Rights Council for the 4th round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Libya. The submission poses questions and recommendations for Libya to ensure “effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official
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Call for abstracts: Climate Change and Futures in Africa Conference Series
By :Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
01 April 2025
Climate change is fraught with contradictions and inconsistencies, particularly in the institutionalization and dissemination of climate change knowledge, which the Global North predominantly controls. Meanwhile, the Global South bears the brunt of its impacts, with limited resources for mitigation and adaptation and negligible support from the developed nations. Although climate
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How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
By :HIC-HLRN
01 April 2025

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Upcoming UNPFII Session Focuses on Restorative Justice
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2025
In February 2025, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) presented its thematic reports for the upcoming 24th session 21 April–5 May 2025.   “Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peacebuilding” (E/C.19/2025/7). The document, authored by Hanieh Moghani, Hannah McGlade and Geoffrey Roth, presents
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Syria: The Day After Statements on State Building
By :The Day After
27 March 2025
Current reporting from The Day After (TDA) reflects the challenges of state building in Syria, including needed remedies for the millions of displaced persons and restitution of millions of homes destroyed and stripped down appropriated by the Asad government agents and cronies. Read TDA’s statement below with links to the
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Documents (94)

Document Title

Publication Date

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 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

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 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

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

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 (جبر الضرر)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية

18 September 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 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

Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021

30 August 2021

التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن

28 January 2021

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

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 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

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

Nuremberg judgments

10 December 2018

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

Process from Problem to Solution (graphic)

12 November 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

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

The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool

28 August 2016

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda

19 July 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response

14 January 2016

"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21

04 December 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 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

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

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

01 September 2014

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

11 July 2013

Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya

01 December 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

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

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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

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

The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life

16 May 2006

Principes fondamentaux et directives concernant le droit à un recours et à réparation des victimes de violations flagrantes du droit international des droits de l’homme et de violations graves du droit international humanitaire, A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations, A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية بشأن الحق في الانتصاف والجبر لضحايا الانتهاكات الجسيمة للقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان والانتهاكات الخطيرة للقانون الإنساني الدولي، A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

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

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)

20 June 2005

Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28

16 April 2004

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

”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

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

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