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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel |
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By :OHCHR |
| 28 November 2025 |
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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Somalia: Lower Shabelle Families Return to Ruins |
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By :Al Jazeera |
| 23 November 2025 |
Somali families return to ruins in Lower Shabelle after al-Shabab retreat
Families in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle are returning home after al-Shabab’s retreat, only to find their houses destroyed and farms abandoned. Many face severe hardship as they work to rebuild their lives amid limited security and scarce resources.
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Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803 |
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By :Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) |
| 22 November 2025 |
Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803 Establishing Joint US-Israel Illegal Occupation of Gaza
PALESTINE—On Monday, 17 November 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of Resolution 2803, normalising the colonial occupation of Palestinian territory. This resolution was imposed on the Palestinian people without their consent, constituting a
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UN Expert: Security Council Resolution on Gaza Violates Palestinian Rights and UN Charter |
| 19 November 2025 |
UN Security Council resolution a violation of Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns
GENEVA—A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian
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New VDB Annual Report: "Imagining Reparation" |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 31 October 2025 |
This 2025 annual report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB), Imagining Reparation: Data, Numbers and Entitlements from Protracted Habitat Rights Violations, focuses on the concept of reparation for housing, land, and property (HLP) rights violations, particularly in the context of Palestine. It builds on previous HLRN reports analyzing violations documented in
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3rd Arab Land Conference Report is Out! |
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By :The Arab Land Initiative Team, GLTN |
| 23 October 2025 |
The Final Report is out, and so are all the session recordings and materials! Whether you joined us in person, participated online or couldn’t make it, this is your opportunity to explore the Conference’s key insights on land governance across the Arab region through its most pressing themes, including
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Solidarity with Defenders of Palestinian Human Rights |
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By :Nada Awad, ISHR |
| 22 September 2025 |
Solidarity statement with Palestinian organisations in the face of Israel’s genocide
We stand in solidarity with Palestinian organisations and human rights defenders worldwide working to uphold international law in the face of Israel’s genocide and colonial apartheid against the Palestinian people. We condemn unlawful threats, restrictions, reprisals and sanctions against individuals,
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Western Sahara in 2025: 50 Years of Occupation and Exile |
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By :Nena Nedrebo, Reflections, Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program |
| 08 September 2025 |
Fifty Years in Exile: Human Rights and the Forgotten Crisis in Western Sahara
Embarka sits in her tent, pitched on the sandy ground in the vast expanse of southwestern Algeria’s desert, in between multitudes of such shelters scattered across the sand dunes. Brewing Sahrawi tea over a small fire as she
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Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza |
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By :Nur Arafeh and Mandy Turner, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center |
| 24 July 2025 |
Destruction, Disempowerment, and Dispossession: Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza
Once Israel’s war in the territory is brought to an end, the foundational principles guiding reconstruction should be Palestinian self-determination, local agency, and sovereignty.
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Israel’s war against Gaza has devastated Palestinian life there and destroyed the territory’s political economy and infrastructure.
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‘The Biggest Climate Case in History’ behind ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change |
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By :by Martina Igini, Earth.Org |
| 22 July 2025 |
On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will present its long-awaited advisory opinion on the obligations of countries under international law in respect of climate change.
The ruling could have a consequential impact on climate action worldwide, opening up the possibility that international climate commitments can be legally enforced
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الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال
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25 October 2025 |
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt
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30 May 2025 |
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Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings
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21 May 2025 |
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Reparation Bibliography
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06 May 2025 |
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
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23 April 2025 |
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Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya
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07 April 2025 |
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How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
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01 April 2025 |
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Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)
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20 February 2025 |
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بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون
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07 October 2024 |
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Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change
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21 November 2023 |
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Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
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21 March 2023 |
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Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
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06 January 2023 |
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Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
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27 December 2022 |
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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
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09 December 2022 |
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Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa
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30 November 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)
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21 September 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (جبر الضرر)
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20 September 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)
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20 September 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)
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18 September 2022 |
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مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية
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18 September 2022 |
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How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB
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07 September 2022 |
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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice
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20 May 2022 |
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Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
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16 March 2022 |
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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review
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31 January 2022 |
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Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole
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07 January 2022 |
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التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن
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28 January 2021 |
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تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
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How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan
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09 December 2020 |
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Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report
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08 December 2020 |
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"A Pandemic of Violations"
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05 October 2020 |
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Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid
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16 September 2020 |
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Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid
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01 September 2020 |
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لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير
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13 July 2020 |
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Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond
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13 July 2020 |
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Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court
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29 April 2020 |
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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
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20 December 2019 |
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بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة
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20 December 2019 |
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Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat
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06 September 2019 |
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Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!
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30 April 2019 |
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Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18
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30 April 2019 |
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Nuremberg judgments
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10 December 2018 |
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ICTY judgments
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10 December 2018 |
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Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence
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05 December 2018 |
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Process from Problem to Solution (graphic)
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12 November 2018 |
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Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga
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06 June 2018 |
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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
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06 May 2018 |
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Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
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التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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30 October 2017 |
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Land Forum VI program
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25 October 2017 |
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The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report
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01 August 2017 |
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
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Habitat III Statement
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20 October 2016 |
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Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool
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28 August 2016 |
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Eviction Impact Assessment Tool
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27 August 2016 |
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What Papua New Guinea Said
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26 July 2016 |
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Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
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HIC @ Habitat III
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23 June 2016 |
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Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement
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29 April 2016 |
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Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)
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31 January 2016 |
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The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response
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14 January 2016 |
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"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21
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04 December 2015 |
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Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises
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15 October 2015 |
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إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة
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15 October 2015 |
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HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
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National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool
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20 July 2015 |
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Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates
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11 May 2015 |
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أساسيات الموئل الثالث
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16 April 2015 |
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Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
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Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle
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19 December 2014 |
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“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”
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01 September 2014 |
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ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles
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11 July 2013 |
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Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya
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01 December 2012 |
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Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)
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21 May 2012 |
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Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :
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02 February 2010 |
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Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)
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28 December 2009 |
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United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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02 October 2007 |
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Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones
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02 October 2007 |
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Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas
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02 October 2007 |
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Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
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Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
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المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية
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05 February 2007 |
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Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
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Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
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Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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21 November 2006 |
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The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life
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16 May 2006 |
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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
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21 March 2006 |
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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
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21 March 2006 |
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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
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21 March 2006 |
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Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17
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28 June 2005 |
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رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17
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28 June 2005 |
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Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)
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20 June 2005 |
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Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)
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20 June 2005 |
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Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)
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20 June 2005 |
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Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28
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16 April 2004 |
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European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City
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18 May 2000 |
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”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
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22 June 1999 |
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إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية
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29 May 1995 |
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NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages
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16 June 1992 |
