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Western Sahara: A Record Few Phosphate Importers
By :WSRW
26 June 2025
WSRW report: Record low number of phosphate importers     For the twelfth year in a row, WSRW publishes a detailed, annual overview of the companies involved in the purchase of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.   Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has never before recorded as few clients of phosphate rock from occupied Western
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The “Arab Belt” Project in Syria: 51 Years of Structural Discrimination and Denial of Justice
By :hevdesti.org
24 June 2025
A Facts Sheet Marking the Passage of 51 Years Since the Launch of the Discriminatory Project on June 24, 1974. On this day, June 24, 1974, the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party issued Decision No. 521, officially launching what became known as the “Arab Belt” Project—one of the
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Alarming Land Degradation in the Arab Region
By :FAO
17 June 2025
Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation — over 46 million hectares — are agricultural land. Rome - A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed concerning levels of agricultural land degradation, particularly in the Arab region, where more than 46 million hectares of
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review
30 May 2025

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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria
By :HIC-HLRN, Together for the Protection of the Human and the Environment (Iraq), Insight (Syria), Dibeen Association for Environmental Development (Jordan)
30 May 2025

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Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain
By :HIC-AL and the Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), with HIC-GS, HIC-MENA and HIC-HLRN
30 May 2025

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Environmental Struggle in the Middle East and North Africa: A Research Agenda
By :Julia Choucair, Arab Reform Initiative
09 May 2025
Environmental struggle is increasingly salient in the Arab region. From protests over land use in Egypt or fracking in Algeria, to garbage handling in Lebanon and Tunisia, to water mismanagement in Iraq and Morocco, we have witnessed the rise of environmental mobilization born out of environmental harm and degradation. In
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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights
By :Oakland Institute
30 April 2025
  Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights   A new report exposes the exploitation of the climate crisis by the World Bank to advance a global land grab agenda for corporate interests that will fuel dispossession across the Global South. Under the guise of accessing land for climate action, the
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Documents (123)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

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

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

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

27 October 2024

سبل معالجة النزوح الناجم عن تغير المناخ والنزاعات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا- يونيو 2024

27 October 2024

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Climate Finance in Egypt (table)

10 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 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 (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

18 September 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV

07 September 2022

UN system practices for selected agencies, funds and programmes

15 June 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction

20 May 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 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

Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW

20 January 2022

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

07 January 2022

New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen

24 October 2021

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

24 October 2021

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

24 October 2021

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

The GLTN Approach to Land

24 February 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 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

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

28 January 2021

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

28 January 2021

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 December 2020

Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip

10 November 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

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

04 October 2020

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

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

16 September 2020

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

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

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Milestones in UN Habitat’s Cooperation with Stakeholders: Forward and Backward

14 May 2019

Charting UN Habitat-Stakeholder Engagement

14 May 2019

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

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

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

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

23 April 2018

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

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

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 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

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 2017

المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة

23 January 2017

The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

28 October 2016

Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool

28 August 2016

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

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

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

01 June 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 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

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon

01 September 2015

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

07 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report

15 June 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

National Habitat III Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and Civil Society Participation

12 March 2015

Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”

11 March 2015

HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire

15 November 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

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

01 September 2014

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

01 September 2014

Abu Ghalib Village Reparations

16 March 2014

ACIJ دراسات الحالة

06 September 2013

دراسة حالة سمارتان

06 September 2013

ETOs and Transnational Corruption

11 July 2013

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

11 July 2013

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

15 June 2008

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3

06 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

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7

11 May 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

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

11 March 2005

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 2003

“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”

05 May 2003

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

”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

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

Christopher M. Goebel, “A Unified Concept of Population Transfer”

01 October 1993

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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