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New Report: Counting Costs, Loss & Damage |
By :HIC-HLRN |
16 February 2024 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this newreport from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) Counting Costs, Loss & Damage: Quantifying Impacts of Habitat-related Human Rights Violations amid Environmental Hazards and Climate-change selects cases of housing and land rights violations from HLRN’s 2022 report, In Pursuit of Climate Justice, to focus More...
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Call for Applications: Climate Justice & Social Production of Habitat |
By :Habitat International Coalition |
26 March 2023 |
If you are a HIC Member and have practical, learning or teaching experience in climate justice or social production of habitat (SPH), please apply to join a group of facilitators for the co-learning spaces on Climate Justice and SPH.
What is a co-learning space? Co-learning spaces are cross-regional, multi-session encounters that More...
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Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism |
By :Rania Muhareb, Elizabeth Rghebi, Pearce Clancy, Joseph Schechla, Nada Awad and Maha Abdallah |
29 November 2022 |
On 29 November 2022, HIC-HLRN joined Al-Haq in launching the inaugural coalition report titled: ‘Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism’. Together leading Palestinian civil society organisations, Al-Haq Law in the Service of Man (Al-Haq), Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer), Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al More...
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Palestine/Israel: Solar Plant on Bedouin Land |
By :Middle East Monitor |
28 June 2022 |
Israel to build first solar plant on Bedouin land
A unique agreement with the State offers a Bedouin tribe in the south of Israel real ownership of its land, enabling it to rent out space for the construction of a giant solar plant.
Land ownership is still one of the most pressing More...
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Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction |
By :Africities9 CSO Forum |
20 May 2022 |
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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice |
By :Africities9 CSO Forum |
20 May 2022 |
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HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board |
By :Habitat International Coalition |
16 November 2021 |
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Israel Demolish al-Araqib Village for 186th Time |
By :20 April 2021 |
29 April 2021 |
Israeli Forces Demolish al-Araqib Village for 186th Time
Israeli forces again demolished on Monday a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region, Anadolu Agency reported.
Israeli forces demolished al-Araqib village for the 186th time despite the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Aziz al-Touri, a member of the Committee More...
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New Study: 1 in 4 Arabs Live in Fear of Eviction |
By :Prindex |
23 February 2021 |
1 in 4 people in the Arab world live in fear of eviction – new study
A study published today by the property rights index Prindex finds that 24% of people living in the Arab region fear eviction. This represents 52 million people across the 13 Arabic-speaking countries surveyed and one of More...
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Saving Palestine’s Terraced Gardens |
By :Nadi Abusaada, The Architectural Review |
11 February 2021 |
Palestine’s garden walls: the deliberate destruction of Palestine’s terraced gardens
A desire is growing to mitigate the harm inflicted on the cherished terraced gardens and communities of Palestine
At almost every turn in Palestine’s central highlands, from Hebron to Nazareth, a distinctive typology of garden can be seen. This typology, however, does More...
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