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HIC-wide Inputs to UN Special Rapporteur Study on Land and Housing Rights
By :HIC-HLRN
03 June 2025
In response to a call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal, HIC Members and structures have provided six important inputs to the SR’s study on land and the right to housing. You can find these inputs at the following links: HLRN Global: “Land and the right to
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
20 June 2024
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction
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20 May 2022

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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice
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20 May 2022

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HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board
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16 November 2021

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Documents (58)

Document Title

Publication Date

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)

19 September 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board

16 November 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

09 July 2017

الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي

14 June 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 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

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

19 July 2016

Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III

02 February 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 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

Reporte National de México para Hábitat III

20 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Right Where You Live: A Glossary of Right-to-the-city Terms

01 January 2015

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

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

11 July 2013

المنتدى الحضري العالمي السادس: مستقبل المدن

09 July 2012

World Social Forum – Tunisia

04 July 2012

Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012

04 July 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

Land Forum III: "Land, People`s Sovereignty and Self-determination"

17 January 2012

منتدى الأرض، الدورة الثالثة "الأرض وسيادة الشعوب وتقرير المصير"

17 January 2012

Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop

30 September 2011

Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad

01 September 2011

The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (1)

18 July 2010

Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City

01 July 2010

السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث

22 May 2010

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

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

World Habitat Day, 2006 (HIC Press Release)

02 October 2006

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

World Charter for the Right to the City

30 September 2005

Carta Mundial pelo Direito à Cidade

30 September 2005

Função social da propriedade: análise histórica

31 August 2005

Urban Policies and the Right to the City Public Debate (discussion paper)

18 March 2005

In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar

31 December 2001

قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)

10 September 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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