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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Gaza Conditions ‘Unimaginable’ after 15 Months
By :Lorenzo Tondo and Malak A Tantesh, The Guardian
13 January 2025
Fifteen months of Israeli bombardment leave conditions in Gaza ‘unimaginable’ As hopes of a ceasefire grow, hunger and cold are adding to the suffering for the millions of Palestinians in the strip     Fifteen months into the war in Gaza, where more than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed and almost all of the population
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Humanitarian Aid to Gaza: ‘A drop in an ocean of need’
By :Doaa El-Bey, ahram.online
03 December 2024
‘A drop in an ocean of need’  Participants in a conference aiming to enhance humanitarian aid to Gaza underlined the importance of the role played by UNRWA     The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is “grossly insufficient, inconsistent and unpredictable — a drop in an ocean of need”, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina
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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia
By :HIC-HLRN
23 August 2024

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Gaza HLP Landscape Mapping Survey Report - July 2024
By :UN HLP Technical Working Group
01 August 2024
The Gaza Strip continues to face significant Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) challenges stemming from protracted conflict, legal complexities, and resource constraints. This report presents the preliminary findings from the July 2024 Gaza HLP Landscape Mapping Survey, conducted by the HLP Technical Working Group (TWG).   The survey engaged UN agencies, NGOs,
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Iraq: Idlib Camps Face ‘Harsh Summer’ without Sanitation Services
By :Afaf Jakmour and Abd Almajed Alkarh, Syria Direct
07 May 2024
Idlib camps face ‘harsh summer’ after losing sanitation services Waste is piling up in 194 displacement camps in Syria`s northwestern Idlib province after three humanitarian organizations stopped providing sanitation and water services at the start of the year. As summer approaches, some 200,000 residents fear the spread of disease.     IDLIB — Two
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA
By :Joseph Schechla
24 March 2022
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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MENA Civil Society Assesses SDG Progress
By :HIC-HLRN
16 March 2022
HIC-HLRN participated with Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) in the “Regional CSO Forum on Sustainable Development,” on 13–14 March 2022 at Beirut, Lebanon. The gathering of diverse policy analysts representing the Middle East/North Africa region’s civil society covered the range of contemporary development issues represented in the Sustainable-development Goals
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Responsibility for Single-use Plastic
By :Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times
18 May 2021
Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.     The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen
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Land Times issue 20
By :HIC-HLRN
08 August 2020
HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) welcomes you to its 20th issue of Land Times. This milestone edition emphasizes the role of civil society in identifying and remedying housing and land rights problems in the context of a global pandemic. Amid this protracted crisis, events and developments in the Middle
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Document Title

Publication Date

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities

23 June 2017

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States

01 January 2002

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

05 September 2000

Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14

14 June 1996

La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Agenda 21

14 June 1992

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

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