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Israel Seizes 64 Dunams for Settler Colony
By :Middle East Monitor
16 April 2024
Israel seizes 64 dunams in southern West Bank to establish a settlement     The Israeli Occupation authorities have issued a military decision to seize 64 dunums (64,000 square metres) of citizens’ land in al-Bouira area, north of the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, in order to establish a
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Israeli Firms Selling Stolen Palestinian Land to US Jews
By :Middle East Monitor
15 April 2024
Israeli Firms Are Working Overtime to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land to US Jews The real estate events peddling land in Israeli settlements in the West Bank appear to flout US and international law.     “Your chance to own a piece of the Holy Land!” exclaims the cheerful advertising copy on a real estate website aimed
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Israelis Dream to Colonize Lebanon
By :L’Orient Today
12 April 2024
Who is this `small group` of Israelis who dream of colonizing southern Lebanon? The group claiming to occupy part of Lebanon is described as "tiny" and among the "extremists` extremists" by Haaretz.     There are not many of them, and even the most extreme Israeli officials do not support their demand, but that
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Kushner Eyes Gaza Real Estate, Incites Population Transfer Crimes
22 March 2024
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there     Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.   The
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Kushner Eyes Gaza Real Estate, Incites Population Transfer Crimes
22 March 2024
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there     Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.   The
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Palestine: Why West Bank Settler Pogroms Surge
By :Menachem Klein, +972 mag, in partnership with Local Call
26 June 2023
Why settler pogroms are now sweeping the West Bank Frustrated at the military`s pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary.   Sometimes there is an event so extreme that it tears the veil of willful ignorance from the eyes of Jewish-Israeli society. The pogrom in Huwara last February,
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New York Law Aims to Stop Funding of Israeli Colonies
By :Chris McGreal, The Guardian
17 May 2023
New York law aims to stop funding of illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank State assembly member introduced law to prohibit tax-deductible donations from being used to expel Palestinians from their land     New York’s state assembly is to consider legislation to stop registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars a
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UN Marks 75 Years of Palestinian Displacement
By :UN
15 May 2023
UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians     The UN on Monday commemorated for the first time in its history, the mass displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel, 75 years ago, that turned 700,000 Palestinians into refugees, almost overnight.     The mass displacement in 1948, known as the
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EU Commission Defies Court’s Western Sahara Ruling
By :WSRW
07 February 2023
EU Commission continues to disregard EU Court The EU Commission has authored a new report detailing how Moroccan settlers benefit from a trade agreement that has been found illegal by the EU Court of Justice multiple times.   Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has got access to a highly controversial document, dated 13
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Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism
By :HIC-HLRN
01 September 2022

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Documents (41)

Document Title

Publication Date

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

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

07 January 2022

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

24 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19

05 October 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

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

30 July 2020

The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights

20 July 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 2020

Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT

22 October 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 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

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Reporte National de México para Hábitat III

20 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)

19 December 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

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

30 June 2011

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

30 September 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade

01 March 2000

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123

14 December 1984

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)

01 June 1967

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