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New Global Coalition Urges Rights-Based Climate Relocation Policies
By :Erica Bower, Charlotte Finegold, Human Rights Watch
25 June 2025
Last week, Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global alliance working to ensure communities forced to plan relocations due to climate change can do so on their own terms and with dignity. Over two days in New York City, more than
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review
30 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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Sudan Takes UAE to World Court over `complicity in genocide`
By :Matt Spivey, BBC News/Reuters
06 March 2025
Sudan takes UAE to world court over `complicity in genocide` The [Sudanese Rapid Support Force] RSF has been accused of committing a genocide in Darfur - against the region`s non-Arabic groups   Sudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan`s paramilitary
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Sudan’s Civil War: Satellite Images Help Estimate Numbers Killed
By :Leslie Roberts, Science
26 February 2025
How many have died in Sudan’s civil war? Satellite images and models offer clues Barred from the country, researchers try to monitor death and destruction from afar     At Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, researchers are poring over satellite images and thermal sensing data captured over the Darfur region of Sudan over the
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The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights
09 August 2024

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Indigenous Peoples Demand a Just Transition
By :Right Energy Partnership
14 April 2024
Declaration of Indigenous Peoples’ Participants in the Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Just Transition New York, April 12–14, 2024     We, the 87 Indigenous Peoples’ representatives of the Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Just Transition, have convened to address the pressing issues surrounding the transition to renewable energy and its impacts on
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500 Palestinians Face Forced Eviction, Displacement and Segregation
By :AMnesty International
28 July 2023
Israel/oPt: 500 Palestinians facing forcible eviction, displacement, and segregation    An Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the forced eviction of 500 Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev/Naqab region, highlighting the deep discrimination that Palestinian citizens of Israel face under apartheid, Amnesty International said today. In a judgment issued on 27 July,
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KSA: Death Sentences Upheld for Resisting Neom Land Grab
24 January 2023
Death Sentences Upheld for Three Men Who Resisted Neom project On 23 January 2023, Saudi Arabia’s Specialised Criminal Court of Appeal upheld death sentences against three members of the Huwaitat tribe, Shadli, Ibrahim and Ataullah al-Huwaiti, in relation to their peaceful opposition to forced evictions and residents’ displacement for the state-led Neom megacity project. This ruling
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Land Governance Is Key to Implement 2030 Agenda
By :GeoConnexion
02 November 2022
Stig Enemark explains the concept of land governance and importance in supporting the 2030 global agenda. The term “land governance” is relatively new. It appeared in the early 2000s as an extension of the concept of “land management” to also include the aspect of governance and the political economy of land.
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Documents (45)

Document Title

Publication Date

The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights

09 August 2025

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

30 May 2025

La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits

09 August 2024

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 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

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond

13 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

The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต

19 June 2017

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود

28 May 2015

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa

03 July 2009

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

02 October 2007

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

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

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