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Interrogating UN Contracts with Israel-complicit Companies

By :Arshi Qureshi, Pass Blue

20 August 2025

UN Contracts with Companies Doing Business in Israel May Violate Ethics Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, is arguably the organization’s most outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. An Italian international-law scholar appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2022, Albanese has warned in social
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UN Report Exposes Corporate Forces behind Destruction of Palestine

By :UN News

04 July 2025

GENEVA – Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a UN expert warned today in a new report to the Human Rights Council that reveals how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel’s illegal presence and actions. “In the past
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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

By :OHCHR

22 June 2025

Purpose: To inform the report to be presented to the General Assembly in October 2025 for the 80th Session (UNGA80). Background The groundbreaking Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem by the International
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Call for Input: Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda Implementation

By :OHCHR

22 June 2025

Call for Input for the report on best practices, challenges and lessons learned concerning integrated approaches to the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the global level Deadline :30 June 2025 Purpose: To inform the report on best practices, challenges and lessons learned concerning integrated
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5 June 1967 Anniversary amid Israel`s Consistent Violation of International Law

By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh, Land Research Center

05 June 2025

Introduction The Israeli occupation state has emerged through repeated initiatives by colonial powers seeking political and economic control over the Arab region (West Asia and North Africa). In 1799, after the defeat of his armies at the walls of Acre and their failure to occupy Palestine and the Levant, the French
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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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UN Experts Demand Morocco Stop Demolishing Occupied Sahrawi Homes

By :WSRW

02 June 2025

Eight UN rapporteurs call on Morocco to stop tearing down Saharawi property as the Kingdom expands green energy projects in occupied Western Sahara. In a statement published last week, eight UN Special Rapporteurs have denounced Morocco’s ongoing campaign of repression, racial discrimination, and violence against Sahrawi human rights defenders, journalists, and
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt

By :Diwan Al-Omran

30 May 2025

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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

By :HIC-HLRN, Together for the Protection of the Human and the Environment (Iraq), Insight (Syria), Dibeen Association for Environmental Development (Jordan)

30 May 2025

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Documents (129)

Document Title	Publication Date
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review	30 May 2025
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil	30 May 2025
Reparation Bibliography	06 May 2025
Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)	23 April 2025
Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era	10 March 2025
Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change	21 November 2023
General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change	22 August 2023
General comment No. 26 (2022) on land and economic, social and cultural rights*	24 January 2023
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food	09 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)	18 September 2022
Evolving ETOs	16 June 2022
Joint statement to HRC on CoI Palestine report	13 June 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction	20 May 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing	20 May 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on social justice	20 May 2022
Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara	16 March 2022
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review	31 January 2022
Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW	20 January 2022
Joint Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women	20 January 2022
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole	07 January 2022
HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board	16 November 2021
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire	18 October 2021
Un derecho humano a la tierra	05 August 2021
حق الإنسان في الأرض	18 June 2021
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR	07 April 2021
A Human Right to Land	24 February 2021
الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان	24 February 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip	10 November 2020
"A Pandemic of Violations"	05 October 2020
Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid	16 September 2020
Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid	01 September 2020
What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara	19 September 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
UN: Eroding the Human Rights Treaty System	21 June 2019
HIC Open Letter to UN Leadership	21 June 2019
WLH Kampala Workshop Report	14 May 2019
Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!	30 April 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Transmission letter to Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen	22 November 2018
SDG Land Indicators	01 September 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	26 January 2018
Land Forum VI program	25 October 2017
Commentary on the High Level Independent Panel`s Report to Assess and Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat (summary)	05 September 2017
Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System	21 August 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
Human rights in cities and other human settlements, A/HRC/35/L.30/Rev.1	23 June 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
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3	28 April 2017
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition	24 January 2017
Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs	20 January 2017
بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334	28 December 2016
General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women	07 March 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
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	15 October 2015
“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270	04 August 2015
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, A/70/270	04 August 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report	15 June 2015
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Turkey, A/HRC/29/15	13 April 2015
الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية لضمان الاستدامة لمصائد الأسماك صغيرة النطاق في سياق الأمن الغذائي والقضاء على الفقر	03 March 2015
HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire	15 November 2014
تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن	05 August 2014
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation: Mission to Jordan	05 August 2014
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, A/HRC/25/54	30 December 2013
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik, Mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, A/HRC/22/4	24 December 2012
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
"تقرير الخبيرة المستقلة المعنية بمسألة التزامات حقوق الإنسان المتعلقة بالحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى مصر"	10 July 2010
Report of SR related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation Mission to Egypt July 2010	05 July 2010
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City	01 July 2010
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث	22 May 2010
Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory	01 April 2010
مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف	24 March 2009
Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2	24 March 2009
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3	06 June 2008
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
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
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7	11 May 2006
قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16	11 August 2005
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)	11 March 2005
Prohibition of forced evictions, 2004/28	16 April 2004
Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28	16 April 2004
حظر الإخلاء القسري، 2004/28	16 April 2004
Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28	16 April 2004
Prohibition of forced evictions, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28	16 April 2004
Institutionalized Discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon	01 March 2004
General Comment No. 15 (2002), The right to water	20 January 2003
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1	17 June 2002
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1	17 June 2002
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
Assessing the gains and losses of Istanbul+5	24 June 2001
"Back to the Future," statement before the General Assembly Special Session Habitat II+5 Review	07 April 2001
“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
”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 June 1999
مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
اللجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 7 "حالة إخلاء المساكن بالإكراه"	20 May 1997
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 7, The right to housing: "forced evictions"	20 May 1997
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/77 "forced evictions"	10 March 1993
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4 "The right to housing"	13 December 1991
Comité de los derechos economicos, sociales y culturales, Observación general Nº 4, El derecho a una vivienda adecuada	13 December 1991
Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4	13 December 1991
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
Realization of the right to adequate housing, A/RES/42/146	07 December 1987
Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	06 June 1986
Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories	21 April 1978

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