News (10)
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With Full Purpose and Intent: Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians in Their Home, Refuge and Displacement |
29 November 2024 |
On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HIC-HLRN is sharing the most-recent products of its monitoring and documentation of the Indigenous People’s housing and land rights violations, abuses that form the heart of the Zionist colonial project. By invasion, acquisition of territory through force and deception, violent More...
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Reflecting on World Urban Forum 12 |
By :HIC-GS |
21 November 2024 |
This report by the HIC General Secretariat reflects on the events, activities, collaborations and commemorations of Coalition Members and friends at the 12th World Urban Forum, Cairo, 4-8 November 2024.
HIC Events
Social and feminist movement convergence around social production of habitat, with contributions by Massa Kone, HIC Board Representative for Social Movements, More...
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Israel accused of `domicide` as it flattens homes in Gaza and Lebanon |
By :Anjana Sankar, The National |
05 November 2024 |
Israel accused of `domicide` as it flattens homes in Gaza and Lebanon
Campaign is on to include the systematic destruction of homes as a crime against humanity
Israel’s recent destruction of villages in southern Lebanon, similar to its “industrial scale” demolition of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, constitutes "domicide" and should be treated More...
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UN Experts: `Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers that threaten their olive harvest` |
By :OHCHR |
22 October 2024 |
Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers that threaten their olive harvest, say UN experts
GENEVA (16 October 2024) – Palestinian farmers in Israeli-occupied West Bank are facing the most dangerous olive season ever, UN experts* said today.
The intimidation of farmers, restriction of access to lands, severe harassment and More...
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Year of Disregard for International Law: UN Experts Urge Accountability, End of Violence |
By :OHCHR |
07 October 2024 |
UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law
GENEVA—Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence to the rest of the More...
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New Report: Breaking the cycle: Ending the criminalization of homelessness and poverty |
By :OHCHR |
26 July 2024 |
Breaking the cycle: Ending the criminalization of homelessness and poverty
The UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing have issued a new study. It explains why the criminalization of persons experiencing homelessness or poverty is not a suitable solution More...
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Gaza: UN Experts Deplore AI Use to Commit ‘Domicide’ |
By :OHCHR |
15 April 2024 |
Gaza: UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding
GENEVA—UN experts today deplored the purported use of artificial intelligence (AI) and related military directives by Israel in occupied Gaza leading to an unprecedented toll on the civilian population, housing, vital services More...
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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 More...
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‘Domicide’ Should Be a Crime against Humanity |
By :Balakrishnan Rajagopal, The New York Times |
29 January 2024 |
Domicide: The Mass Destruction of Homes Should Be a Crime Against Humanity
Dr. Rajagopal is the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. Ms. Baker’s home was destroyed in the war in Gaza.
The widespread or systematic destruction of homes has long been a feature of modern warfare. But what More...
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HLRN Statement: States Must Act for Peace with Justice in Palestine, not with Zionism |
By :HIC-HLRN |
24 November 2023 |
This statement updates the HIC Statement of 23 October 2023.
Amid the most-recent escalation of violence in Zionism’s century-long persecution of the Indigenous Palestinian People, the Palestinian Islamist Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its militant `Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched an unprecedented armed operation, retaliating against Israel on early 7 October 2023. More...
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Publication Date |
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
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06 January 2023 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)
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18 September 2022 |
SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR
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07 April 2021 |
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
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21 December 2020 |
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
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21 December 2020 |
"A Pandemic of Violations"
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05 October 2020 |
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49
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07 August 2015 |
دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49
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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
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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
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04 August 2015 |
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
El papel de las autoridades locales y otros niveles subnacionales de gobierno, A/HRC/28/62
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22 December 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
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30 December 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
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24 December 2012 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
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
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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
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17 June 2002 |
Déclaration sur les villes et autres établissements humains en ce nouveau millénaire, S-25/2
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11 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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11 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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09 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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09 June 2001 |
Expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77
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10 March 1993 |
Desalojamientos forzosos, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77
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10 March 1993 |