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Palestine: Israel Revives E1 Plan amid Raids across West Bank

By :Al Jazeera Staff

06 August 2025

Israel pushes for more illegal settlements in occupied West Bank amid raids Plans to expand in the E1 area east of occupied East Jerusalem would bisect area and isolate Palestinian communities. Israeli authorities are moving forward with plans to dramatically expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite growing international condemnation and
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Government Announces Privatization of Water and Sanitation Company AySA

By :Buenos Aires Herald

18 July 2025

Private capitals will enter the company through a transference of 90% of its state-owned shares The government announced on Friday that it will begin the process of privatizing state-run water and sanitation company AySA (Spanish acronym for Argentine Waters and Sanitation). “Private capitals will step in through the transfer of 90%
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Palestine: Israel Revives Colonial Expansion Plans in E1, Occupied Jerusalem

By :International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)

14 July 2025

Israel Revives Colonial Expansion Plans in E1, Occupied Jerusalem After a pause since 2021, Israeli occupation authorities have reinitiated plans to expand illegal colonial construction in the E1 zone, located east of occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. A report published Monday by Israeli daily Haaretz indicates that the renewed effort threatens to
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First Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress, Vienna

By :HIC-HLRN

17 June 2025

As the world bears witness to the Western state governments indulge Israel`s genocide against the Palestinian people, activists of Jewish faith and background concluded their first Anti-Zionism Congress in Vienna, 13–16 June 2025. It met at the very crux of the matter. The host city of Vienna was symbolic also as
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Women in the Wake of Floods

By :Habitat Defenders Africa (HDA) and HIC-HLRN

10 June 2025

This report presents the outcomes of applying the Climate Change Impact-assessment and Justice Tool (CCIAJT) to produce community-led data on the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households in the 2025 flooding in Kosovo Informal Settlement, Kampala, Uganda. The enumeration exercise has resulted in a conservative estimate of €55,021 in
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Validation Meeting on CCIAJT Application Findings

By :HDA and HIC-HLRN

21 May 2025

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Water Apartheid in Palestine: The case of al-Hadidiya

By :HIC-HLRN

16 May 2025

Al-Hadidiya is a small Bedouin community in Palestine’s Israeli-occupied northern Jordan Valley, northwest of Jericho. It stands as a powerful symbol of Palestinian resilience in the face of Israel’s deliberate and systematic campaign to dispossess and expel its people. Despite being surrounded by abundant natural water resources, the forces of
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Learning from Morocco’s Climate Action Finance

11 May 2025

Climate change in Morocco is expected to significantly impact the country on many levels, as it does for other countries in the MENA region. As a coastal country with a hot and dry climate, the environmental impacts are likely to be broad and diverse. The impact of these environmental changes on
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Israel Pushing Gaza`s Entire Population South

By :Hamza Hendawi, The National

05 May 2025

Israel to push Gaza`s entire population south, laying path to resettlement Sources say new strategy amounts to a new `Nakba` Israel is planning to push the entire population of the Gaza Strip to a "safe zone" in the enclave`s south where it will distribute so little humanitarian aid that many Palestinians might opt to leave
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Iraq: Erbil`s Water Shortage Crisis

By :Winthrop Rodgers

29 April 2025

Erbil`s water shortage crisis: Iraqi Kurdistan`s capital city grapples with drought and climate change ahead of a scorching summer As Erbil braces for another scorching summer, the city’s water supply is running low, leaving residents desperate for solutions amid a worsening drought April skies over Erbil are often dark, dusty, and unsettled.
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Documents (148)

Document Title	Publication Date
Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings	21 May 2025
Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)	23 April 2025
Climate Finance Table - Tunisia	23 August 2024
Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	21 March 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)	20 September 2022
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB	07 September 2022
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان	23 April 2022
Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects	23 April 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
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole	07 January 2022
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire	18 October 2021
Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid	31 May 2021
الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان	24 February 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 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
جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19	05 October 2020
House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region	25 September 2020
Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses	30 July 2020
Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR	03 April 2020
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities	31 August 2019
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie	13 July 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
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency	02 July 2018
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 2018
"No hunger on earth as of today"	21 February 2018
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA	30 October 2017
التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	30 October 2017
SDG 6	18 July 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
Gains and Losses of Habitat III	09 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
ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต	19 June 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
المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة	23 January 2017
The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	28 October 2016
Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), A/CONF.226/4	29 September 2016
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016	10 September 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports	24 July 2016
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda	19 July 2016
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft	28 June 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence	19 March 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau	19 March 2016
General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women	07 March 2016
Recommandation générale No 34 sur les droits des femmes rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34	07 March 2016
Recomendación general núm. 34 (2016) sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34	07 March 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1	12 December 2015
اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1	12 December 2015
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC	18 November 2015
Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region	23 October 2015
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
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Reporte National de México para Hábitat III	20 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 2015
The private modes of water capture in Lebanon	01 September 2015
Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon	01 September 2015
“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
Rôle des administrations locales dans la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme, 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
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report	15 June 2015
"Toward a Global Alliance of Human Rights Cities for All II," Gwangju	17 May 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم	23 March 2015
Renaissance Dam Agreement on Declaration of Principles	23 March 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire	15 November 2014
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 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
إعلان مسقط الوزاري حول المعاهدة الدولية بشأن الموارد الوراثية النباتية للأغذية والزراعة	21 September 2013
Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya	01 December 2012
The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar	30 June 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
The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara	15 June 2010
NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference	05 February 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
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”	01 October 2008
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa	15 June 2008
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3	06 June 2008
United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples	02 October 2007
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
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني	27 February 2007
إعلان نييليني	27 February 2007
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7	11 May 2006
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration	09 March 2006
قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16	11 August 2005
التعليق العام رقم 15، الحق في الماء	20 January 2003
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
House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem	14 February 2002
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States	01 January 2002
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)	10 August 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	11 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	09 June 2001
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	05 September 2000
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 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
Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, done in London, on 17 June 1999.	17 June 1999
“Women’s access, control and tenure of land, property and settlement”	25 July 1998
Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, New York, 21 May 1997.	21 May 1997
اتفاقية قانون استخدام المجاري المائية الدولية في الأغراض غير الملاحية	21 May 1997
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14	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
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.	14 October 1994
اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا	14 October 1994
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.	14 October 1994
"إعلان ريو بشأن البيئة والتنمية"، "جدول أعمال القرن 21،" تقرير الأمم المتحدة المعني بالبيئة والتنمية، A / CONF.151 / 26 (المجلد الأول)	12 August 1992
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages	16 June 1992
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
Flood Control & Marine Pollution of Continental Origin, Institute of International Law, 55th Conference	17 August 1972
Right to the City in Greater Beirut p	01 January 1970
Regulation Governing Navigation on International Rivers, Resolution of Paris	19 October 1934
Convention relating to the Development of Hydraulic Power Affecting More Than One State and Protocol	17 March 1923
Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern	17 March 1921
Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern	17 March 1921
International Regulation regarding the Use of International Watercourses for Purposes other than Navigation- Declaration of Madrid, 20 April 1911	20 April 1911

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