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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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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Israeli Settlers Encroach on West Bank Herders’ Grazing Land
By :Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie; additional reporting by Joyce Zhou in Ein al-Auja; editing by Peter Graff, Reuters
18 April 2025
Herders under growing pressure as West Bank settlers encroach on grazing land     Summary   Israeli shepherd outposts take 14% of West Bank, report says Herding communities under growing economic pressure Grazing land targeted by settlers     AL-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank—Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing
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Humanitarians in Gaza: “Let us do our jobs!”
By :Various aid agencies
17 April 2025
“Let us do our jobs” — CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing   After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of
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Israel’s Designs for Jenin…beyond Destruction
By :Majd Jawad, +972
16 April 2025
Israel’s Designs for Jenin…beyond Destruction Majd Jawad, +972  16 April 2025   Israel’s designs for Jenin refugee camp are about more than just destruction After being expelled from their homes, residents watch from afar as the army re-engineers the camp to inhibit resistance and undermine the right of return.     For almost three months, Jenin refugee camp
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Israeli Settlers Commit over 5,350 Violations in Occupied West Bank since 2015
By :TRT World & Agencies
21 March 2025
Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in occupied West Bank in past decade: Report The report details a wide range of illegal settler violations, including stone-throwing at Palestinians, their homes, and vehicles, as well as arson attacks targeting houses, businesses, farms, and other private properties.     Israeli settlers commit over 5,350 violations in
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UNSG Reports on Implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016)
By :UN
21 March 2025
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016), 21 March 2025  [As Delivered]   Madam President,   Members of the Security Council,   Today’s briefing is devoted to the thirty-third report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016). It covers the period from 7 December to 13
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Israel’s West Bank Outposts Proliferate since 7 October 2023, Palestinians Fear Annexation
By :Allegra Goodwin, Nada Bashir and Gianluca Mezzofiore, with contributions by Kareem Khadder/CNN
20 March 2025
Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next       BARDALA, West Bank—Jihad Suleiman al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, al-Sawafta said
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Documents (148)

Document Title

Publication Date

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

Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021

30 August 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 to the United Nations Special Procedures on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory

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

Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020

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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