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Statement: Israel Bans UNRWA, the Palestinian People`s Lifeline
30 October 2024
Israel Bans UNRWA, Gaza’s Lifeline: Latest Move in Ongoing Campaign Against the Palestinian People and Their Right of Return   On 28 October 2024, the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) nearly unanimously passed two laws explicitly designed to disrupt the operations and essential services of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
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ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Rafah Offensive
By :Alexandra Sharp, Foreign Policy
24 May 2024
ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Its Rafah Offensive This is the first time that the World Court has explicitly told Israel to halt military actions in Gaza.     The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to stop its assault on Rafah in southern Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive has forced some 800,000
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New Report: Counting Costs, Losses & Damage
By :HIC-HLRN
18 February 2024
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this report 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
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Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 29 Now Online
By :HIC-HLRN
21 September 2023
The current Issue 29 of Land Times /أحوال الأرض  seeks to fill some of the gaps in current discourse on the most pressing issues facing the human habitat. It looks beyond contradictions between words and actions to identify the applicable norms that are often forgotten and the need for data,
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UN Experts: International Community Must Act to End Israel’s Annexation of Palestine
By :OHCHR
26 July 2023
International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank would break international law – UN experts call on the international community to ensure accountability   GENEVA—The international community must take steps to
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Palestine: Save Wadi Fuqin
02 April 2023
Michael Yoshii started this petition While the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recently issued a statement opposing Israel`s settlement activity, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-council-oks-watered-down-statement-on-israel-settlements/ar-AA17JQgO settlement expansion and infrastructure development continue unabated on the ground.  A prime example is the January 2023 announcement of land confiscation orders on 207 dunams (50 acres) of Palestinian land in the West
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Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters
By :HIC-HLRN
22 February 2023
Cairo, 22 February 2023 Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters     HIC-HLRN is deeply saddened by the massive and widespread destruction, loss of tens of thousands of lives, and the displacement, dispossession and homelessness of millions by two devastating magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 Mw earthquakes that struck southeastern Türkiye and northwest Syria on
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Urgent Action South Africa: Ayanda Ngila Murdered
By :HIC-HLRN
16 March 2022
HIC-HLRN call for urgent action on the murder of land defender Ayanda Ngila     Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN), with its member organizations across the African continent, the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, stands in solidarity with those grieving the murder of South African land rights defender
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Crowborough letter
By :HIC-HLRN
25 February 2021

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UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
By :HIC-HLRN
21 December 2020
After the standard 60-day embargo on releasing such communications, the 12 October joint letter of seven UN Special Rapporteurs (SRs) to the Israeli government is now public. The SRs on adequate housing, cultural rights, human rights defenders, the rights of indigenous peoples, the human rights of internally displaced persons, minority
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Crowborough letter

25 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

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities

11 October 2016

Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities

11 October 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

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