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Western Sahara: A Record Few Phosphate Importers

By :WSRW

26 June 2025

WSRW report: Record low number of phosphate importers For the twelfth year in a row, WSRW publishes a detailed, annual overview of the companies involved in the purchase of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara. Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has never before recorded as few clients of phosphate rock from occupied Western
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The “Arab Belt” Project in Syria: 51 Years of Structural Discrimination and Denial of Justice

By :hevdesti.org

24 June 2025

A Facts Sheet Marking the Passage of 51 Years Since the Launch of the Discriminatory Project on June 24, 1974. On this day, June 24, 1974, the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party issued Decision No. 521, officially launching what became known as the “Arab Belt” Project—one of the
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Harvard Study Finds Israel ‘Disappeared’ Nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Half of them Children

By :The Cradle

24 June 2025

Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023 A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians
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Palestine: Final Ruling for the Eviction of Three Families

By :Peacenow.org

23 June 2025

Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein summarily rejected yesterday (June 22, 2025) the appeal of the Um Nasser Rajabi family (18 people) and ruled that they must [vacate] their home, where they have lived since the 1970s, in favor of settlers. The ruling followed Justice Solberg’s decision last week (16 June
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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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Palestine: Israel to Wipe out 12 Villages, Home to about 2,800 People, in Masafer Yatta

By :The Villages Group, on behalf of the South Hebron Hills Communities

19 June 2025

Dear friends, We are reaching out to you with an urgent call for help, out of a deep sense of responsibility toward our friends in Masafer Yatta, whom we have accompanied for many years in their struggle to survive on their land. They need your assistance. Below we will explain how
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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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Alarming Land Degradation in the Arab Region

By :FAO

17 June 2025

Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation — over 46 million hectares — are agricultural land. Rome - A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed concerning levels of agricultural land degradation, particularly in the Arab region, where more than 46 million hectares of
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Israeli War on Iran: Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed

By :Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages

14 June 2025

Israeli War on Iran: Jewish Nationals’ Wartime Shelter, Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed Tonight, in the Palestinian “unrecognized villages” of the Naqab, hundreds of families are sleeping in fear, with no shelter to protect them from the missiles above. They are taking refuge in school buildings. Some are sleeping under the open sky. Others,
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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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Documents (159)

Document Title	Publication Date
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain	30 May 2025
تقرير مركز أبحاث الأراضي، بمناسبة ذكرى النكبة السابع والسبعين- 2025	18 May 2025
On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe	15 May 2025
في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد	15 May 2025
Reparation Bibliography	06 May 2025
Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era	10 March 2025
أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية	10 March 2025
استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)	09 March 2025
Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)	20 February 2025
Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024	27 October 2024
بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون	07 October 2024
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	21 March 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
ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS	23 October 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)	18 September 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 women`s political leadership	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
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
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 February 2021
HIC Women in Africa PPT	10 February 2021
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	28 January 2021
Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid	28 January 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 December 2020
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 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
لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير	13 July 2020
Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond	13 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Statement on the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the Situation in Palestine, and seeking a ruling on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction	20 December 2019
بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة	20 December 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
WLH Kampala Workshop Report	14 May 2019
Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!	30 April 2019
Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18	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
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 December 2018
Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen	22 November 2018
Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia	30 September 2018
SDG Land Indicators	01 September 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
Dubai Declaration on Land Governance in the Arab States	26 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
"No hunger on earth as of today"	21 February 2018
ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى	17 November 2017
Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut	17 November 2017
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
Land Forum VI program	25 October 2017
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	25 October 2017
Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System	21 August 2017
SDG 6	18 July 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต	19 June 2017
دور البلديات: الصلاحيات القانونية والممارسات	15 June 2017
تحديات الإقامة الكريمة في ظل ممارسات البلديات	15 June 2017
تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت	15 June 2017
الإطار الحقوقي لمبادرة الحق في المدينة	14 June 2017
الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي	14 June 2017
الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى	14 June 2017
Right to the city: practical application in other cities	14 June 2017
Local Government Role: legal mandate & practices	14 June 2017
Review & discussion on the initial draft of Beirut City Charter	14 June 2017
Sanctuary in the City: Beirut	14 June 2017
“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut	24 May 2017
Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017	05 May 2017
الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي	15 March 2017
المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة	23 January 2017
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334	28 December 2016
بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334	28 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)	23 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar	23 December 2016
برنامج ورشة العمل الأولى لمشروع الملجأ في المدينة،بيروت	21 December 2016
ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت	21 December 2016
الحكومات المحلية والمجتمعات المستضيفة تجاه أزمة اللاجئين، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت	21 December 2016
The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)	20 December 2016
الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى	20 December 2016
دور البلديات والممارسات المحلية في تطبيق ميثاق الحق في المدينة	20 December 2016
دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان	20 December 2016
مبادئ حقوق الإنسان وتطبيق الحق في المدينة في لبنان	20 December 2016
مقدمة عن مشروع لبنان وورش العمل	17 August 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study	03 June 2016
Sanctuary in the City: Beirut	01 June 2016
Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)	24 May 2016
تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016	09 April 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
Growing Stress on Jordan by Council on Foreign Relations	17 March 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development	22 December 2015
Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region	23 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 2015
إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم	23 March 2015
Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle	19 December 2014
Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)	19 December 2014
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
إعلان مسقط الوزاري حول المعاهدة الدولية بشأن الموارد الوراثية النباتية للأغذية والزراعة	21 September 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
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)	21 May 2012
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)	21 May 2012
منتدى الأرض، الدورة الثالثة "الأرض وسيادة الشعوب وتقرير المصير"	17 January 2012
Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop	30 September 2011
The Goldberg Opportunity: A Chance for Human Rights-based Statecraft in Israel, Fact-finding Report No. 13	31 December 2010
الاتفاقية العربية لمكافحة الفساد، جامعة الدول العربية، 2010	12 December 2010
The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara	15 June 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
NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference	05 February 2010
إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا	03 July 2009
Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa	03 July 2009
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa	15 June 2008
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19	15 June 2006
Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)	11 March 2005
Informe del Relator Especial sobre una vivienda adecuada como elemento integrante del derecho a un n	03 March 2005
“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”	05 May 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
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة	24 October 2001
Synthesis of National Reports on the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda in the West Asia Region	01 September 2000
Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
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
The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa	10 September 1994
وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا	10 September 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
European Charter for Women in the City	01 March 1994
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
S/RES/501 (1982)	25 February 1982
S/RES/465 (1980)	01 March 1980
تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)	29 November 1947
Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States	26 December 1933
Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States	26 December 1933

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