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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 23 August 2024 |
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Gaza HLP Landscape Mapping Survey Report - July 2024 |
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By :UN HLP Technical Working Group |
| 01 August 2024 |
The Gaza Strip continues to face significant Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) challenges stemming from protracted conflict, legal complexities, and resource constraints. This report presents the preliminary findings from the July 2024 Gaza HLP Landscape Mapping Survey, conducted by the HLP Technical Working Group (TWG).
The survey engaged UN agencies, NGOs,
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Iraq: Idlib Camps Face ‘Harsh Summer’ without Sanitation Services |
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By :Afaf Jakmour and Abd Almajed Alkarh, Syria Direct |
| 07 May 2024 |
Idlib camps face ‘harsh summer’ after losing sanitation services
Waste is piling up in 194 displacement camps in Syria`s northwestern Idlib province after three humanitarian organizations stopped providing sanitation and water services at the start of the year. As summer approaches, some 200,000 residents fear the spread of disease.
IDLIB — Two
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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MENA Civil Society Assesses SDG Progress |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 16 March 2022 |
HIC-HLRN participated with Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) in the “Regional CSO Forum on Sustainable Development,” on 13–14 March 2022 at Beirut, Lebanon. The gathering of diverse policy analysts representing the Middle East/North Africa region’s civil society covered the range of contemporary development issues represented in the Sustainable-development Goals
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Responsibility for Single-use Plastic |
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By :Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times |
| 18 May 2021 |
Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic
A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.
The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen
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Land Times issue 20 |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 08 August 2020 |
HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) welcomes you to its 20th issue of Land Times. This milestone edition emphasizes the role of civil society in identifying and remedying housing and land rights problems in the context of a global pandemic.
Amid this protracted crisis, events and developments in the Middle
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Reporting on Housing Rights in Lebanon |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 09 July 2020 |
Today, civil society organizations concerned with the crisis in Lebanon have submitted analysis of the human rights situation there to the UN Human Rights Council. This outpouring of critical assessment comes in preparation for Lebanon’s upcoming 3rd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the country’s human rights performance, which will take
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Remunicipalizing Our Cities |
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By :Dan Hancox, The Guardian |
| 19 January 2020 |
From sparkling water fountains to better waste services and lower drug prices, cities are showing the benefits of remunicipalisation In 2015, a strident editorial appeared in Global Water Intelligence, a trade magazine for the water industry, under the title: Exorcising the “R” word. “It would be a travesty,”
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Palestine: NGOs Watch, Work with New Gov`t. |
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By :Ahmad Melhem, al-Monitor |
| 07 June 2019 |
In the absence of the Legislative Council, nongovernmental organizations will help evaluate the new Palestinian government, its transparency and its efforts to improve communication with the public.
RAMALLAH, West Bank—A coalition of 70 nongovernmental organizations is monitoring the performance of the new Palestinian government to gauge its social accountability in the absence
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