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Year of Disregard for International Law: UN Experts Urge Accountability, End of Violence |
By :OHCHR |
07 October 2024 |
UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law
GENEVA—Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence to the rest of the More...
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Gaza: UN Experts Deplore AI Use to Commit ‘Domicide’ |
By :OHCHR |
15 April 2024 |
Gaza: UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding
GENEVA—UN experts today deplored the purported use of artificial intelligence (AI) and related military directives by Israel in occupied Gaza leading to an unprecedented toll on the civilian population, housing, vital services More...
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New Report: Counting Costs, Loss & Damage |
By :HIC-HLRN |
16 February 2024 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this newreport 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 More...
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‘Domicide’ Should Be a Crime against Humanity |
By :Balakrishnan Rajagopal, The New York Times |
29 January 2024 |
Domicide: The Mass Destruction of Homes Should Be a Crime Against Humanity
Dr. Rajagopal is the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. Ms. Baker’s home was destroyed in the war in Gaza.
The widespread or systematic destruction of homes has long been a feature of modern warfare. But what More...
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HLRN Statement: States Must Act for Peace with Justice in Palestine, not with Zionism |
By :HIC-HLRN |
24 November 2023 |
This statement updates the HIC Statement of 23 October 2023.
Amid the most-recent escalation of violence in Zionism’s century-long persecution of the Indigenous Palestinian People, the Palestinian Islamist Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its militant `Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched an unprecedented armed operation, retaliating against Israel on early 7 October 2023. More...
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Call for inputs: Resettlement as a human rights issue |
By :SR on adequate housing |
16 November 2023 |
Issued by
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
deadline
31 March 2024
Purpose: To inform the forthcoming reports of the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly in 2024
Objectives
There is multifold evidence that the right to adequate housing and other human rights are often violated due to eviction and More...
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Gaza: UN Experts Call on International Community to Act against Genocide of the Palestinian People |
By :OHCHR |
16 November 2023 |
Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people
GENEVA—Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to More...
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Gaza: UN SR Warns Destroying Civilian Housing and Infrastructure Is International Crime |
By :OHCHR |
08 November 2023 |
Gaza: Destroying civilian housing and infrastructure is an international crime, warns UN expert
GENEVA—The world must act now to end the horrifying and massive attacks against civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza, which comes at a tremendous cost to human life, a UN expert said today.
“Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge More...
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UN Experts: Bombing Hospitals and Schools = Crimes against Humanity, Call for Prevention of Genocide |
By :UN Media Cetner |
19 October 2023 |
GENEVA--UN experts* today expressed outrage against the deadly strike at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which killed more than 470 civilians on Tuesday (17) and trapped hundreds under the rubble. The strike reportedly followed two warnings issued by Israel that an attack on the hospital was imminent if More...
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UN Rights Chief Condemns Baptist Hospital Srtike |
By :UN Media Center |
17 October 2023 |
“Words fail me. Tonight, hundreds of people were killed – horrifically – in a massive strike at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, including patients, healthcare workers and families that had been seeking refuge in and around the hospital. Once again the most vulnerable. This is totally unacceptable.
At least More...
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Document Title
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Publication Date |
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
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06 January 2023 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)
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18 September 2022 |
SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR
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07 April 2021 |
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
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21 December 2020 |
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
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21 December 2020 |
New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"
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05 October 2020 |
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49
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07 August 2015 |
دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49
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07 August 2015 |
تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270
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04 August 2015 |
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, A/70/270
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04 August 2015 |
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
El papel de las autoridades locales y otros niveles subnacionales de gobierno, A/HRC/28/62
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22 December 2014 |
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, A/HRC/25/54
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30 December 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
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24 December 2012 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
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
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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
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17 June 2002 |
Déclaration sur les villes et autres établissements humains en ce nouveau millénaire, S-25/2
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11 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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11 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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09 June 2001 |
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2
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09 June 2001 |
Expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77
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10 March 1993 |
Desalojamientos forzosos, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77
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10 March 1993 |