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New Reports Reveal Violations of HLP Rights in Syria and the Repercussions of Early Recovery Projects |
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By :The Day After |
| 10 January 2024 |
The Day After published two new studies, in addition to a series of previous studies and reports on HLP rights, a matter that has turned to a commodity for negotiation with Syrian society and a source of influence instead of a protected right for individuals.
The first study, entitled “The Violation
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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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World Bank: Lebanon Elite’s `Zombie` Economy |
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By :Yousef Saba and Nadine Awadalla, Reuters |
| 25 January 2022 |
World Bank berates Lebanon`s elite for `zombie` economy
Summary
Rulers have `captured` the state for economic gain, bank says
Lebanon`s economic implosion one of world`s worst ever
GDP has plunged by 58% since 2019 in `zombie` economy: report
DUBAI—The World Bank blasted Lebanon`s ruling class on Tuesday for "orchestrating" one of the world`s worst national
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Archiving What They’ve Done to Mecca |
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By :Mahdi Chowdhury, Hypocrite Reader, Issue 99 |
| 04 December 2021 |
Archives of Salt
“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory.” —Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
“We were students of Jean Sénac’s single insistence; to unequivocally affirm our presence in the reality of this land.” —Momtaza Mehri, “On Pop & Petroleum”
In 1938, using the stars, the Bedouin navigator guided a group of
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Tel Aviv Eviction: 1st Arabs, Then Mizrahi Jews |
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By :Ran Shimoni, Haaretz |
| 15 November 2021 |
Tel Aviv Evicts Residents of Working-class Neighborhood after a Decades-long Battle
Some of the Givat Amal residents are barricading in their homes as police are trying to evict them
Police evicted the final 32 families from Tel Aviv’s Givat Amal Bet neighborhood on Monday, after 60 years of legal battles and even
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Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing @ 20 |
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By :OHCHR |
| 22 June 2021 |
Today, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council: “20 years Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Tacking stock – moving forward”
The report (A/HRC/47/43) highlights key achievements and contributions of the mandate since its establishment
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Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid |
| 31 May 2021 |
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Jerusalem: Israeli Eviction Violence Injures 100s |
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By :Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams |
| 08 May 2021 |
Hundreds of Palestinians Protesting Evictions in Jerusalem Injured in `State-Sanctioned Campaign of Israeli Violence`
"Israel`s violence has a clear purpose: ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of Palestinians to allow Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes."
More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one partially blinded over night in East Jerusalem when
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UN Special Rapporteur to Consult with CSOs |
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By :HIC-HLRN/OHCHR |
| 25 March 2021 |
CSO Consultation with UN Special Rapporteur on Housing
Discrimination and Spatial Segregation
Public consultation by the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing with civil society organizations
Monday, 12 April 2021, 15:00–16:30 CET
Objective
The purpose of this public consultation is to collect input and recommendations from Civil Society Organizations in preparation
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COVID-19 and Neglect in Jerusalem |
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By :Al Haq |
| 14 July 2020 |
The joint briefing paper by Al-Haq, the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC), and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) exposes how systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare has left Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem extremely vulnerable to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The joint paper highlights how Israel’s discriminatory response to
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