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UN Marks 75 Years of Palestinian Displacement

By :UN

15 May 2023

UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians The UN on Monday commemorated for the first time in its history, the mass displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel, 75 years ago, that turned 700,000 Palestinians into refugees, almost overnight. The mass displacement in 1948, known as the
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Palestine: The Ongoing Nakba at 75

By :Al-Haq

15 May 2023

Israeli Apartheid - The Legacy of the Ongoing Nakba at 75 Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). Palestinian society was decimated during the Nakba, 531
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HIC-HLRN with GLTN on Loss & Damage

By :HIC-HLRN

05 May 2023

The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is a dynamic and multisectoral alliance of international partners committed to improving equitable and sustainable access to, use of and governance of land and increasing tenure security for all. GLTN especially focuses on improving the situation of the poor, women and youth. HIC-HLRN is
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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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47th Palestinian Land Day

30 March 2023

Annexation and Expansion...Displacement and Reallocation: The Zionist Israeli Agenda Exposed Statement by Land Research Center in 47 years of Palestinian Land Day, 30 March 2023 In 1976, the Israeli occupation masterminds came up with a plan to develop the Galilee (designated by the UN partition plan to be part of the Arab
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Call for Applications: Climate Justice & Social Production of Habitat

By :Habitat International Coalition

26 March 2023

If you are a HIC Member and have practical, learning or teaching experience in climate justice or social production of habitat (SPH), please apply to join a group of facilitators for the co-learning spaces on Climate Justice and SPH. What is a co-learning space? Co-learning spaces are cross-regional, multi-session encounters that
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Charity Food Banks Are No Solution

By :Michael Savage The Guardian

26 March 2023

Expanding food banks is no substitute for tackling poverty, charities warn Letter to the Observer signed by experts from around the world says proper government policies are needed A “growing reliance” on food banks across the world risks discouraging proper state policies to deal with poverty, according to a joint warning issued
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HIC-HLRN Participation in AFSD 2023

By :HIC-HLRN

16 March 2023

The regional coordinator for Housing and Land Rights Network, Joseph Schechla, submitted an oral intervention on (SDG11), during the participation in the Arab Forum for Sustainable development that organized by ESCWA from 14-16 March. HIC-HLRN is participating with Abir Saksouk of Public Works Studio (Lebanon) as discussants on the 2023
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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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UN Experts: Israel Commits ‘Domicide’

By :OHCHR

13 February 2023

UN experts say Israel should be held accountable for acts of ‘domicide’ GENEVA—The international community must take action to stop systematic and deliberate housing demolition and sealing, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, UN experts* said today. In the month of January 2023 alone, Israeli
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Documents (207)

Document Title	Publication Date
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
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
New: In Pursuit of Climate Change	13 October 2022
World Habitat Day 2022	03 October 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism	01 September 2022
Event: Stakeholders Networking for Sustainable Development	28 July 2022
Gold Extractivism- Sudan	16 June 2022
Proposed structure for UN-Habitat Stakeholder Engagement Policy	15 June 2022
UN system practices for selected agencies, funds and programmes	15 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
Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW	20 January 2022
Joint Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women	20 January 2022
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole	07 January 2022
Climate Justice	25 November 2021
New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen	24 October 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021	30 August 2021
Un derecho humano a la tierra	05 August 2021
حق الإنسان في الأرض	18 June 2021
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
SR_Questionnaire-discrimination-housing_AR	07 April 2021
Crowborough letter	25 February 2021
A Human Right to Land	24 February 2021
الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان	24 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 February 2021
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 February 2021
HIC Women in Africa PPT	10 February 2021
Global Farmers Strike - First Wave	01 February 2021
التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن	28 January 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	28 January 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة	11 December 2020
New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"	05 October 2020
جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19	05 October 2020
Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020	25 September 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
Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats	30 August 2020
Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya	16 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR	03 April 2020
Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues	22 March 2020
Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development	09 February 2020
نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة	09 February 2020
Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance	09 February 2020
Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat	09 February 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
The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations	06 September 2019
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie	13 July 2019
UN: Eroding the Human Rights Treaty System	21 June 2019
HIC Open Letter to UN Leadership	21 June 2019
Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda	30 May 2019
HIC-proposed CSM for UN Habitat	27 May 2019
WLH Kampala Workshop Report	14 May 2019
Milestones in UN Habitat’s Cooperation with Stakeholders: Forward and Backward	14 May 2019
Charting UN Habitat-Stakeholder Engagement	14 May 2019
Open Letter to UN Habitat Executive Director	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
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Campesinos y de Otras Personas que Trabajan en las Zonas Rurales	20 November 2018
Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales	20 November 2018
Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT	22 October 2018
SDG Land Indicators	01 September 2018
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency	02 July 2018
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 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
Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement	02 September 2017
Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine	23 August 2017
Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System	21 August 2017
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
Gains and Losses of Habitat III	09 July 2017
Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment	27 June 2017
ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต	19 June 2017
مناقشة الإطار الهيكلي لميثاق مدينة بيروت الكبرى	15 June 2017
تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت	15 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
“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
تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة	28 February 2017
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition	24 January 2017
المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة	23 January 2017
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) Ar	23 December 2016
ملاحظات تمهيدية، 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
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3	07 September 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016	28 July 2016
HIC comments on Habitat III draft of 27 July 2016	27 July 2016
What Papua New Guinea Said	26 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Displaced, Migrants and Refugees	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Gender Equality	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Governance	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Housing	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Youth and Children	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Human Rights	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Indigenous People	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Older Persons	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Land	21 July 2016
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda	19 July 2016
Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III	28 June 2016
HIC @ Habitat III	23 June 2016
Statement of the Brazilian Civil Society on the New Urban Agenda	31 May 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence	19 March 2016
Growing Stress on Jordan by Council on Foreign Relations	17 March 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21	04 December 2015
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC	18 November 2015
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	15 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 2015
Habitat II Baby, Habitat III Bathwater	10 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	04 August 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology	27 February 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
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village	12 December 2012
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)	21 May 2012
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)	21 May 2012
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District	24 January 2012
Sanctuary in the city_ Urban displacement and vulnerability in Damascus A desk study	15 December 2011
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City	01 July 2010
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث	22 May 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
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية	09 March 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
Urban policies and the right to the city: Rights Responsibilities and Citizenship	16 March 2009
The challenges of the democratic management in Brazil: The right to the city	17 September 2008
Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني	27 February 2007
Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	21 November 2006
The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life	16 May 2006
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration	09 March 2006
Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games	31 December 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)	20 June 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)	20 June 2005
Charter for Women`s Right to the City	01 September 2004
Institutionalized Discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon	01 March 2004
Gender Equality in UN-Habitat	01 January 2004
Women and Habitat: A History	01 January 2004
Informe sobre el Pacto Internacional de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales – PIDESC	14 November 2003
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Dominican Republic (Executive Summary)	14 November 2003
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
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
إعلان بشأن المدن والمستوطنات البشرية الأخرى في الألفية الجديدة، دإ-25/	09 June 2001
Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!	06 June 2001
"Back to the Future," statement before the General Assembly Special Session Habitat II+5 Review	07 April 2001
Statement before the special Plenary Session on NGO participation, Habitat II+5 Second Preparatory Committee	21 February 2001
European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City	18 May 2000
“Women’s access, control and tenure of land, property and settlement”	25 July 1998
La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
Constructing a New Social Alternative	03 February 1996
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
European Charter for Women in the City	01 March 1994
Expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77	10 March 1993
Desalojamientos forzosos, E/CN.4/RES/1993/77	10 March 1993
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages	16 June 1992
Agenda 21	14 June 1992
Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4	13 December 1991
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
S/RES/520 (1982)	17 September 1982
“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1	31 December 1967

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