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Coveting Land, Targeting Homes, Shelters and Shelter Seekers: Israel’s raison d’état, military doctrine and consistent practice |
By :Joseph Schechla |
30 March 2024 |
Israel’s targeting of homes, shelters and shelter seekers has characterized its ongoing genocide against the Indigenous Palestinian people in Gaza. Notably, this also features in the West Bank, as indeed across historic Palestine and throughout the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology.
To commemorate Palestine’s Day of the Land 2024, HIC-HLRN More...
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New Report: Counting Costs, Losses & Damage |
By :HIC-HLRN |
18 February 2024 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this report 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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New Book: The Western Sahara Question and International Law: Recognition Doctrine and Self-Determination |
By :Stephen Allen and Jamie Trinidad |
18 February 2024 |
Stephen Allen, Jamie Trinidad, The Western Sahara Question and International Law: Recognition Doctrine and Self-Determination (New York: Routledge, 2024)
This new book analyses recent developments concerning the application of the international legal doctrines of recognition and self-determination in relation to the Western Sahara Question. It investigates the emergent shift in favor of 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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UNCTAD Rapid Assessment of Gaza War Impacts |
02 February 2024 |
Preliminary Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Destruction in Gaza and Prospects for Economic Recovery
UNCTAD Rapid Assessment
Utilizing innovative satellite imagery and official data, the report details the unprecedented destruction in Gaza since the military operation that began after 7 October 2023.
It warns that the economic damage will take More...
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Assault on UNRWA: “refugee status in the region has been routinely violated” |
By :Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention |
01 February 2024 |
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
The safety and sanctity of refugee status in the region has been routinely violated by Israel – this is no longer an allegation, but forms a critical part of the South African case before the ICJ. Taking action against UNRWA as a whole represents an intensification More...
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CoP28 Delivers: What, Who and How They’re Pledging |
By :Reuters |
06 December 2023 |
Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much?
At this year`s U.N. climate summit, countries, development institutions and businesses are pledging more money for everything from the energy transition to health care initiatives, technology investments, disaster relief and more.
Hosts the United Arab Emirates said more than $83 billion had been More...
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Clashes @ CoP28: Fossil Fuels, War on Gaza |
By :Valerie Volcovici, William James and Elizabeth Piper, Reuters |
01 December 2023 |
Clashes over fossil fuels, Gaza conflict cloud COP28 climate summit
Summary
Leaders push starkly different hopes for fossil fuels
King Charles III of Britain pleads for climate progress
South Africa, Turkey criticize conflict in Gaza
DUBAI—U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit on Friday to plan for a future without fossil More...
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Agreement on loss and damage deal reached on first day of CoP28 talks |
30 November 2023 |
Agreement on loss and damage deal reached on first day of CoP28 talks
Fund to help world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries hit by climate disaster is first decision agreed at conference
A landmark deal to help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries pay for the irreversible impacts of climate disaster More...
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CoP28: Why Are Billionaires Blocking Action to Save the Planet? |
By :George Monbiot, The Guardian |
29 November 2023 |
Opinion
Here’s a question Cop28 won’t address: why are billionaires blocking action to save the planet?
It’s obscene that the super-rich can criminalise protest, while they burn the world’s resources and remain untouched by the law
Don’t they have children? Don’t they have grandchildren? Don’t rich and powerful people care about the world More...
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Document Title
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Publication Date |
Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change
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21 November 2023 |
Climate Finance in Egypt (table)
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10 March 2023 |
Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors
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15 February 2023 |
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
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27 December 2022 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)
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21 September 2022 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (جبر الضرر)
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20 September 2022 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)
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20 September 2022 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)
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20 September 2022 |
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB
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07 September 2022 |
Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism
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01 September 2022 |
Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction
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20 May 2022 |
Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing
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20 May 2022 |
Africities9 CSO statement on social justice
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20 May 2022 |
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان
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23 April 2022 |
Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
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16 March 2022 |
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review
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31 January 2022 |
Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW
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20 January 2022 |
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole
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07 January 2022 |
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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24 October 2021 |
Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021
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30 August 2021 |
Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid
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31 May 2021 |
Crowborough letter
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25 February 2021 |
Global Farmers Strike - First Wave
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01 February 2021 |
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan
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28 January 2021 |
التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن
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28 January 2021 |
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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28 January 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 |
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"
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05 October 2020 |
جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19
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05 October 2020 |
Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020
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25 September 2020 |
Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses
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30 July 2020 |
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights
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20 July 2020 |
Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development
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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
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20 December 2019 |
بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة
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20 December 2019 |
Land Inequality Framing Document
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30 October 2019 |
Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities
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31 August 2019 |
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie
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13 July 2019 |
HIC Open Letter to UN Leadership
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21 June 2019 |
Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda
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30 May 2019 |
WLH Kampala Workshop Report
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14 May 2019 |
HC Michelle Bachelet to Human Rights Treaty Body chairpersons
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30 April 2019 |
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence
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05 December 2018 |
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency
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02 July 2018 |
New York City SDG-reporting press release
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01 May 2018 |
SDG Land Indicators presentation
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27 April 2018 |
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs
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24 April 2018 |
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين
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23 April 2018 |
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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25 October 2017 |
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır
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19 August 2017 |
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report
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01 August 2017 |
Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs
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10 July 2017 |
Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment
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27 June 2017 |
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3
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28 April 2017 |
Habitat III Statement
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20 October 2016 |
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities
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11 October 2016 |
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities
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11 October 2016 |
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016
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10 September 2016 |
Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool
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28 August 2016 |
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,
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12 August 2016 |
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016
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28 July 2016 |
A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports
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24 July 2016 |
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report
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01 July 2016 |
HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft
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28 June 2016 |
Sanctuary in the City: Beirut
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01 June 2016 |
تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016
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09 April 2016 |
Livret vert de la Convergence
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19 March 2016 |
General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women
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07 March 2016 |
Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III
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02 February 2016 |
اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1
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12 December 2015 |
"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21
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04 December 2015 |
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة
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15 October 2015 |
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)
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21 September 2015 |
The private modes of water capture in Lebanon
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01 September 2015 |
Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector
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01 September 2015 |
Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon
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01 September 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 |
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 |
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
Human Rights Obligations of Local Government
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20 July 2015 |
أساسيات الموئل الثالث
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16 April 2015 |
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
The Right to the City: Jerusalem
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26 October 2014 |
المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية
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18 October 2014 |
حول خطة لمقاربة الموازنة العامة للدولة
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06 September 2013 |
الدليل الإرشادي لأعمال الموازنة للمنظمات غير الحكومية
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06 September 2013 |
ACIJ دراسات الحالة
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06 September 2013 |
دراسة حالة سمارتان
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06 September 2013 |
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles
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11 July 2013 |
ETOs and Transnational Corruption
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11 July 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 |
Promotion of Human Rights of the Urban Poor: Strategies and Best Practices, A/HRC/AC/9/3
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29 May 2012 |
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo
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11 February 2012 |
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District
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24 January 2012 |
Gwangju Declaration on Human Right City
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17 May 2011 |
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City
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01 July 2010 |
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث
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22 May 2010 |
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية
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09 March 2010 |
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)
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28 December 2009 |
مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف
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24 March 2009 |
Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2
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24 March 2009 |
دراسة برلمانية تحليلية حول موضوع: التنمية الإسكانية المستدامة
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14 October 2008 |
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
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15 June 2008 |
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3
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06 June 2008 |
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 |
Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني
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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
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21 November 2006 |
Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7
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11 May 2006 |
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration
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09 March 2006 |
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17
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28 June 2005 |
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17
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28 June 2005 |
Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India
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01 January 2002 |
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar
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31 December 2001 |
Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development
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24 October 2001 |
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)
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10 September 2001 |
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)
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10 September 2001 |
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures
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21 July 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 |
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)
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22 July 1999 |
Gender and the Habitat Agenda: Engendering Our Human Settlements
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01 April 1999 |
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14
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14 June 1996 |
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14
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14 June 1996 |
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية
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14 April 1996 |
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية
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29 May 1995 |
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.
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14 October 1994 |
Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)
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01 June 1967 |
Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association
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23 December 1956 |