News (10)
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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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Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 29 Now Online |
By :HIC-HLRN |
21 September 2023 |
The current Issue 29 of Land Times /أحوال الأرض seeks to fill some of the gaps in current discourse on the most pressing issues facing the human habitat. It looks beyond contradictions between words and actions to identify the applicable norms that are often forgotten and the need for data, More...
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UN Experts: International Community Must Act to End Israel’s Annexation of Palestine |
By :OHCHR |
26 July 2023 |
International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts
Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank would break international law – UN experts call on the international community to ensure accountability
GENEVA—The international community must take steps to More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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Urgent Action South Africa: Ayanda Ngila Murdered |
By :HIC-HLRN |
16 March 2022 |
HIC-HLRN call for urgent action on the murder of land defender Ayanda Ngila
Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN), with its member organizations across the African continent, the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, stands in solidarity with those grieving the murder of South African land rights defender More...
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Crowborough letter |
By :HIC-HLRN |
25 February 2021 |
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UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions |
By :HIC-HLRN |
21 December 2020 |
After the standard 60-day embargo on releasing such communications, the 12 October joint letter of seven UN Special Rapporteurs (SRs) to the Israeli government is now public. The SRs on adequate housing, cultural rights, human rights defenders, the rights of indigenous peoples, the human rights of internally displaced persons, minority More...
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Palestine/Israel: CSOs Urge Prisoners’ Release |
By :Civil society organizations |
18 April 2020 |
On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Civil Society Calls for Urgent Release of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons
As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers. While governments around the world are More...
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Pakistan: HIC Member Assaulted, Threatened |
By :HIC-HLRN |
31 October 2019 |
Human Rights Defender Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot threatened and physically assaulted
Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot, human rights defender and director of HIC Member organization has been attacked outside his home in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The mob of unidentified men attacking the defender accused him of inciting sectarian violence and committing blasphemy.
Dr. More...
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