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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
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Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

24 November 2023

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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.
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Gaza: Uninhabitable Moonscape after War Ends

By :Isabel DeBre, PBS News

24 November 2023

Gaza will be an uninhabitable moonscape after war ends Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells. Nearly
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Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

By :HIC-HLRN

21 November 2023

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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
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Gaza: 45 Percent Housing Units Reportedly Destroyed or Damaged

By :UNOCHA

27 October 2023

The snapshot provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza as of October 25, 2023, including casualties, particularly among women and children. Significant damage has been inflicted upon critical infrastructure and essential services, impacting the population`s ability to maintain their dignity and basic living standards. This snapshot highlights reported
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Domicide: Destruction of Homes in Gaza and Homs

By :Ammar Azzouz, The Conversation

26 October 2023

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza following the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of their homes. At least 43% of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been either destroyed or damaged since the start of the hostilities, according
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War on Gaza: an Unprecedented and Devastating Impact

By :UNESCWA

25 October 2023

Beirut, 25 October 2023--The war on Gaza and its full siege by Israel have been unprecedented in the scale of death and destruction, with profound and devastating impacts on the lives of Palestinians. To date, more than 6,500 lives were lost, 40 per cent of which were children, which is
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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
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Documents (198)

Document Title	Publication Date
Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change	21 November 2023
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT	06 September 2023
Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts	06 September 2023
Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	21 March 2023
Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors	15 February 2023
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
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (جبر الضرر)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)	18 September 2022
مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)	18 September 2022
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB	07 September 2022
Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV	07 September 2022
Evolving ETOs	16 June 2022
When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	06 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
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
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire	18 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
Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid	31 May 2021
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
Crowborough letter	25 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 February 2021
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	28 January 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
Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid	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
Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19	05 October 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
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 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
Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses	30 July 2020
Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses	30 July 2020
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights	20 July 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues	22 March 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
What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara	19 September 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
WLH Kampala Workshop Report	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
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 2018
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
"No hunger on earth as of today"	21 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA	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
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 2017
Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment	27 June 2017
General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities	23 June 2017
ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต	19 June 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
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016	31 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)	23 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	28 October 2016
Habitat III Statement	20 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool	27 August 2016
What Papua New Guinea Said	26 July 2016
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda	19 July 2016
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III	28 June 2016
Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement	29 April 2016
تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016	09 April 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence	19 March 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau	19 March 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development	22 December 2015
The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1	12 December 2015
"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
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	15 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law	15 May 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي	24 April 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village	12 December 2014
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية	18 October 2014
Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia	30 September 2014
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	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	24 December 2012
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District	24 January 2012
The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar	30 June 2011
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
مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف	24 March 2009
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”	01 October 2008
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 2008
United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples	02 October 2007
إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية	02 October 2007
Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones	02 October 2007
Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas	02 October 2007
المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية بشأن عمليات الإخلاء بدافع التنمية والمهجرين، A/ HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
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
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration	09 March 2006
Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games	31 December 2005
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	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	28 June 2005
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
La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition	01 July 2003
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	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	17 June 2002
House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem	14 February 2002
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India	01 January 2002
المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)	10 August 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
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 1999
“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 June 1999
”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 June 1999
Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, done in London, on 17 June 1999.	17 June 1999
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	17 July 1998
نظام روما الاساسي للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية	17 July 1998
اتفاقية قانون استخدام المجاري المائية الدولية في الأغراض غير الملاحية	21 May 1997
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, 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
اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا	14 October 1994
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.	14 October 1994
The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa	10 September 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين	06 July 1993
Agenda 21	14 June 1992
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
S/RES/520 (1982)	17 September 1982
S/RES/501 (1982)	25 February 1982
Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories	21 April 1978
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Flood Control & Marine Pollution of Continental Origin, Institute of International Law, 55th Conference	17 August 1972
“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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