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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 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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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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Call for input: Human rights impact of business enterprises in occupied Palestinian territory |
By :OHCHR |
14 September 2023 |
Call for input: Human rights impact of business enterprises in the occupied Palestinian territory
Issued by Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Deadline: 03 November 2023
Objectives:
The thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since More...
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Why Barcelona Reversed Decision on Israel |
By :Bianca Carrera, The New Arab |
11 September 2023 |
Why did Barcelona reverse its decision to cut ties with Israel?
In February, Barcelona broke off ties with Israel, citing the systematic violation of Palestinian human rights. Seven months later, and with a new mayor in office, the twin city agreement with Tel Aviv has been restored.
On 1 September, the new More...
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CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary |
By :Philip Seufert |
06 September 2023 |
Civil Society Perspectives on the Use and Application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
In the context of the activities that the WG had planned last year on the 10th anniversary of the Tenure Guidelines, FAO commissioned FIAN to prepare a background More...
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CoP28: Growing Human Rights, Environmental Scrutiny of UAE Hosts |
By :Human Rights Watch and The New York Times |
30 August 2023 |
The following two pieces appeared on 30 August and 1 September:
COP28: US Should Press UAE for Activist’s Release
Free Ahmed Mansoor to Set Better Tone for COP28 Climate Conference
Statement by Human Rights Watch
30 August 2023
Beirut—The US government should publicly call on UAE authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor More...
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Global Letter to UN & World Bank: Set Serious Goals to Combat Inequality |
By :Equals Hope |
17 July 2023 |
Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
17 July 2023
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,
RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality
As a group of economists and leaders in the fight More...
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OHCHR’s Complicit Businesses: Update? |
By :HIC-HLRN |
03 July 2023 |
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued the long-awaited and overdue update to the UN database of all business enterprises involved in the Israeli settlements [read: settler colonies] on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East More...
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New Publication on Global Land and Resource Grabbing |
By :Routledge |
06 June 2023 |
The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing has just been published. Co-edited by ETO Consortium academic member Andreas Neef (University of Auckland, Nez Zealand), “[this] handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.”
The abstract of the handbook further reads:
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an More...
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Document Title
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Publication Date |
CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary
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06 September 2023 |
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
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27 December 2022 |
ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS
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23 October 2022 |
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB
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07 September 2022 |
Evolving ETOs
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16 June 2022 |
Gold Extractivism- Sudan
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16 June 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 |
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan
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28 January 2021 |
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 |
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie
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13 July 2019 |
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency
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02 July 2018 |
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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25 October 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 |
General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities
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23 June 2017 |
ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต
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19 June 2017 |
المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة
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23 January 2017 |
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,
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12 August 2016 |
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
HIC @ Habitat III
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23 June 2016 |
Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement
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29 April 2016 |
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)
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31 January 2016 |
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
The private modes of water capture in Lebanon
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01 September 2015 |
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool
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20 July 2015 |
The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law
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15 May 2015 |
أساسيات الموئل الثالث
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16 April 2015 |
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
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 |
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 |
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”
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01 October 2008 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
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 |
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني
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27 February 2007 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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05 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 |
Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States
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01 January 2002 |
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar
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31 December 2001 |
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة
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24 October 2001 |
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)
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22 July 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 |
La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14
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14 June 1996 |
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية
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14 April 1996 |
Constructing a New Social Alternative
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03 February 1996 |
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17
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06 July 1993 |
Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"
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01 March 1946 |