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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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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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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‘Loss and Damage’ Debate to Dominate CoP27 |
By :Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times |
10 October 2022 |
‘Loss and damage’ debate set to dominate the COP27 agenda
countries are stepping up demands for compensation ahead of the UN conference in Egypt
World leaders attending next month’s UN climate summit are gearing up for a renewed battle over how much financial support rich countries provide to developing nations, More...
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions, More...
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
By :Joseph Schechla |
24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit More...
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Event: Apartheid against the Palestinian People |
16 March 2022 |
As co-sponsor of this important event, HIC-HLRN cordially invite you to join a high-level side event organized by human rights organizations* and the permanent missions of Malaysia, Namibia, Pakistan, Palestine and South Africa, in parallel to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council entitled Examining the applicability and implications More...
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Call for inputs: Transitional justice in colonial contexts |
By :HIC-HLRN |
22 April 2021 |
Call for inputs – Transitional justice measures and the legacy of human rights violations in colonial contexts
The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Mr. Fabian Salvioli, to the 76th session of the General Assembly, in October 2021, to examine the question More...
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Counting on Justice: Land Rights Violations and Reparations for Victims in Yemen |
By :HIC-HLRN |
28 January 2021 |
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Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa |
By :Joseph Schechla |
30 November 2020 |
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