The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) sees no alternative to upholding human rights, international law and multilateralism as rules of statecraft for individual countries and the global system. These norms demand progress toward a world of human rights habitat, corresponding approaches that ensure peace, and the self-determination of peoples, including Indigenous Peoples within development states. Therefore, we strongly condemn the illegal aggression by the United States, Israel and collaborating governments against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
We also call upon the political class of Iran to make way for governance that upholds universalist values, withdrawing from ideologies and structures driven by religion, nationalism, racism and patriarchy, and pursuing accountability for commission of the catalog of crimes against the Iranian people. HIC also issues the same demand on all states to fulfill their codified obligations within a global order chartered under the terms “We the peoples of the United Nations.”
The US-Israeli aggression launched, once again, on 28 February 2026 constitutes a bundle of grave crimes in violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations and Article 5 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. We also condemn the decayed UN Security Council for its lopsided and factually distorted resolution 2817, actually blaming the state violated in these Charter-busting actions. These monstrous acts drive more nails in multilateralism’s rapidly closing coffin. We charge the responsible outlaw state representatives’ collective assassination of human rights, peace and world order with liability for this chronicle of a death foretold for as long as Israel’s establishment with General Assembly members’ approval and continued complicity. That development in 1948 forms a perverse irony with the General Assembly’s coincident adoption of the universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From every region of its membership, HIC warns—once again—of the suffering that will radiate globally from Western Asia and North Africa as a consequence of US foreign policy and great power hegemony through residual colonization and other forms of illicit exploitation of peoples and their sovereign natural resources.
We join our voices in solidarity with our member organizations, friends, and allies in Iran, with its people, and, more general, with all peoples whose rights to a human rights habitat, respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human right to adequate housing at the core. At the same time, we denounce the willful neglect of the international institutions that should be safeguarding peace, but have derogated their mandated human rights framework, effectively eroded international relations to enable normalization of genocide, belligerent occupation and wars of aggression. This rupture has demoralized civil society around the world and shattered the legitimacy of governments and institutions worldwide.
We reaffirm that no form of external intervention can be justified under any pretext of security. Rather, in reality, extraterritorial state behavior—by commission and/or omission—has unmasked nefarious geopolitical and economic interests to lay bare the prevailing hypocrisy and double standards that imperil us all.
Finally, we appeal to the Iranian people, heirs of the cradle of civilization, to resolve their internal political and social crisis peacefully and democratically, without external interference, through dialogue, wisdom and respect for human rights, to guarantee the dignity and well-being of all.
