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Milestone for Indigenous land rights in Ecuador’s Amazon |
By :UNDP |
14 August 2025 |
"Nature has always cared for us, and that’s why we made the decision to protect it and every being that lives within it. I’m grateful to everyone who supported us, and today, I feel incredibly proud," said Mónica Antich, an Indigenous Shuar woman from the Tsuntsuim community, at a gathering More...
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Invitation: ICJ Advisory Opinion on States’ Climate Obligations – A Defining Moment for Climate Justice |
By :Dibeen for Environmental Development |
30 July 2025 |
Warm greetings,
In a moment that marks a turning point in the pursuit of climate justice, the long-awaited advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of states in the context of climate change was issued on 23 July 2025, following a request from the United Nations More...
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Fair Climate Finance Requires Debt Reform |
By :Mohamed Adow, project-syndicate.org |
30 July 2025 |
From biased risk assessments to harsh loan conditionality, the global financial architecture is practically designed to entrench inequality. Reforming it is vital to finance climate action, particularly for debt-distressed countries – and Africa must take the lead in advocating for change.
NAIROBI – When delegates from around the world convened in More...
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Climate Change does not Cause Land Conflict, it Exacerbates it |
By :Elizabeth Daley, sparc-knowledge |
30 July 2025 |
At this year`s LANDac Land Conference, SPARC shared evidence from pastoralists in Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria on how land governance in drylands can create sustainable, gender-inclusive change.
At the annual LANDac Land Governance Conference on July 4th 2025, I had the privilege of chairing a session, “Learning from SPARC research More...
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‘The Biggest Climate Case in History’ behind ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change |
By :by Martina Igini, Earth.Org |
22 July 2025 |
On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will present its long-awaited advisory opinion on the obligations of countries under international law in respect of climate change.
The ruling could have a consequential impact on climate action worldwide, opening up the possibility that international climate commitments can be legally enforced More...
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New Global Coalition Urges Rights-Based Climate Relocation Policies |
By :Erica Bower, Charlotte Finegold, Human Rights Watch |
25 June 2025 |
Last week, Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global alliance working to ensure communities forced to plan relocations due to climate change can do so on their own terms and with dignity.
Over two days in New York City, more than More...
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Alarming Land Degradation in the Arab Region |
By :FAO |
17 June 2025 |
Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation — over 46 million hectares — are agricultural land.
Rome - A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed concerning levels of agricultural land degradation, particularly in the Arab region, where more than 46 million hectares of More...
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Women in the Wake of Floods |
By :Habitat Defenders Africa (HDA) and HIC-HLRN |
10 June 2025 |
This report presents the outcomes of applying the Climate Change Impact-assessment and Justice Tool (CCIAJT) to produce community-led data on the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households in the 2025 flooding in Kosovo Informal Settlement, Kampala, Uganda.
The enumeration exercise has resulted in a conservative estimate of €55,021 in More...
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Green Grabbing: Lack of Land Rights Promotes Unjust Climate Action |
By :Wambui Mbuthia-Nation Media Group |
04 June 2025 |
What you need to know:
Indigenous Peoples and local communities hold customary rights to about 65 per cent of the world`s land, yet only 10 per cent is formally recognised as theirs.
Kenya recently suspended the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, once the world`s largest soil carbon removal effort, after a court More...
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review |
30 May 2025 |
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Document Title
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Publication Date |
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review
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30 May 2025 |
Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings
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21 May 2025 |
On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
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15 May 2025 |
في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد
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15 May 2025 |
Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
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23 April 2025 |
Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)
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22 April 2025 |
Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya
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07 April 2025 |
How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy
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01 April 2025 |
استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)
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09 March 2025 |
Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)
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20 February 2025 |
Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024
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27 October 2024 |
سبل معالجة النزوح الناجم عن تغير المناخ والنزاعات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا- يونيو 2024
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27 October 2024 |
Climate Finance Table - Tunisia
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23 August 2024 |
General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change
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22 August 2023 |
Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
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21 March 2023 |
Climate Finance in Egypt (table)
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10 March 2023 |
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
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09 December 2022 |
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)
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21 September 2022 |
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB
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07 September 2022 |
Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV
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07 September 2022 |
Evolving ETOs
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16 June 2022 |
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان
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23 April 2022 |
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review
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31 January 2022 |
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire
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18 October 2021 |
حق الإنسان في الأرض
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18 June 2021 |
The Land and Its People:Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa.
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01 June 2021 |
Global Farmers Strike - First Wave
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01 February 2021 |
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip
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10 November 2020 |
"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 |
Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales
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20 November 2018 |
HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
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06 May 2018 |
SDG Land Indicators presentation
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27 April 2018 |
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs
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24 April 2018 |
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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30 October 2017 |
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 |
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition
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24 January 2017 |
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016
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10 September 2016 |
What Papua New Guinea Said
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26 July 2016 |
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
The Future We Want – The United Nations We Need
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16 June 2016 |
تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016
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09 April 2016 |
Livret vert de la Convergence
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19 March 2016 |
The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1
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12 December 2015 |
اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1
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12 December 2015 |
"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21
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04 December 2015 |
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region
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23 October 2015 |
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة
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15 October 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 |
المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي
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24 April 2015 |
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
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27 February 2015 |
المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية
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18 October 2014 |
تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن
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05 August 2014 |
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)
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21 May 2012 |
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds
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17 March 2011 |
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني
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27 February 2007 |
المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)
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10 August 2001 |
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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05 September 2000 |
European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City
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18 May 2000 |
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 |
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية
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14 April 1996 |
اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا
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14 October 1994 |
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.
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14 October 1994 |
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages
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16 June 1992 |
Declaración de Vancouver
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11 June 1976 |