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News (10)
USA/Israel Target Nearly 20K Homes in Iran
By :HIC-HLRN
14 March 2026
USA/Israel Target Nearly 20K Homes in Iran   More than 24,000 civilian units have been damaged across various sectors in Iran, including 19,775 residential units, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said today, according to IRNA. The home destruction affects and estimated 98,775 Iranians.   It added that 69 schools were damaged
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International Women’s Day: Palestinian Women’s Inspiring Resistance
By :BDS National Committee
08 March 2026
International Women’s Day: The Inspiring Resistance of Palestinian Women   On 8 March, the reality of Palestinian women cannot be separated from their tireless resistance to colonial violence and ongoing genocide — which demolishes their homes, threatens their land and throws them in prison cells. Women also carry most of the burden of caring
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Israel Attacks, Orders All Residents out of South Lebanon
07 March 2026
Lebanon: Israeli blanket displacement orders bring more misery to civilians From spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani   GENEVA—Israel’s military ground incursions into southern Lebanon, blanket displacement orders for the population in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa region and the full area to the south of the Litani
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The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA
By :Palestine Refugee Policy Forum, Policy Brief 6
01 March 2026

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Indigenous Peoples and social movements reaffirm unity at ICARRD+20
By :IPC
28 February 2026
Political Declaration: closing session ICARRD+20 Indigenous Peoples and social movements reaffirm unity and support to ICARRD+20 organizers, but reject conference declaration at closing ceremony Cartagena de Indias, Colombia   Indigenous Peoples and social movements come today in front of you to express our irreducible unity. For centuries, oppressors have been using a divide
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Israel Defense Mionister Affirms to Resettle North Gaza ‘at appropriate time’
23 December 2025
Defying PM and Washington, Katz says Israel will resettle north Gaza ‘at appropriate time’     Contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated assertions that Israel does not plan to resettle Gaza, as well as the US peace plan for the enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz tells settlements leaders, “With God’s help when the
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Human Rights in the Naqab: NCF Annual Review 2025
By :Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
15 December 2025
  On the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2025, Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCFCE) has issued its annual report: “Human Rights in the Negev: Challenges and Pathways to Equality for the Bedouin Minority – Annual Review 2025.”   This report provides a focused overview of developments and human rights violations affecting
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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel
By :OHCHR
28 November 2025
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel   GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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Join Statement of Solidarity with Palestinian Rights Organizations
By :HLRN Team
18 September 2025
Following the designation of four Palestinian organizations by the US, as well as Palestine Action in the UK, please find below a solidarity statement for endorsement.   You can find the statement here:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/15UTlczq9m3xZDY_dGtUZMnyJoUcbKhanFGNPlvetcqI/edit?usp=sharing   To sign on, please use this link: https://forms.gle/5ibD1PvziMTFKQkP8   Signatures will be added on a rolling basis.   Do not hesitate to share it
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International Commission of Jurists Urges Sebutinde Investigation
By :International Commission of Jurists
25 August 2025
ICJ communication to the International Court of Justice urging the investigation of the Court’s Vice-President   The [International Commission of Jurists] ICJ has sent a communication to the President of the International Court of Justice (the Court), Justice Yuji Iwasawa, to urge the Court to conduct an investigation into allegations relating to certain statements
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Documents (85)

Document Title

Publication Date

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights

09 August 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

30 May 2025

تقرير مركز أبحاث الأراضي، بمناسبة ذكرى النكبة السابع والسبعين- 2025

18 May 2025

Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era

10 March 2025

أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية

10 March 2025

بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون

07 October 2024

La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits

09 August 2024

Reflexiones de las OSC sobre el décimo aniversario de los VGGT

06 September 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

New: In Pursuit of Climate Change

13 October 2022

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

Proposed structure for UN-Habitat Stakeholder Engagement Policy

15 June 2022

Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

16 March 2022

Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW

20 January 2022

Joint Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

20 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

Climate Justice

25 November 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

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

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

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip

10 November 2020

"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

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya

16 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

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة

20 December 2019

Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report

05 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

HIC Open Letter to UN Leadership

21 June 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

HIC-proposed CSM for UN Habitat

27 May 2019

Milestones in UN Habitat’s Cooperation with Stakeholders: Forward and Backward

14 May 2019

Charting UN Habitat-Stakeholder Engagement

14 May 2019

Open Letter to UN Habitat Executive Director

14 May 2019

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

New York City SDG-reporting press release

01 May 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية

26 February 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 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

Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3

07 September 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III

28 June 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III

02 February 2016

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Gwangju Guiding Principles for a Human Rights City

17 May 2014

UPR: The Dilemma over Non-participating States, A/HRC/24/NGO/81

04 September 2013

"Neo‐liberalism on crack Cities under siege in Iraq," City, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2007)

21 May 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إعلان نييليني

27 February 2007

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة

24 October 2001

Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

HIC Global Policy Declaration

15 June 1989

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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