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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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Finally out!! "The Status of Land Tenure Governance"
By :FAO
25 February 2026
The Status of Land Tenure Governance   ROME/CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA—While progress has been achieved in land tenure and governance over the past 20 years, the ownership, tenure or use rights of only 35 percent of the world’s land is formally documented, according to the Status of Land Tenure and Governance, a new
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Demanding Global, Integrated Agrarian Reform
By :HIC-HLRN
23 February 2026
Global, Integrated Agrarian Reform   In preparation for the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20), hosted by the Colombian government, in collaboration with Brazil, the Food Sovereignty International Planning Committee (IPC) has gathered over 350 global members and local constituents at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia on 21–23 February
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Israel Sprays Glyphosate Herbicide on Southern Lebanon Farms
By :Damien Gayle and William Christou, The Guardian
05 February 2026
Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable     Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that would
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UN Risks “imminent financial collapse,” Secretary General Warns
By :Maia Davies and Imogen Foulkes, BBC
30 January 2026
UN risks `imminent financial collapse`, secretary general warns António Guterres said the organisation`s money could run out by July   The United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees, the body`s head has warned.   António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was
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Palestine/Israel: Why Target Olive Trees Specifically?
By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh
29 November 2025
The first initiatives to form the Zionist movement began in the mid-19th century, instigated by French and British colonial powers seeking to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Their aim was to control the resources of the Arab region and its surroundings by fragmenting it and creating internal conflicts, thus
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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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Sudan: Farmland Shrinks, Agricultural Collapses Due to the War
23 November 2025
Sudan: Farmland Shrinks and the Agricultural Sector Faces Severe Collapse Due to the War     Sudan’s agricultural sector, the lifeline of the country’s economy, is witnessing a severe collapse that has significantly affected the gross domestic product.   Cultivated areas in the country have shrunk to 35%, according to initial estimates by experts and
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Documents (124)

Document Title

Publication Date

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe

15 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)

22 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)

09 March 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

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

09 August 2024

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts

06 September 2023

General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change

22 August 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Climate Finance in Egypt (table)

10 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

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

09 December 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV

07 September 2022

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects

23 April 2022

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

16 March 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

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

07 January 2022

Climate Justice

25 November 2021

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 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

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court

29 April 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

Statement on the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the Situation in Palestine, and seeking a ruling on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction

20 December 2019

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

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

02 July 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต

19 June 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

The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

28 October 2016

Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3

07 September 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 July 2016

Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda

19 July 2016

HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft

28 June 2016

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

28 June 2016

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau

19 March 2016

التوصية العامة رقم 34 بشأن حقوق المرأة الريفية

07 March 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC

18 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region

23 October 2015

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

El papel de las autoridades locales y otros niveles subnacionales de gobierno, A/HRC/28/62

22 December 2014

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن

05 August 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference

05 February 2010

Urban policies and the right to the city: Rights Responsibilities and Citizenship

16 March 2009

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

15 June 2008

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

02 October 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life

16 May 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)

20 June 2005

Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development

24 October 2001

المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)

10 August 2001

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 1999

“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, New York, 21 May 1997.

21 May 1997

اتفاقية قانون استخدام المجاري المائية الدولية في الأغراض غير الملاحية

21 May 1997

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

14 June 1996

Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

"إعلان ريو بشأن البيئة والتنمية"، "جدول أعمال القرن 21،" تقرير الأمم المتحدة المعني بالبيئة والتنمية، A / CONF.151 / 26 (المجلد الأول)

12 August 1992

Agenda 21

14 June 1992

لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"

13 December 1991

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4 "The right to housing"

13 December 1991

الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة

27 June 1989

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

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