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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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US Companies in Gaza: Pernicious Profit Seeking
By :Aram Roston and Cate Brown. The Guardian
14 December 2025
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal     Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in
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US Gaza Plan: Forced Ghettoisation, Aannexation, Mass Ddetention, Resource Plunder
By :Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
03 December 2025
US plan in Gaza: forced ghettoisation, annexation, mass detention, resource plunder     Palestinian Territory – The consequences of the US plan to support dividing the Gaza Strip into green and red zones separated by a yellow military line carry grave risks, including the effective displacement of Palestinians from their homes and the transformation
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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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Palestine’s West Bank: Record Israeli Criminal Construction Tenders in 2025
By :Jeremy Sharon, Times of Israel
09 November 2025
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025   Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published   The number of housing units in West Bank settlements
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Sudan: 67,000 Displaced amid a Week of Atrocities
By :Adel Abdelrheem and Rania Abu Shamala, Anadolu Acensi
01 November 2025
Over 62,000 displaced from Sudan’s El-Fasher after RSF seized city, says UN migration agency 4,500 people also fled city of Bara in North Kordofan state, says Sudan Doctors Network   KHARTOUM/ISTANBUL—More than 62,000 people have been displaced from El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in western Sudan, within four days of the
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Sudan: Massacre and Displacement in Darfur, North Kordofan
By :Al Jazeera Staff
29 October 2025
Massacre in el-Fasher: What’s happening in Sudan right now? Rights groups say the RSF paramilitary group committed mass atrocities as it seized the besieged city in North Darfur.     Thousands of people are feared to have been murdered in the western Sudanese city of el-Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, since the paramilitary
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3rd Arab Land Conference Report is Out!
By :The Arab Land Initiative Team, GLTN
23 October 2025
The Final Report is out, and so are all the session recordings and materials! Whether you joined us in person, participated online or couldn’t make it, this is your opportunity to explore the Conference’s key insights on land governance across the Arab region through its most pressing themes, including
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Israel`s Ethnic Cleaning, Demolition of al-Sirr Village in Naqab
17 September 2025
Ethnic cleaning of the village of Al-Sirr in Naqab/ Al-Naqab (Palestine 48)   Al-Sirr, al-Naqab, Palestine/Israel   On the beginning of May 2025, the village of Al-Sirr, located in the Naqab (Negev) region, has experienced large-scale demolition operations carried out by Israeli occupation bulldozers.   Al-Sirr, also known as Qasr al-Sir (Arabic: قصر السر), (The village
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Western Sahara in 2025: 50 Years of Occupation and Exile
By :Nena Nedrebo, Reflections, Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program
08 September 2025
Fifty Years in Exile: Human Rights and the Forgotten Crisis in Western Sahara   Embarka sits in her tent, pitched on the sandy ground in the vast expanse of southwestern Algeria’s desert, in between multitudes of such shelters scattered across the sand dunes. Brewing Sahrawi tea over a small fire as she
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Documents (79)

Document Title

Publication Date

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

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

09 March 2025

Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)

20 February 2025

Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

06 January 2023

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 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

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

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

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

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 October 2020

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

25 September 2020

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

16 September 2020

لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير

13 July 2020

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

29 April 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 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

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

20 December 2019

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

30 April 2019

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

17 January 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine

23 August 2017

Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır

19 August 2017

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

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 2017

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016

31 December 2016

“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

19 December 2016

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

28 October 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments

30 June 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2

24 March 2009

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

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

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1

17 June 2002

House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem

14 February 2002

Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development

24 October 2001

Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!

06 June 2001

“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

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

14 June 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين

06 July 1993

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123

14 December 1984

“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1

31 December 1967

The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law

01 January 1964

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

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