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News (10)
HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
05 April 2026
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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Now available: Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 34
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2026
Now available: The latest issue of Land Timesأحوال الأرض/  No. 34 bears witness to the rupture of our present-day, it also seeks to be part of the remedy.   Find a summary of the contents in the editorial [AR], with a critical review of new and contentious terms in the “Terminology Corner,”
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“My Land is the Freedom I will Never Compromise” 50th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day
By :Waed Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
30 March 2026
“My land is my soul, my identity, my home,” this was Umm Rafiq’s response, a farmer from Sinjil currently facing vicious settler violence and depopulation attempts, when we asked her what her land meant to her.    Today marks the 50th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day. Despite the ongoing horrors by Israel and its allies, whether the Israeli
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Why So Long to Declare ‘likely’ Famine in Gaza
By :Cormac Ó Gráda, Irish Times
23 March 2026
Why it took months for the world to declare ‘likely’ famine in Gaza Given the bombing, displacement and blockade, a more relevant question may be how a major famine was averted. Part of the answer surely lies in Gaza’s human and social capital     In late 2023, less than three months into the
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Israel Accelerates Colonization under Cover of War
By :Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker
14 March 2026
How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.     In the past several years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has entrenched Israeli control of the West Bank, vastly increasing the number of “authorized” settlements and
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Palestinians Face Death Fishing Gaza’s Israeli-controlled Sea
By :Ahmed Al-Najjar, Aljazeera
08 March 2026
Palestinians risk life and limb to fish in Gaza’s Israeli-controlled sea Gaza’s fishing industry collapses under Israeli blockade, leaving fishermen risking their lives for minimal catches.     Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – On the blue, wavy surface off the Khan Younis seaport, two Palestinian fishermen paddled their small, battered boat nearly 200 metres
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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 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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Palestinian Woman Defies Land Seizure, Living in a Cave and Driving a Tractor
By :Wisal Abu Alia, Palestine National News
04 February 2026
Palestinian Woman Defies Land Seizure by Living in a Cave and Driving a Tractor     RAMALLAH—In al-Khalayel, south of the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, heroism is not measured by slogans but by the ability to endure. There, Fatima Osama Abu Naim chose to confront land confiscation and settlement expansion in
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Documents (87)

Document Title

Publication Date

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

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

09 March 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 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

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on impacts of climate change

09 December 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

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان

24 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

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

30 July 2020

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara

19 September 2019

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

06 September 2019

Enriched Normative Framework on Right to Food 2018

31 March 2019

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

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

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 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

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

09 July 2017

تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت

15 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

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

نماذج عملية للحق في المدينة، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports

24 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

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

19 July 2016

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

03 June 2016

Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)

24 May 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

General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women

07 March 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 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

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

23 October 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon

01 September 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية لضمان الاستدامة لمصائد الأسماك صغيرة النطاق في سياق الأمن الغذائي والقضاء على الفقر

03 March 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2014

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

12 August 2013

High Level Expert Forum on Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises Report (September 2012)

14 September 2012

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

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

24 March 2009

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3

06 June 2008

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7

11 May 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16

11 August 2005

التعليق العام رقم 15، الحق في الماء

20 January 2003

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

14 June 1996

“Report on the Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right,” E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/23

07 July 1987

Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

06 June 1986

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين

28 July 1951

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