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Under Siege: Urban Development in Egypt’s Warraq Island |
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By :Ibrahim Ezzeldin, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy |
| 04 June 2025 |
In the heart of Greater Cairo, residents of the Nile island of Warraq are fighting against a government-backed urban development scheme.
“These are not images of Manhattan Island!”
With this statement, the State Information Service, the Egyptian government’s media arm, showcased the new development plan of Warraq, the country’s largest island on
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain |
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By :HIC-AL and the Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), with HIC-GS, HIC-MENA and HIC-HLRN |
| 30 May 2025 |
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil |
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By :Catalytic Communities (Brazil) |
| 30 May 2025 |
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New Reports Reveal Violations of HLP Rights in Syria and the Repercussions of Early Recovery Projects |
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By :The Day After |
| 10 January 2024 |
The Day After published two new studies, in addition to a series of previous studies and reports on HLP rights, a matter that has turned to a commodity for negotiation with Syrian society and a source of influence instead of a protected right for individuals.
The first study, entitled “The Violation
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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World Bank: Lebanon Elite’s `Zombie` Economy |
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By :Yousef Saba and Nadine Awadalla, Reuters |
| 25 January 2022 |
World Bank berates Lebanon`s elite for `zombie` economy
Summary
Rulers have `captured` the state for economic gain, bank says
Lebanon`s economic implosion one of world`s worst ever
GDP has plunged by 58% since 2019 in `zombie` economy: report
DUBAI—The World Bank blasted Lebanon`s ruling class on Tuesday for "orchestrating" one of the world`s worst national
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Archiving What They’ve Done to Mecca |
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By :Mahdi Chowdhury, Hypocrite Reader, Issue 99 |
| 04 December 2021 |
Archives of Salt
“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory.” —Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
“We were students of Jean Sénac’s single insistence; to unequivocally affirm our presence in the reality of this land.” —Momtaza Mehri, “On Pop & Petroleum”
In 1938, using the stars, the Bedouin navigator guided a group of
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Tel Aviv Eviction: 1st Arabs, Then Mizrahi Jews |
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By :Ran Shimoni, Haaretz |
| 15 November 2021 |
Tel Aviv Evicts Residents of Working-class Neighborhood after a Decades-long Battle
Some of the Givat Amal residents are barricading in their homes as police are trying to evict them
Police evicted the final 32 families from Tel Aviv’s Givat Amal Bet neighborhood on Monday, after 60 years of legal battles and even
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Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing @ 20 |
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By :OHCHR |
| 22 June 2021 |
Today, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council: “20 years Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Tacking stock – moving forward”
The report (A/HRC/47/43) highlights key achievements and contributions of the mandate since its establishment
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Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid |
| 31 May 2021 |
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