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News (10)
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt
By :Diwan Al-Omran
30 May 2025

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Humanitarians in Gaza: “Let us do our jobs!”
By :Various aid agencies
17 April 2025
“Let us do our jobs” — CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing   After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of
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Israel’s Designs for Jenin…beyond Destruction
By :Majd Jawad, +972
16 April 2025
Israel’s Designs for Jenin…beyond Destruction Majd Jawad, +972  16 April 2025   Israel’s designs for Jenin refugee camp are about more than just destruction After being expelled from their homes, residents watch from afar as the army re-engineers the camp to inhibit resistance and undermine the right of return.     For almost three months, Jenin refugee camp
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Syria: The Day After Statements on State Building
By :The Day After
27 March 2025
Current reporting from The Day After (TDA) reflects the challenges of state building in Syria, including needed remedies for the millions of displaced persons and restitution of millions of homes destroyed and stripped down appropriated by the Asad government agents and cronies. Read TDA’s statement below with links to the
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Global Housing Crisis 2025
By :HIC-HLRN
04 February 2025
Ipsos Group S.A., whose name derives from the Latin expression, ipso facto, is a multinational market research and consulting firm headquartered in Paris, has issued its first edition of the Ipsos Housing Monitor. This 30-country study explores people`s perceptions of their own personal housing situation and aspirations, and what they
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Humanitarian Aid to Gaza: ‘A drop in an ocean of need’
By :Doaa El-Bey, ahram.online
03 December 2024
‘A drop in an ocean of need’  Participants in a conference aiming to enhance humanitarian aid to Gaza underlined the importance of the role played by UNRWA     The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is “grossly insufficient, inconsistent and unpredictable — a drop in an ocean of need”, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina
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UN: New Plan to Deliver Lifesaving Aid to Gaza
By :UN
24 April 2024
UN coordinator in Gaza announces new plan to deliver lifesaving aid A new mechanism for getting lifesaving aid into Gaza will start in the coming days, UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator Sigrid Kaag announced in a briefing to the Security Council on Wednesday.     “The operationalisation of the mechanism will allow for
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New Reports Reveal Violations of HLP Rights in Syria and the Repercussions of Early Recovery Projects
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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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review
By :Al-Haq, Addameer, HIC-HLRN, JLAC, CIHRS
31 January 2022

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World Bank: Lebanon Elite’s `Zombie` Economy
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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Documents (50)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt

30 May 2025

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

31 January 2022

SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR

07 April 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 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

Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues

22 March 2020

Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT

22 October 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016

28 July 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 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

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

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

02 February 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response

14 January 2016

Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development

22 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

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

21 October 2015

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector

01 September 2015

تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270

04 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

الممارسات العمرانية الموازية في مصر 2015

29 June 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012

04 July 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

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

01 October 2008

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

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

05 September 2000

Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda

30 June 1996

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

Agenda 21

14 June 1992

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"

01 March 1946

Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"

01 March 1946

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