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Israeli Court Approves Demolition of Nur Shams Palestinian Homes
By :Adalah
28 December 2025
Israeli Supreme Court Greenlights Mass Demolition of Civilian Homes in Nur Shams, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank, Relying on Secret Evidence     The Israeli Supreme Court issued a late-night ruling on Christmas eve, 24 December 2025, rejecting a petition filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab
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Palestinian Woman Describes Israeli Eviction as ‘painful uprooting’
By :Gulsen Topcu, Qais Omar Darwesh Omar and Kanyshai Butun, Anadolu Acensi
24 December 2025
Palestinian woman evicted from her home by Israel faces ‘painful uprooting’ ‘I have nothing left. My furniture, my gold, my savings, even the ring on my finger is gone,’ says Nihaye El-Cundi, 54     TULKAREM, Palestine / ISTANBUL—A Palestinian woman forcibly displaced from her home in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the
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Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court on Mass Nur Shams Demolitions
By :Adalah
24 December 2025
Israeli Supreme Court to Hear Adalah Petition Challenging Planned Mass Demolitions in Nur Shams Refugee Camp     The planned demolitions would put hundreds of Palestinian refugees at risk of homelessness and forcible displacement. The military has justified the demolitions on the grounds of alleged “military necessity,” even though the camp has been
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Israel Defense Mionister Affirms to Resettle North Gaza ‘at appropriate time’
23 December 2025
Defying PM and Washington, Katz says Israel will resettle north Gaza ‘at appropriate time’     Contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated assertions that Israel does not plan to resettle Gaza, as well as the US peace plan for the enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz tells settlements leaders, “With God’s help when the
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Israel Demolition of Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem`s Ra`s al-`Amud
By :T.R., WAFA
22 December 2025
Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs calls for urgent international intervention to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem Demolition of residential building in Ra’s al-`Amoud displaces nearly 100 people, mostly women and children Israeli demolitions escalate, targeting 464 buildings and structures since the start of 2025   JERUSALEM—This morning, Monday, the Israeli
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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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Jordan Valley: New 22-km-long IDF `Barrier` Demolishes Homes, Sheep Pens and Infrastructure, Isolating Villages, Cuts off 11 Acres Land
By :Amira Hass, Haaretz
03 December 2025
In order to construct a 22-km long `barrier,` the IDF will demolish homes, sheep pens and infrastructure that `constitute an operational vulnerability,` according to a military document. One of the villages will be entirely surrounded by the fence. Residents of the area were only given a few days to file
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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 Gaza” Initiative to Move 2 million Palestinians
By :Ron Ben-Yishai, Y-net News
01 December 2025
Israeli occupation forces [referred to as IDF in this article] try to control the narrative of its genocide in Palestine while a US-backed `New Gaza` pilot in Rafah moves slowly forward. The term “resistance fighters” here replaces the author’s use of the word “terrorists”—HLRN.     US `New Gaza` initiative seeks to move
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Publication Date

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

26 June 2025

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

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

11 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

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19

05 October 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

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

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

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

30 July 2020

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

30 July 2020

“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”

15 November 2019

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

New York City SDG-reporting press release

01 May 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 2017

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

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

15 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad

01 September 2011

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 2003

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1

17 June 2002

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

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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