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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
11 November 2025

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New VDB Annual Report: "Imagining Reparation"
By :HIC-HLRN
31 October 2025
This 2025 annual report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB), Imagining Reparation: Data, Numbers and Entitlements from Protracted Habitat Rights Violations, focuses on the concept of reparation for housing, land, and property (HLP) rights violations, particularly in the context of Palestine. It builds on previous HLRN reports analyzing violations documented in
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Trump’s Gaza Riviera Plan: Population Transfer, `Digital Tokens` for Palestinian land
By :Reuters
31 August 2025
Post-war Gaza plan sees relocation of population, `digital token` for Palestinian land: Washington Post     Summary Plan reportedly involves temporary relocation and redevelopment of Gaza Trump`s previous comments on Gaza plan angered Palestinians, humanitarian groups Israeli forces escalate operations around Gaza City, declare it combat zone     A post-war plan for Gaza is circulating within President Donald Trump`s administration
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Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza
By :Nur Arafeh and Mandy Turner, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
24 July 2025
Destruction, Disempowerment, and Dispossession: Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza Once Israel’s war in the territory is brought to an end, the foundational principles guiding reconstruction should be Palestinian self-determination, local agency, and sovereignty.     Introduction   Israel’s war against Gaza has devastated Palestinian life there and destroyed the territory’s political economy and infrastructure.
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New Global Coalition Urges Rights-Based Climate Relocation Policies
By :Erica Bower, Charlotte Finegold, Human Rights Watch
25 June 2025
Last week, Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global alliance working to ensure communities forced to plan relocations due to climate change can do so on their own terms and with dignity. Over two days in New York City, more than
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Women in the Wake of Floods
By :Habitat Defenders Africa (HDA) and HIC-HLRN
10 June 2025
This report presents the outcomes of applying the Climate Change Impact-assessment and Justice Tool (CCIAJT) to produce community-led data on the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households in the 2025 flooding in Kosovo Informal Settlement, Kampala, Uganda.   The enumeration exercise has resulted in a conservative estimate of €55,021 in
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Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza
By :Architects for Gaza/TRT
26 April 2025
Destruction, Resistance, and Rebuilding in Gaza     War is not only fought with weapons; it is also waged through space. Gaza’s destruction is more than just rubble; it’s an assault on a people’s ability to exist, rebuild and return. “Architecture can be a form of resistance,” says Adam Khan, a volunteer architect
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Arab Gaza-reconstruction Plan Continues Israeli Designs
By :Forensic Architecture
12 March 2025
At the summit last week on 4 March, a new plan for Gaza’s reconstruction was presented by Arab leaders as an alternative to Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza. Our analysis indicates that this initiative—which has gained support from the European Council—includes an architectural master plan that carries forward
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Gaza Reconstruction Principles: It Must Be Palestinian Led
05 March 2025
Gaza Reconstruction Must Be Palestinian Led—Breaking the Cycle of Destruction     The signatories of this position—groups and organizations representing a broad swath of Palestinian civil society in Palestine and in exile—stand firmly by key principles and demands that must guide Gaza’s reconstruction and recovery, as well as Palestine’s broader future. This process
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Explaining Egypt`s Gaza Reconstruction Plan
By :Ahram Online
05 March 2025
Explainer: Everything you need to know about Egypt`s Gaza reconstruction plan Egypt has developed a comprehensive reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, which is counter to US President Donald Trump`s Gaza plan to take over Gaza and displace its Palestinian population.     Ahram Online obtained a draft of Egypt`s reconstruction plan for Gaza.
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Document Title

Publication Date

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)

19 September 2022

مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية

18 September 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 2022

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

28 January 2021

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 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

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 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

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21

04 December 2015

"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC

18 November 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya

01 December 2012

Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory

01 April 2010

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)

28 December 2009

Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

“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

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