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News (10)
A Lake Remade: How Manzala’s Waters Became Clear Enough to Fish for Money
By :Nada Arafat, Mostafa Hosny- Mada news
08 May 2025
For over 40 years, Mohamed Okasha earned his living fishing in Lake Manzala. It was his only livelihood — the means by which he fed his family, put his children through school and married them off. But over the decades, he watched the lake — or “the sea,” as locals
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European Energy & Ag Investments May Harm MENA Environment & Society
By :Greenpeace MENA
11 March 2025
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice. The report reveals how European investments in Morocco and Egypt’s oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture
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Another Illegitimate Gaza-reconstruction Plan
By :Tal Schneider, The New Arab
07 February 2025
The man with the plan: DC prof sent Trump study on Gaza relocation, development in July George Washington University economics professor Joseph Pelzman wrote detailed proposal for Trump’s team; says ‘you have to destroy the whole place, restart from scratch’     US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinians and then redevelop
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Financing the Green Transition in Tunisia
By :Shrouk Diaa
24 August 2024
Tunisia is at the heart of one of the most water-scarce regions on the planet. As the effects of climate change progress, some predict that Tunisia will rank 33rd among the world’s most water-stressed countries by 2040.   A study published in March 2024 ranked Tunisia as the fifth most vulnerable country
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CoP28 Delivers: What, Who and How They’re Pledging
By :Reuters
06 December 2023
Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much?     At this year`s U.N. climate summit, countries, development institutions and businesses are pledging more money for everything from the energy transition to health care initiatives, technology investments, disaster relief and more.   Hosts the United Arab Emirates said more than $83 billion had been
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Global Letter to UN & World Bank: Set Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
By :Equals Hope
17 July 2023
Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality    17 July 2023   Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,   RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality   As a group of economists and leaders in the fight
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Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern
By :Ali Noureddine, fanack.com
06 March 2023
Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern Current doubts about Iran privatization wave path stem from negative past experiences, lack of transparency and the absence of comprehensive economic plans.     The Iranian government is gearing up to generate 108,000 Iranian tomans in 2023 from the sale of government-owned assets.   In order to facilitate this process, the Iranian authorities have secured
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"HR, Environmental Law Must Govern Business"
By :David Boyd, OHCHR
04 July 2022
Human rights and environmental due diligence laws crucial to combat irresponsible business activities – UN expert   Press release   GENEVA—Rampant deforestation, chemical and plastic production, fossil fuel exploitation and other large-scale extractive activities by business entities are harming people and the planet, a UN expert said today, introducing a blueprint for laws to
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan
24 April 2022
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects
23 April 2022

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Documents (34)

Document Title

Publication Date

Table of Sudan`s Funded Green-transition Projects

23 April 2022

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

24 October 2021

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 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

Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond

13 July 2020

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

SDG 6

18 July 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities

23 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

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

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

19 July 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

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

18 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire

15 November 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (1)

18 July 2010

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

01 October 2008

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States

01 January 2002

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

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