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News (10)
The “Arab Belt” Project in Syria: 51 Years of Structural Discrimination and Denial of Justice
By :hevdesti.org
24 June 2025
A Facts Sheet Marking the Passage of 51 Years Since the Launch of the Discriminatory Project on June 24, 1974. On this day, June 24, 1974, the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party issued Decision No. 521, officially launching what became known as the “Arab Belt” Project—one of the
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Palestine: Final Ruling for the Eviction of Three Families
By :Peacenow.org
23 June 2025
Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein summarily rejected yesterday (June 22, 2025) the appeal of the Um Nasser Rajabi family (18 people) and ruled that they must [vacate] their home, where they have lived since the 1970s, in favor of settlers. The ruling followed Justice Solberg’s decision last week (16 June
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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
By :OHCHR
22 June 2025
Purpose: To inform the report to be presented to the General Assembly in October 2025 for the 80th Session (UNGA80). Background The groundbreaking Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem by the International
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5 June 1967 Anniversary amid Israel`s Consistent Violation of International Law
By :Jamal Talab al-Amleh, Land Research Center
05 June 2025
Introduction   The Israeli occupation state has emerged through repeated initiatives by colonial powers seeking political and economic control over the Arab region (West Asia and North Africa). In 1799, after the defeat of his armies at the walls of Acre and their failure to occupy Palestine and the Levant, the French
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Under Siege: Urban Development in Egypt’s Warraq Island
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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UN Experts Demand Morocco Stop Demolishing Occupied Sahrawi Homes
By :WSRW
02 June 2025
Eight UN rapporteurs call on Morocco to stop tearing down Saharawi property as the Kingdom expands green energy projects in occupied Western Sahara.    In a statement published last week, eight UN Special Rapporteurs have denounced Morocco’s ongoing campaign of repression, racial discrimination, and violence against Sahrawi human rights defenders, journalists, and
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt
By :Diwan Al-Omran
30 May 2025

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Thousands Families Face Forced Eviction by Armed Police
By :Horn Observer Contributor
17 May 2025
MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) – Armed police units led by Mogadishu`s Galbeed Police Station Commander, Yasin Ganey, launched a dawn raid on Saturday targeting a displaced community living in the former Pharmaceutical Factory (Ex-Warshadda Daawada) along the Afgooye-Mogadishu road. This marks the second such assault on the settlement in less than
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Al-Haq Launches Genocide Legal Brief Series
By :AlHaq
12 May 2025
Al-Haq announces the launch of its Genocide Legal Brief Series, examining different elements of the crime of genocide, as a legal toolkit for practitioners working on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. As Israel continues its intensified genocidal assault on Palestinians with impunity, characterised by open statements of genocidal intent,
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Reparation Bibliography
By :HIC-HLRN
06 May 2025

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Documents (97)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 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 (technical)

23 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)

20 February 2025

بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون

07 October 2024

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

06 January 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food

09 December 2022

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 (جبر الضرر)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية

18 September 2022

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

16 March 2022

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

31 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid

01 September 2020

لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير

13 July 2020

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

13 July 2020

Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court

29 April 2020

Statement on the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the Situation in Palestine, and seeking a ruling on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction

20 December 2019

بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة

20 December 2019

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

06 September 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

Nuremberg judgments

10 December 2018

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

Process from Problem to Solution (graphic)

12 November 2018

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

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

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

30 October 2017

التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

30 October 2017

Land Forum VI program

25 October 2017

The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report

01 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool

28 August 2016

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 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 @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 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

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

04 December 2015

Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

15 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”

01 September 2014

ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles

11 July 2013

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

01 December 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :

02 February 2010

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

28 December 2009

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

02 October 2007

Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

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

26 August 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

Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

21 November 2006

The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life

16 May 2006

Principes fondamentaux et directives concernant le droit à un recours et à réparation des victimes de violations flagrantes du droit international des droits de l’homme et de violations graves du droit international humanitaire, A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations, A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية بشأن الحق في الانتصاف والجبر لضحايا الانتهاكات الجسيمة للقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان والانتهاكات الخطيرة للقانون الإنساني الدولي، A/RES/60/147

21 March 2006

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

رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)

20 June 2005

Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)

20 June 2005

Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28

16 April 2004

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

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