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UN SR`s Survey on Land and the Right to Food Now Available |
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By :OHCHR |
| 12 November 2025 |
The survey on Land and the Right to Food by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food is now available in English, French, and Spanish.
This survey seeks to gather insights and experiences from a wide range of stakeholders — including small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, youth, civil
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New VDB Annual Report: "Imagining Reparation" |
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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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3rd Arab Land Conference Report is Out! |
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By :The Arab Land Initiative Team, GLTN |
| 23 October 2025 |
The Final Report is out, and so are all the session recordings and materials! Whether you joined us in person, participated online or couldn’t make it, this is your opportunity to explore the Conference’s key insights on land governance across the Arab region through its most pressing themes, including
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UN Report Urges Action to End Homelessness |
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By :UN Habitat |
| 09 October 2025 |
UN report calls for urgent action to end homelessness
NEW YORK—Homelessness is rising in every region and must be addressed as a structural crisis rooted in inequality, unaffordable housing, and weak social protection, according to a new United Nations report presented today to the General Assembly.
Prepared by UN-Habitat on behalf of the UN Secretary-General,
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Two Years of Genocide: U.S. Military Aid to Israel, Oct. 2023 – Sept. 2025 |
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By :HLRN and William D. Hartung |
| 07 October 2025 |
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 – September 2025
At this two-year marker in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, we reflect on the role of the United States in aiding, abetting and arming that crime of crimes.
In addition to the incalculable benefit to Israel of U.S.
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US and EU Snactions Have Killed 38 Million in 1970-2021 |
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By :HLRN |
| 17 September 2025 |
New research published in The Lancet finds that unilateral Western sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
Amid staggering levels of violence, the researcher authors conclude that the system and practice are intolerable and must be replaced.
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The August 2025 Palestine Economic Update Is Out |
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By :MAS |
| 06 September 2025 |
The Palestine Economic Update - August 2025 is out now.
Key Messages :
Settlers have targeted key water infrastructure near Ramallah, while Israel curbs supply across the West Bank and blocks infrastructure development, fuelling a recurring and manufactured water crisis.
The PA’s limited security jurisdiction hinders its ability to curb water theft, yet
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Millions at Risk of Eviction as Egypt Overhauls Rent Laws |
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By :Ibrahim Ezzeldin, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy |
| 17 July 2025 |
Around 1.6 million families are at risk of losing their homes as Egypt reforms laws governing rent control.
In recent months, Sahar* started following the proceedings of Egypt’s parliament for the first time in her life, as lawmakers discussed a legislation that could cost her the house she has been living
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Palestine: Gazans More Crowded Than Guantanamo Prisoners |
| 08 July 2025 |
Palestinians in Gaza have less space than detainees in Guantanamo Bay
Palestinian Territory – After 21 months of continuous Israeli assault, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are confined to less than 15 per cent of the enclave, i.e. no more than 55 km². Approximately 2.3 million people are crammed into suffocating conditions,
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Western Sahara: A Record Few Phosphate Importers |
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By :WSRW |
| 26 June 2025 |
WSRW report: Record low number of phosphate importers
For the twelfth year in a row, WSRW publishes a detailed, annual overview of the companies involved in the purchase of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has never before recorded as few clients of phosphate rock from occupied Western
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Document Title
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Publication Date |
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review
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30 May 2025 |
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria
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30 May 2025 |
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain
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30 May 2025 |
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Reparation Bibliography
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06 May 2025 |
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
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23 April 2025 |
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Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024
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27 October 2024 |
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سبل معالجة النزوح الناجم عن تغير المناخ والنزاعات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا- يونيو 2024
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27 October 2024 |
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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia
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23 August 2024 |
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Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change
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21 November 2023 |
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Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023
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30 October 2023 |
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Climate Finance in Egypt (table)
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10 March 2023 |
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Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
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27 December 2022 |
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Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa
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30 November 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)
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21 September 2022 |
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الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)
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18 September 2022 |
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How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB
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07 September 2022 |
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Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV
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07 September 2022 |
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UN system practices for selected agencies, funds and programmes
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15 June 2022 |
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Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction
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20 May 2022 |
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تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان
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23 April 2022 |
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Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
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16 March 2022 |
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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review
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31 January 2022 |
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Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW
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20 January 2022 |
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Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole
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07 January 2022 |
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New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen
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24 October 2021 |
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Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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24 October 2021 |
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Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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24 October 2021 |
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Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire
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18 October 2021 |
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Un derecho humano a la tierra
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05 August 2021 |
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Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid
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31 May 2021 |
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The GLTN Approach to Land
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24 February 2021 |
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A Human Right to Land
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24 February 2021 |
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Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique
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10 February 2021 |
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Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa
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10 February 2021 |
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HIC Women in Africa PPT
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10 February 2021 |
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التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن
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28 January 2021 |
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Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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28 January 2021 |
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Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid
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28 January 2021 |
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تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
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How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan
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09 December 2020 |
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Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip
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10 November 2020 |
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"A Pandemic of Violations"
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05 October 2020 |
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جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19
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05 October 2020 |
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الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية
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04 October 2020 |
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House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region
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25 September 2020 |
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Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid
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16 September 2020 |
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Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats
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30 August 2020 |
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Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses
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30 July 2020 |
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Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses
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30 July 2020 |
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Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR
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03 April 2020 |
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Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development
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09 February 2020 |
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Land Inequality Framing Document
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30 October 2019 |
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Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat
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06 September 2019 |
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Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie
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13 July 2019 |
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Milestones in UN Habitat’s Cooperation with Stakeholders: Forward and Backward
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14 May 2019 |
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Charting UN Habitat-Stakeholder Engagement
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14 May 2019 |
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Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence
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05 December 2018 |
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Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga
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06 June 2018 |
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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
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06 May 2018 |
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الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين
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23 April 2018 |
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Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement
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02 September 2017 |
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The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report
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01 August 2017 |
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
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“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs
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10 July 2017 |
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“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut
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24 May 2017 |
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Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017
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05 May 2017 |
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الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي
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15 March 2017 |
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تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة
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28 February 2017 |
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المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة
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23 January 2017 |
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The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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28 October 2016 |
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Introduction to Loss Matrix/EvIA Tool
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28 August 2016 |
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Eviction Impact Assessment Tool
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27 August 2016 |
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Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,
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12 August 2016 |
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A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports
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24 July 2016 |
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Sanctuary in the City: Beirut
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01 June 2016 |
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تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015
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19 January 2016 |
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"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
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Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
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Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016
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16 November 2015 |
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منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)
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21 September 2015 |
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Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon
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01 September 2015 |
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“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49
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07 August 2015 |
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HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
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National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool
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20 July 2015 |
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HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report
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15 June 2015 |
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The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law
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15 May 2015 |
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Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates
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11 May 2015 |
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National Habitat III Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and Civil Society Participation
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12 March 2015 |
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Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”
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11 March 2015 |
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HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire
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15 November 2014 |
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The Right to the City: Cairo
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03 November 2014 |
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The Right to the City: Jerusalem
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26 October 2014 |
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“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”
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01 September 2014 |
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Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”
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01 September 2014 |
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Abu Ghalib Village Reparations
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16 March 2014 |
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ACIJ دراسات الحالة
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06 September 2013 |
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دراسة حالة سمارتان
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06 September 2013 |
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ETOs and Transnational Corruption
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11 July 2013 |
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ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles
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11 July 2013 |
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Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village
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12 December 2012 |
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Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District
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24 January 2012 |
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The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar
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30 June 2011 |
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Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds
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17 March 2011 |
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مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف
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24 March 2009 |
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A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide
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15 July 2008 |
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Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
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15 June 2008 |
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Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2008/3
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06 June 2008 |
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إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود
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15 June 2006 |
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“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19
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15 June 2006 |
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Report on Indicators for Monitoring Compliance with International Human Rights Instruments, HRI/MC/2006/7
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11 May 2006 |
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Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games
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31 December 2005 |
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Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)
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11 March 2005 |
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La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition
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01 July 2003 |
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“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”
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05 May 2003 |
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House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem
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14 February 2002 |
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تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة
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14 February 2002 |
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Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States
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01 January 2002 |
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”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
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22 June 1999 |
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The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18
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30 June 1994 |
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Christopher M. Goebel, “A Unified Concept of Population Transfer”
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01 October 1993 |
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The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17
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06 July 1993 |
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Right to the City in Greater Beirut p
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01 January 1970 |
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Right to the City in Greater Beirut p
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01 January 1970 |
