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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Hundreds of Algerians Threatened with Eviction in France
By :Elikhbaria
20 April 2025
The French authorities in the Hauts-de-Seine region are planning to implement a dangerous project that directly targets hundreds of Algerians living in social housing, under the pretext of “fighting crime.” An agreement was signed between the police department, the Nanterre court and 35 social housing management bodies, allowing families to
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The Land and Its People: Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa
By :HIC-HLRN
20 August 2024

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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
20 June 2024
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs
By :HIC-HLRN
15 January 2022
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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Climate Justice
By :HIC-HLRN
25 November 2021

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HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board
By :Habitat International Coalition
16 November 2021

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Land, Women and Socio-Economic Development in the Arab Region: A Literature Review
By :Joseph Schechla
18 April 2021

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Land Day: Palestine`s Land Calls out for Freedom
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
30 March 2021
On the anniversary of Land Day ... the land of Palestine calls out for freedom   A statement issued by the Land Research Center on the 45th anniversary of the Immortal Earth Day On the obelisk of his laws, the Babylonian King Hammurabi (1793–1750 BC) wrote: “It is not permissible for a soldier,
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The GLTN Approach to Land
By :GLTN
24 February 2021

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Documents (58)

Document Title

Publication Date

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 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 (تعهدات الدولة)

19 September 2022

Climate Justice

25 November 2021

HIC Written Statement to UN-Habitat Executive Board

16 November 2021

The GLTN Approach to Land

24 February 2021

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

28 January 2021

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

28 January 2021

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي

14 June 2017

“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut

24 May 2017

Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017

05 May 2017

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), A/CONF.226/4

29 September 2016

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016

28 July 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports

24 July 2016

HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft

28 June 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

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

18 November 2015

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

Reporte National de México para Hábitat III

20 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 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

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

11 July 2013

World Social Forum – Tunisia

04 July 2012

Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012

04 July 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop

30 September 2011

Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City

01 July 2010

السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث

22 May 2010

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

01 October 2008

The challenges of the democratic management in Brazil: The right to the city

17 September 2008

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

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

02 October 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

Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households

30 September 2006

“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19

15 June 2006

Função social da propriedade: análise histórica

31 August 2005

In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar

31 December 2001

A Função Social da Propriedade

01 November 2001

Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures

21 July 2001

A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade

01 March 2000

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

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

16 June 1992

Land. That’s What Habitat Was About

23 June 1976

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

الملكية وظيفة غجتماعية" (خطاب حبيب بورقيبة)"

17 January 1967

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