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

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Humanitarians in Gaza: “Let us do our jobs!”
By :Various aid agencies
17 April 2025
“Let us do our jobs” — CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing   After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of
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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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Finally out! Multi-agency HLP Restitution Handbook for Middle East/North Africa
By :HIC-HLRN
26 February 2025
Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Middle East and North Africa At this 20th anniversary of the Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the Pinheiro Principles), an inter-agency consortium has published the advanced version of the handbook for
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Europe and Arab States Seek Alternative to Trump’s Gaza Plan
By :Andrew England, Financial Times
15 February 2025
Israel must stop killing civilians returning to their homes in South Lebanon: UN experts     GENEVA – Israel must respect the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, immediately end housing demolitions, ensure the safety of civilians returning to their homes, and fully withdraw its military from South Lebanon, UN experts* said today.   “We are gravely concerned
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Sudan: “Brink of catastrophe”
By :OCHA
06 February 2025
The Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, warned today that South Kordofan and Blue Nile states are on the brink of catastrophe, as the violence there continues to escalate at an alarming rate.   As of yesterday, the civilian death toll following recent shelling in South Kordofan’s capital Kadugli had increased to 80, with some
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Gaza Conditions ‘Unimaginable’ after 15 Months
By :Lorenzo Tondo and Malak A Tantesh, The Guardian
13 January 2025
Fifteen months of Israeli bombardment leave conditions in Gaza ‘unimaginable’ As hopes of a ceasefire grow, hunger and cold are adding to the suffering for the millions of Palestinians in the strip     Fifteen months into the war in Gaza, where more than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed and almost all of the population
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Yarmouk Camp in Ruins: Syria`s Palestinians` Darkest Chapter
By :Mawada Bahah, The New Arab
06 January 2025
In the ruins of Yarmouk, Syria`s Palestinians mourn their darkest chapter In-depth: Once the beating heart of Palestinian life in Syria, Yarmouk Camp came to symbolise some of the worst suffering during the country`s brutal war.   1x   Playback Rate The shattered walls and artillery-scarred pockmarks of Abdul Qader al-Husseini Mosque in Damascus’s Yarmouk Camp stand as
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With Full Purpose and Intent: Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians in Their Home, Refuge and Displacement
By :HIC-HLRN
29 November 2024
On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HIC-HLRN is sharing the most-recent products of its monitoring and documentation of the Indigenous People’s housing and land rights violations, abuses that form the heart of the Zionist colonial project. By invasion, acquisition of territory through force and deception, violent
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Israel Displaces 70,000 ‘exhausted’ Palestinians with Nowhere to Go
By :Wafaa Shurafa, AP and Middle East Eye
09 August 2024
70,000 Palestinians forcefully displaced are `exhausted, and they have nowhere to go`: Unrwa     The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) reports that an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people have fled the southern Gaza city toward al-Mawasi since yesterday, following Israeli orders.   “Displacement continues for thousands of families across Gaza,” Unrwa said in
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Documents (30)

Document Title

Publication Date

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors

15 February 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 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 (العدالة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

18 September 2022

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

16 March 2022

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 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

برنامج ورشة العمل الأولى لمشروع الملجأ في المدينة،بيروت

21 December 2016

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

الحكومات المحلية والمجتمعات المستضيفة تجاه أزمة اللاجئين، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

نماذج عملية للحق في المدينة، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

03 June 2016

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

01 June 2016

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

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

05 February 2007

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

S/RES/520 (1982)

17 September 1982

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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