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HIC-wide Inputs to UN Special Rapporteur Study on Land and Housing Rights
By :HIC-HLRN
03 June 2025
In response to a call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal, HIC Members and structures have provided six important inputs to the SR’s study on land and the right to housing. You can find these inputs at the following links: HLRN Global: “Land and the right to
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Vote for Food: Mogadishu IDP Women Speak Out on Forced Registration
By :Ali Yusuf, hornobserver.com
25 May 2025
MOGADISHU--Women and teenagers living in displacement camps around Mogadishu say they are being terrorized and coerced by individuals claiming to represent Somalia`s so-called Independent Electoral Commission in an effort to forcefully register them for a controversial vote. Maryan Jeylani Maye, a mother of seven residing in a makeshift shelter on the
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Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (technical)
23 April 2025

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Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)
By :Training materials on the international law and human rights framework that guides interventions in, and remedy for the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households affected by climate change-associated flooding.
22 April 2025

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Israeli Settlers Encroach on West Bank Herders’ Grazing Land
By :Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie; additional reporting by Joyce Zhou in Ein al-Auja; editing by Peter Graff, Reuters
18 April 2025
Herders under growing pressure as West Bank settlers encroach on grazing land     Summary   Israeli shepherd outposts take 14% of West Bank, report says Herding communities under growing economic pressure Grazing land targeted by settlers     AL-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank—Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing
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Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era
By :Arab Womens Network
10 March 2025

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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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Al-Haq Endorses Call for ICC to Investigate US Officials for Palestine Genocide 25 Feb 2025
By :Al-Haq
20 February 2025
Al-Haq calls on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to hold Biden, Blinken and Austin Accountable for Aiding and Abetting Genocide in Gaza                                                    Prepared with the input of International Criminal Court-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, Al-Haq strongly supports the 172-page communication submitted by DAWN [Democracy in the Arab World
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Arab Region Reiterates Commitment to Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action @ 30
09 December 2024
Arab region reiterates commitment to Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action after 30 years in Muscat Declaration BEIRUT-MUSCAT—Oman today hosted the High-Level Regional Meeting on progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 years after their adoption. The event brought together ministers and senior officials from national women’s
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Gaza: People Walk kms in Search of Bread
By :Aljazeera
04 December 2024
People walk miles searching for bread amid Gaza’s war shortages Millions of Palestinians face the threat of famine as food supplies reach new lows.     Faced with major food shortages after nearly 14 months of war, Palestinians describe long days hunting for flour or bread in the conflict-ravaged Gaza Strip.   Every morning, crowds form
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Documents (128)

Document Title

Publication Date

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (technical)

23 April 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)

22 April 2025

Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era

10 March 2025

أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية

10 March 2025

استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)

09 March 2025

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT

06 September 2023

Reflexiones de las OSC sobre el décimo aniversario de los VGGT

06 September 2023

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

New: In Pursuit of Climate Change

13 October 2022

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on women`s political leadership

20 May 2022

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

31 January 2022

Joint Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

20 January 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

The Land and Its People:Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa.

01 June 2021

Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique

10 February 2021

Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa

10 February 2021

HIC Women in Africa PPT

10 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

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 2020

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

WLH Kampala Workshop Report

14 May 2019

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Campesinos y de Otras Personas que Trabajan en las Zonas Rurales

20 November 2018

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales

20 November 2018

Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT

22 October 2018

SDG Land Indicators

01 September 2018

SDG Land Indicators presentation

27 April 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

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

23 April 2018

إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية

26 February 2018

Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

26 January 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

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

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 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

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016

28 July 2016

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

24 July 2016

Compilation of Habitat II Commitments

22 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Gender Equality

21 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Safety and Security

21 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

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

19 July 2016

HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft

28 June 2016

Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III

28 June 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

General recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women

07 March 2016

التوصية العامة رقم 34 بشأن حقوق المرأة الريفية

07 March 2016

Recommandation générale No 34 sur les droits des femmes rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

Recomendación general núm. 34 (2016) sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales, CEDAW/C/GC/34

07 March 2016

The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

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

04 December 2015

"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

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270

04 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 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

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

Sanctuary in the city_ Urban displacement and vulnerability in Damascus A desk study

15 December 2011

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

Urban policies and the right to the city: Rights Responsibilities and Citizenship

16 March 2009

“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

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

26 August 2007

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, 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

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

16 May 2006

قضايا جوهرية ناشئة عن تنفيذ العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 16

11 August 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

Charter for Women`s Right to the City

01 September 2004

Gender Equality in UN-Habitat

01 January 2004

Women and Habitat: A History

01 January 2004

Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2

11 June 2001

Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2

09 June 2001

European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

18 May 2000

Gender and the Habitat Agenda: Engendering Our Human Settlements

01 April 1999

“Women’s access, control and tenure of land, property and settlement”

25 July 1998

Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda

30 June 1996

Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14

14 June 1996

Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14

14 June 1996

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

European Charter for Women in the City

01 March 1994

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

16 June 1992

لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"

13 December 1991

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

06 June 1986

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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