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Israeli Supreme Court Freezes Mass Demolitions in Tulkarem
By :Adalah
03 July 2025
Israeli Supreme Court Issues Injunction Freezing Mass Demolitions in Tulkarem Following Adalah’s Petition on Behalf of Palestinian Refugees   Petitioners’ homes lie adjacent to vacant land, undermining the Israeli military’s claim of needing operational space. The Court instructed the military not to carry out the demolitions in the meantime and ordered the
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First Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress, Vienna
By :HIC-HLRN
17 June 2025
As the world bears witness to the Western state governments indulge Israel`s genocide against the Palestinian people, activists of Jewish faith and background concluded their first Anti-Zionism Congress in Vienna, 13­­­–16 June 2025. It met at the very crux of the matter.   The host city of Vienna was symbolic also as
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Israeli War on Iran: Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed
By :Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages
14 June 2025
Israeli War on Iran: Jewish Nationals’ Wartime Shelter, Indigenous Palestinian Citizens Left Exposed Tonight, in the Palestinian “unrecognized villages” of the Naqab, hundreds of families are sleeping in fear, with no shelter to protect them from the missiles above.   They are taking refuge in school buildings.   Some are sleeping under the open sky.   Others,
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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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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review
30 May 2025

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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria
By :HIC-HLRN, Together for the Protection of the Human and the Environment (Iraq), Insight (Syria), Dibeen Association for Environmental Development (Jordan)
30 May 2025

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On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
15 May 2025

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On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe
By :Land Research Center - Jerusalem
15 May 2025
On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe   A Report by Land Research Center on the 77th Anniversary of the First Palestinian Nakba (1948) "After they shot her husband and her five-year-old son before her eyes, she pleaded them to let her two-year-old son
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Israeli Cabinet Dispossesses Palestinians from Area C Lands
By :Peace Now
12 May 2025
The Cabinet Decides to Initiate Land Registration Process that would Dispossess Palestinians from their Lands the West Bank Update from 14/5/25: The State attached the text of the cabinet decision to a request it submitted to the court. The cabinet decision could be found here.   On Sunday, 11/5/25, the Security Cabinet decided to initiate land registration
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Israel Seizes Control of West Bank`s Area C Land Registry, Cementing Annexation
By :Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin, Middle East Eye
12 May 2025
Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank`s Area C, cementing annexation Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank     Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in Area C of the
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Documents (157)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

30 May 2025

On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe

15 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparation Bibliography

06 May 2025

CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

06 September 2023

Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT

06 September 2023

Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts

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

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 (الأطراف الفاعلة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)

19 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)

19 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)

19 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية

18 September 2022

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

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)

18 September 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

06 May 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

New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen

24 October 2021

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

24 October 2021

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

24 October 2021

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

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 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

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip

10 November 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

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

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

30 July 2020

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

28 July 2020

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

29 April 2020

Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues

22 March 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

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

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

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

06 September 2019

The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations

06 September 2019

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

WLH Kampala Workshop Report

14 May 2019

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

17 January 2019

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas

20 November 2018

Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT

22 October 2018

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2018

SDG Land Indicators

01 September 2018

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

SDG Land Indicators presentation

27 April 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية

26 February 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 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

Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine

23 August 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment

27 June 2017

General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities

23 June 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

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016

31 December 2016

“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

19 December 2016

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

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

19 July 2016

Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report

01 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

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau

19 March 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

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

07 March 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

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 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 2030 A/RES/70/1

21 October 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

البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود

28 May 2015

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2014

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

12 August 2013

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik, Mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, A/HRC/22/4

24 December 2012

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds

17 March 2011

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

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

28 December 2009

إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا

03 July 2009

Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa

03 July 2009

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

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

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

26 August 2007

Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 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

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 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

“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”

05 May 2003

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1

17 June 2002

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1

17 June 2002

“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

”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

Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 1994

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

Christopher M. Goebel, “A Unified Concept of Population Transfer”

01 October 1993

إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين

06 July 1993

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

16 June 1992

Claire Palley, "Population Transfer and International Law"

12 January 1992

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

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146

16 December 1982

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

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