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Gaza’s Displacement Camps Face Deadly Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides |
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By :Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss |
| 09 November 2026 |
Gaza’s displacement camps face deadly winter storms, flooding, and landslides
Three children and one woman were killed in central Gaza after heavy rain caused a sand embankment to collapse onto displaced families` tents.
When Tahrir Nabhan, her sister, and their three children went to sleep in a tent carefully pitched beneath a
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Portugal and Spain Struggle as EU Housing Black Spots |
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By :Inês Lopes, Portugal Resident |
| 11 October 2026 |
Portugal and Spain struggle as EU housing black spots
Iberian neighbours afflicted by vast property shortages due to immigration, bureaucracy and high construction costs
Portugal and Spain are struggling with some of the EU’s worst housing crises, as immigration-driven population growth, bureaucracy and high construction costs combine to create severe property shortages.
Such
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Syria: Reconstruction Deals Lack Critical Rights Framework |
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By :HRW |
| 27 September 2026 |
Government, Donors, Investors Should Ensure Rebuilding Serves Communities
The Syrian transitional government is signing billions of dollars in reconstruction deals without a human rights framework that would ensure that rebuilding respects, protects, and fulfills the rights of affected people, Human Rights Watch said today.
In March 2026, the transitional government unveiled a
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Nature Has Its Say in Gaza |
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By :Dr Oroub El-Abed, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) |
| 16 September 2026 |
Nature has its say in Gaza
For nearly three years, Palestinians in Gaza have been taught, brutally, that almost everything necessary for ordinary human life can be destroyed or turned into an instrument of war. A home can disappear, a neighbourhood can be flattened, a road made impassable, a hospital rendered
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UN General Assembly Recommits to New Urban Agenda |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 17 July 2026 |
NEW YORK—The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a political declaration today, recommitting countries to the 2016 New Urban Agenda at is mid-term of its implementation (2016–36). The states also warned that rapid urbanization is outpacing progress, as some 3 billion people still lack safe, adequate and affordable housing, over 330
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Israeli Obliteration = Ecocide from Gaza to Lebanon and Beyond |
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By :Dr. Dan Steinbock, The Guardian |
| 02 May 2026 |
Obliteration Ecocide from Gaza to Lebanon and Beyond
Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ecocide in country since 2023. It is an extension of Israel’s destruction of Gaza – and its obliteration doctrine.
Israeli military aggression has “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese report (which
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Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction: WB, EU & UN Estimate Costs @ $71.4 Billion |
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By :Press and information team - Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA) |
| 21 April 2026 |
Final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment estimates $71.4 billion for recovery and reconstruction
In a detailed report rich in passive voice description of loss and damage incurred through Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a new World Bank-EU-UN recovery and reconstruction prospectus does not mention liability or reparations. Israel’s genocide, Hamas
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Humanitarian Shelter and Displacement Report |
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By :OCHA |
| 10 April 2026 |
Humanitarian Situation Report | 10 April 2026
Summary
In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces extended for two months a military order that further prolongs the displacement from three refugee camps of over 33,000 people since January 2025.
Another 5,700 Palestinians have been displaced because of settler attacks and access restrictions since January
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Lebanon: Rent Reform amid Collapse and War |
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By :Public Works Studio |
| 04 March 2026 |
Rent Reform amid Collapse and War
On Wednesday, 25 February 2026, MP Halima El Kaakour, along with several MPs, submitted two draft laws to the Speaker of Parliament. The first, an amendment to the old residential lease law, and the second, to regulate lease contracts, were submitted in an emergency step
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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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Document Title
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Publication Date |
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Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Egypt
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30 May 2025 |
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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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SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR
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07 April 2021 |
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تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 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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Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues
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22 March 2020 |
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Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT
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22 October 2018 |
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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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Habitat III Statement
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20 October 2016 |
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Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,
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12 August 2016 |
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Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016
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28 July 2016 |
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What Papua New Guinea Said
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26 July 2016 |
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Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
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HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft
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28 June 2016 |
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Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III
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28 June 2016 |
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HIC @ Habitat III
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23 June 2016 |
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Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III
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02 February 2016 |
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Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)
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31 January 2016 |
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The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response
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14 January 2016 |
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Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development
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22 December 2015 |
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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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Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region
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23 October 2015 |
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تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
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منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)
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21 September 2015 |
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Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector
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01 September 2015 |
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تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270
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04 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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الممارسات العمرانية الموازية في مصر 2015
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29 June 2015 |
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أساسيات الموئل الثالث
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16 April 2015 |
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Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
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The Right to the City: Cairo
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03 November 2014 |
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Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012
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04 July 2012 |
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Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo
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11 February 2012 |
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“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”
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01 October 2008 |
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Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households
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30 September 2006 |
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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1
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05 September 2000 |
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Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda
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30 June 1996 |
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Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14
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14 June 1996 |
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Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14
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14 June 1996 |
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إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية
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14 April 1996 |
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Constructing a New Social Alternative
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03 February 1996 |
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Agenda 21
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14 June 1992 |
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Declaración de Vancouver
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11 June 1976 |
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Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"
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01 March 1946 |
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Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"
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01 March 1946 |
