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In Palestine to Lebanon, and Now Syria, Israel Is Destroying The Arab Olive Harvest
11 November 2026
From Palestine to Lebanon, and now Syria, Israel is destroying the Arab olive harvest The Israeli army is cutting farmers off from their groves in Quneitra, southern Syria, and detaining young men in the area arbitrarily. Locals tell Mondoweiss that the losses from the olive harvest will take decades to recover
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Firms Tied to West Bank settlements Win $15m UK Contracts Despite Criminality & Sanctions
By :Caolán Magee, Aljazeera
10 November 2026
Firms tied to West Bank settlements win $15m UK deals despite sanctions Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the findings ‘outrageous and frankly insulting to the public’.     Share Firms tied to West Bank settlements win $15m UK deals despite sanctions on social media   The United Kingdom awarded 10.7 million pounds ($14.4m) in new
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Gaza’s Displacement Camps Face Deadly Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides
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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Yemen Fighting Newly Displaces 2,300 Households
By :IOM
03 November 2026
YEMEN IDP REPORTIOM Yemen| Displacement Tracking Matrix25 TO 31 October 2026   ...From 1 January to 31 October 2026, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 53,226 households (HH) (319,356 Individuals) who experienced displacement at least once. Between 25 and 31 October 2026, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 2294 households (13764 individuals) displaced at least once. The
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Israel “Withdraws” in al-Khalil/Hebron
By :Anadolu
02 November 2026
Hebron governor says Israeli forces withdraw from city after 10-day siege Hebron Mayor Youssef al-Jaabari says families forced from their homes can return and students can go to school.   Palestinians return to Hebron after their forced displacement due to an Israeli military operation | The governor of Hebron says Israeli forces have withdrawn from
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Adalah Petitions Israeli Court for Hebron Municipality and Displaced Residents
By :Adalah: THe Center for Arab Minority RIghts in ISrael
01 November 2026
  Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court on Behalf of Hebron Municipality and Displaced Residents: Halt Forced Displacement, Demolitions and Movement Restrictions in the City      On Thursday, 29 October 2026, Adalah petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of the Hebron Municipality and seven residents of the city’s Ein Deir Baha and al-Jaldeh
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Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine
By :HIC-HLRN, LRC & PENGON
01 November 2026
“Israel’s Ecocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with a Focus on the Jewish National Fund” A joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the oPt by the Housing and Land Rights Network–Habitat International Coalition, the Land Research Center, and the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network.     The report presents input to the UN
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Palestine: Israel Evicts 1,200 Palestinians in Hebron
By :Reuters
25 October 2026
Around 1,200 Palestinians Are Displaced in Hebron as Israel Begins Military Operation     JERUSALEM—The ⁠Israeli ⁠military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to ⁠leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said ​on Saturday, a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
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Gaza: ‘Green Rafah’ - Haven or Conquest?
By :Occupation Watch
25 October 2026
‘Green Rafah’: Humanitarian Haven or Another U.S.–Israeli Scheme to Isolate Palestinians?   “The idea of social sorting or demographic engineering is bound to fail before it even gets off the ground.”   In late November 2025, Rafah in southern Gaza returned to the center of public debate, not only as a devastated city on
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Egyptian Firms Survey Rafah Ruins for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan
By :Occupation Watch
22 October 2026
Egyptian Firms Surveyed Rafah Ruins Under Israeli Military Escort for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan, Sources Say Two Egyptian sources describe engineers mapping a reconstruction zone in Israeli-controlled Rafah meant to eventually house 20,000 Palestinians under Shin Bet vetting and Egyptian contracting control.     Egyptian engineers walked the rubble of eastern Rafah this year
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Documents (170)

Document Title

Publication Date

Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine

01 November 2026

تعاون أصحاب المصلحة مع المنتدى الساسي رفيع مستوى

23 April 2026

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

Reparations Bibliography

28 March 2026

Joint Inputs toward a draft General Comment on ICESCR Application in Situations of Armed Conflict

16 March 2026

وشهد شاهد من أهله

01 January 2026

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

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

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Latin America and Spain

30 May 2025

تقرير مركز أبحاث الأراضي، بمناسبة ذكرى النكبة السابع والسبعين- 2025

18 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

Reparations Bibliography

06 May 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

Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)

20 February 2025

Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024

27 October 2024

بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون

07 October 2024

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Lafarge Supporting Terrorism, Crimes against Humanity: Case Outline on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of States

22 June 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on impacts of climate change

09 December 2022

ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS

23 October 2022

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

18 September 2022

Joint statement to HRC on CoI Palestine report

13 June 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on women`s political leadership

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on affordable housing

20 May 2022

Africities9 CSO statement on social justice

20 May 2022

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

16 March 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

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 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

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 December 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 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

لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير

13 July 2020

Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond

13 July 2020

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

29 April 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

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

06 September 2019

Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report

05 September 2019

WLH Kampala Workshop Report

14 May 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18

30 April 2019

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

17 January 2019

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

17 January 2019

Nuremberg judgments

10 December 2018

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen

22 November 2018

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2018

SDG Land Indicators

01 September 2018

SDG Messages from Arab CSOs

24 April 2018

Dubai Declaration on Land Governance in the Arab States

26 February 2018

إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية

26 February 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 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

Treaty Bodies and Related Institutions: The Centrality of Human Rights Treaty Bodies to the UN Sustainable Development System

21 August 2017

SDG 6

18 July 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต

19 June 2017

دور البلديات: الصلاحيات القانونية والممارسات

15 June 2017

تحديات الإقامة الكريمة في ظل ممارسات البلديات

15 June 2017

تقرير ورشة العمل الثالثة حول ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت

15 June 2017

الإطار الحقوقي لمبادرة الحق في المدينة

14 June 2017

الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي

14 June 2017

الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى

14 June 2017

Right to the city: practical application in other cities

14 June 2017

Local Government Role: legal mandate & practices

14 June 2017

Review & discussion on the initial draft of Beirut City Charter

14 June 2017

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

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

الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي

15 March 2017

المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة

23 January 2017

حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة

31 December 2016

HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334

28 December 2016

بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334

28 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)

23 December 2016

Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar

23 December 2016

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

The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)

20 December 2016

الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى

20 December 2016

دور البلديات والممارسات المحلية في تطبيق ميثاق الحق في المدينة

20 December 2016

دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان

20 December 2016

مبادئ حقوق الإنسان وتطبيق الحق في المدينة في لبنان

20 December 2016

مقدمة عن مشروع لبنان وورش العمل

17 August 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

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

01 July 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

Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)

24 May 2016

تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016

09 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

Growing Stress on Jordan by Council on Foreign Relations

17 March 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development

22 December 2015

Annotated Outline of the Habitat III Regional Report for the Arab Region

23 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle

19 December 2014

Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)

19 December 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”

01 September 2014

إعلان مسقط الوزاري حول المعاهدة الدولية بشأن الموارد الوراثية النباتية للأغذية والزراعة

21 September 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

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)

21 May 2012

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

منتدى الأرض، الدورة الثالثة "الأرض وسيادة الشعوب وتقرير المصير"

17 January 2012

Report of Cairo 2050 Plan Workshop

30 September 2011

The Goldberg Opportunity: A Chance for Human Rights-based Statecraft in Israel, Fact-finding Report No. 13

31 December 2010

الاتفاقية العربية لمكافحة الفساد، جامعة الدول العربية، 2010

12 December 2010

The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara

15 June 2010

Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory

01 April 2010

NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference

05 February 2010

إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا

03 July 2009

Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa

03 July 2009

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

15 June 2008

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

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

15 June 2006

Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)

11 March 2005

Informe del Relator Especial sobre una vivienda adecuada como elemento integrante del derecho a un n

03 March 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

House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem

14 February 2002

تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة

14 February 2002

Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States

01 January 2002

الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة

24 October 2001

Synthesis of National Reports on the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda in the West Asia Region

01 September 2000

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

The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa

10 September 1994

وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا

10 September 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

European Charter for Women in the City

01 March 1994

State Terrorism at Sea: A Preliminary Report on the Case of Israel

01 December 1990

The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123

14 December 1984

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

16 December 1982

The Two Galilees

01 September 1982

S/RES/501 (1982)

25 February 1982

S/RES/465 (1980)

01 March 1980

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States

26 December 1933

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