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News (10)
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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Israel Demolishes Bedouin Palestinian Homes, 250 Homeless
By :Nadav Rapaport, Middle East Eye
13 October 2026
 Israel demolishes Bedouin Palestinian homes leaving 250 homeless Palestinian leaders have condemned the demolitions, accusing far-right ministers of using the displacement of Bedouin families to mobilise voters     Israeli forces demolished between 50 and 80 homes and a mosque belonging to a Bedouin Palestinian clan on Monday, leaving about 250 people homeless.   The Israeli
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The Tip of an Iceberg: Civil Society Interventions at HLPF
By :Bihter Moschini and Joseph Schechla
22 August 2026
The Tip of an Iceberg What underlies civil society’s 2-minute statements on Agenda 2030 reporting     In this contribution, Bihter Moschini and Joseph Schechla look beyond the highly visible two-minute statements delivered by civil society at the HLPF to examine the much larger body of work, coordination and advocacy that lies beneath them.
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UNCCD CoP 17: Territories in Motion
By :ICCA Consortium
18 August 2026
Pastoralist voices, living territories and collective action for resilient rangelandsat UNCCD CoP17.   At UNCCD COP17, the ICCA Consortium is joining pastoralist communities, Members, partners and allies to highlight the vital role of pastoral territories of life. Through publications, community stories, policy messages and events, we are showing how mobility, customary governance,
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Israel`s Violent Jewish Extremists in West Bank
By :Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post
12 August 2026
Israel`s failure to restrain violent Jewish extremists in West Bank reaches new low - analysis How much longer before the IDF entirely loses the power to enforce order on violent Jewish extremists?     The Israeli defense establishment hit a new low on Tuesday and Wednesday regarding its inability to restrain violent Jewish extremists
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The Elders: Palestine must not disappear
By :The Elders: Hina Jilani, Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark
17 July 2026
Palestine must not disappear A statement by The Elders: Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark and Hina Jilani following their visit to the Middle East, 11–16 July 2026.         We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. From all that we have witnessed and heard, our inescapable conclusion is that the government of
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New Case Study: "Land Administration for Peacebuilding in Darfur"
By :GLTN/HIC-HLRN
16 June 2026
Newly published UN-Habitat/GLTN case study “Advancing Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration for Peacebuilding and the Sustainable Return of IDPs in Darfur”!   Land and natural resources remain at the heart of inter-communal conflict in Darfur and constitute the key enabler to durable solutions for internally displaced persons and returnees. This brief presents practical experiences
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Hannah Arendt`s Warning: Israel Normalises Sadism for Settler Colonialism
By :Avigail Abarbanel, Substack
14 June 2026
Hannah Arendt Warned Us — How Israel Normalises Sadism in the Service of Its Settler Colonial Machine     A state or a group fighting a genuine war of survival — however brutal — has the logic of survival on its side. The brutality of resistance is directly proportionate to the brutality and
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Iraq`s Historic Marshes Revive after Years of Drought
By :Mohammed Aty, Reuters
07 May 2026
Iraq`s historic marshes revive as water returns after years of drought     CHIBAYISH MARSHES, Iraq - After years of drought that left large swathes of Iraq`s historic marshes cracked and ​empty, rising water levels are beginning to revive the wetlands, drawing buffalo herders and fishermen back to ‌areas once abandoned.   In Chibayish marshes
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Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction: WB, EU & UN Estimate Costs @ $71.4 Billion
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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Documents (156)

Document Title

Publication Date

Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine

01 November 2026

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 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

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

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

20 February 2025

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

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

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

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

How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB

07 September 2022

Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV

07 September 2022

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 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

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

20 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

The GLTN Approach to Land

24 February 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

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

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

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

09 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

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

04 October 2020

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

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

29 April 2020

Interpreting the Human Right to Land within ICESCR

03 April 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

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

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 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

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

Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia

30 September 2018

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

02 July 2018

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 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

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

09 July 2017

Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment

27 June 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 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

Habitat III Statement

20 October 2016

Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016

10 September 2016

HIC comments on Habitat III draft of 27 July 2016

27 July 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Land

21 July 2016

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

01 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

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 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

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

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

"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

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

Reporte National de México para Hábitat III

20 October 2015

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon

01 September 2015

“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49

07 August 2015

Rôle des administrations locales dans la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme, A/HRC/30/49

07 August 2015

دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49

07 August 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report

15 June 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

27 February 2015

HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire

15 November 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

The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (1)

18 July 2010

"تقرير الخبيرة المستقلة المعنية بمسألة التزامات حقوق الإنسان المتعلقة بالحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى مصر"

10 July 2010

Report of SR related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation Mission to Egypt July 2010

05 July 2010

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2

24 March 2009

دراسة برلمانية تحليلية حول موضوع: التنمية الإسكانية المستدامة

14 October 2008

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

15 June 2008

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

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

26 August 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

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

رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

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

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 1999

“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

Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, done in London, on 17 June 1999.

17 June 1999

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

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

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

14 October 1994

"إعلان ريو بشأن البيئة والتنمية"، "جدول أعمال القرن 21،" تقرير الأمم المتحدة المعني بالبيئة والتنمية، A / CONF.151 / 26 (المجلد الأول)

12 August 1992

Agenda 21

14 June 1992

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

14 December 1984

The Two Galilees

01 September 1982

Flood Control & Marine Pollution of Continental Origin, Institute of International Law, 55th Conference

17 August 1972

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