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CSOs Defying Israeli Military Orders

By :Shawah Jabarin, The Nation

21 November 2022

Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders My organization, Al-Haq, was among 7 raided by Israel and ordered closed in August, but we do not believe in following illegal orders—and so we will remain open. Early in the morning of 18 August 2022, the Israeli army raided seven prominent
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UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine/Israel Report

By :OHCHR

20 October 2022

United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel calls on UN General Assembly to request that the International Court of Justice urgently advise on the legal consequences of such actions New York—There are reasonable grounds to conclude that the Israeli occupation of
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Crooked in Kushnerville

By :Alec MacGillis, reporter for ProPublica.

27 September 2022

Jared Kushner’s Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving & Cheating Tenants in Baltimore’s “Kushnerville” Guest: Alec MacGillis, reporter for ProPublica. A property management company partly owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to pay a $3.25 million fine to the state of Maryland and to reimburse potentially tens of thousands
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African Court Rules for Saharawis

26 September 2022

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights concludes Morocco`s occupation of Western Sahara to be a serious violation of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. On 22 September 2022, the African Court on Human and Peoples` Rights delivered a judgment concluding that Morocco`s occupation of Western Sahara is
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Housing and Land Rights in South Africa’s UPR

By :HIC side event

23 September 2022

Housing and Land Rights ahead of South Africa’s UPR The upcoming Universal Periodic Review of South Africa and the current Human Rights Council 51st session should focus on the human rights to adequate housing and land rights and protection of their defenders Date: 30 September 2022 Time: 10:00 - 11:00 In person: Room XXV,
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Human Rights Report on Xinjiang/East Turkestan

By :OHCHR

31 August 2022

UN Human Rights Office issues assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China GENEVA—The UN Human Rights Office today issued an assessment of human rights concerns in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The assessment was initiated following serious allegations of human rights violations against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities brought to
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Pakistan: Mixed Mitigation Governance Record

27 August 2022

Not all local governments have prepared for, or responded to monsoon flooding equally. After the devastating 2010 floods, authorities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have taken some measures to alleviate the affects of current floods, but not all local spheres of government have performed as well. Corruption, poor planning and disregard for building
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ZA: Killing Land Defenders & Constitutional Order

By :Raymond Suttner, Polity

25 August 2022

Mnguni is part of a broader attack on our constitutional order The murder of Lindokuhle Mnguni, the 24th leader of Abahlali baseMjondolo to be gunned down, has met with indifference on the part of the state and the ANC. Not a word, as before. Violence - primarily against the poor -
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Global CSOs Demand Response to Israeli Raids

By :Various organizations

24 August 2022

Over 200 Organizations Demand International Community Stand Against Raids and Closures of 7 Palestinian Organizations Amid Israel’s escalating attacks targeting their work, a group of more than 200 Palestinian, regional, and international organizations express our full solidarity with the designated seven leading Palestinian civil society organizations, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human
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South Africa: Lindokuhle Mnguni Assassinated

By :Abahlali baseMjondolo

20 August 2022

Press statement In the early hours of this morning Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana Commune and the Youth League, was assassinated at the Commune. Mnguni was a powerful intellectual with a mind like a razor. He was a young man with real vision and commitment, a brave man whose will
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Documents (150)

Document Title	Publication Date
Gold Extractivism- Sudan	16 June 2022
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان	23 April 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 CEDaW	20 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
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
Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021	30 August 2021
Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid	31 May 2021
Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine	30 April 2021
Crowborough letter	25 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
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
Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report	08 December 2020
Violaciones en el Perú sobre los derechos a la vivienda y a la tierra durante la pandemia	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
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 October 2020
Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020	25 September 2020
Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid	16 September 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
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Housing Rights	20 July 2020
Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya	16 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
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
What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara	19 September 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie	13 July 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
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga	06 June 2018
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine	23 August 2017
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
SUR The Walled City of Diyarbakir: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment	27 June 2017
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3	28 April 2017
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Saudi Arabia, A/HRC/35/26/Add.3	28 April 2017
تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة	28 February 2017
NAHT recommendations for the FY 2018 CPC Peoples Budget	20 February 2017
Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs	20 January 2017
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
Housing for All? Evictions in India, 2015–16	22 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
Davinder Lamba Lifetime Achievement Award	10 December 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool	27 August 2016
Statement of the Brazilian Civil Society on the New Urban Agenda	31 May 2016
HLRN-India Launches Habitat III Status Report	05 February 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
The National Report for the Third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (HABITAT III) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (working document)	01 January 2016
Sudan’s Report for United Nations’ Third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, (Habitat III), 2016	01 January 2016
Rapport National de contribution du Cameroun à Habitat III	30 November 2015
Application des décisions prises par la Conférence des Nations Unies sur les établissements humains (Habitat II) et renforcement du Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains (ONU-Hab	17 November 2015
Stakeholder Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Republic of Sudan	21 September 2015
The private modes of water capture in Lebanon	01 September 2015
Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector	01 September 2015
Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon	01 September 2015
HIC-HLRN and A.S.I.A. Report on Italy	27 August 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
National Habitat III Report of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria	08 June 2015
Rapport Pays pour Habitat III de la République de Madagascar	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of Belgium	08 June 2015
National Habitat III Report of the United States of America	08 June 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law	15 May 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Turkey, A/HRC/29/15	13 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
The Third National Report on the Habitat in Cooperation with UN Program for Human Settlement (Jordan)	01 September 2014
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن	05 August 2014
Stakeholder Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Kingdom of Spain	15 June 2014
حول خطة لمقاربة الموازنة العامة للدولة	06 September 2013
ACIJ دراسات الحالة	06 September 2013
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 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
Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya	01 December 2012
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
Report of SR related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation Mission to Egypt July 2010	05 July 2010
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City	01 July 2010
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث	22 May 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
Addressing Marginality: Some Theoretical and Practical Contributions from Social Science and Law	27 September 2009
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
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 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
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
Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households	30 September 2006
Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households	30 September 2006
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games	31 December 2005
Informe sobre el Pacto Internacional de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales –PIDESC	14 November 2004
Informe sobre el Pacto Internacional de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales – PIDESC	14 November 2003
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Dominican Republic (Executive Summary)	14 November 2003
“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”	05 May 2003
Rebuilding from the Ruins, Listening to the Voices from Gujarat and Restoring People`s Rights to Housing, Livelihood and Life, A Report on Ethnic Conflict in Gujarat, India	30 January 2003
Rebuilding from the Ruins, Listening to the Voices from Gujarat and Restoring People`s Rights to Housing, Livelihood and Life, A Report on Ethnic Conflict in Gujarat, India	30 January 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
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
A Função Social da Propriedade	01 November 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
El Estatuto da la Ciudad (Lei nº 10.257/01) las directrices generales de la política urb	10 July 2001
Statut de la ville (Loi n° 10257) les directives générales de la politique urbaine	10 July 2001
Statut de la ville (Loi n° 10257) les directives générales de la politique urbaine	10 July 2001
El Estatuto da la Ciudad (Lei nº 10.257/01) las directrices generales de la política urb	10 July 2001
A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade	01 March 2000
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 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
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
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
“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1	31 December 1967
Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)	01 June 1967
الملكية وظيفة غجتماعية" (خطاب حبيب بورقيبة)"	17 January 1967
The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law	01 January 1964
Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association	23 December 1956
Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"	01 March 1946
Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"	01 March 1946

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