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Climate Crisis Is a Racial Justice Crisis

By :OHCHR

31 October 2022

There can be no meaningful solution to the global climate and ecological crisis without addressing systemic racism, and particularly the historic and contemporary racial legacies of colonialism and slavery, a UN human rights expert warned. “Climate justice seeks historical accountability from nations and entities responsible for climate change and calls for
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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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New report: GOLD VI by KNOW

By :UCLG-KNOW and contributors

14 October 2022

The sixth edition of the GOLD report, “Pathways to Urban and Territorial Equality: Addressing inequalities through local transformation strategies”, is being produced by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and part of the KNOW team and will be published in October 2022. GOLD VI will focus on how local and
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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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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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Palestine: Israeli Forces Raid Human Rights Offices

By :Bethan McKernan, The Guardian

18 August 2022

Israeli forces raid offices of six Palestinian human rights groups Property confiscated in move decried as ‘appalling attack’ on Palestinian civil society in occupied West Bank Israeli forces have raided the offices of six Palestinian human rights groups in the occupied West Bank that it previously accused of being terrorist organisations, a
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International Outrage over Israel NGO Attacks

By :Miriam Berger, The Washington Post

18 August 2022

Israel shutters Palestinian rights groups, drawing diplomatic backlash TEL AVIV—Israel closed the offices of five leading Palestinian rights organizations in an early-morning raid in Ramallah on Thursday, tightening its restrictions on civil society nearly a year after it labeled the organizations terrorist groups in an internationally criticized move. Israel says the organizations
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Thousands under Eviction in West Bank

By :Amnesty International

19 July 2022

Israel/OPT: Immediately halt forced eviction of more than 1,000 West Bank residents and stop demolitions of Bedouin homes in the Negev/Naqab The Israeli authorities must immediately halt the forcible eviction of more than 1,000 residents from Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today, following
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Uganda: 400 HHs Face Forced Eviction in Hoima

By :The Independent

10 July 2022

More than 400 residents in Hoima are on the verge of being forcefully evicted from their ancestral land. The affected residents are from the village of Ngobye in Buraru parish, Buraru sub county. They are feuding with Neko Isingoma, a prominent businessman in Hoima town over a piece of land measuring
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Kenya: Candidates Evade Hot Land Issues

By :Christine Mungai, The Africa Report

28 June 2022

Kenya: Why Raila & Ruto remain quiet on land justice issues For the first time in decades, Kenya’s leading presidential candidates are skirting around the explosive issue of land justice – instead of exploiting it as a way to mobilise voters to their campaigns. Both candidates – for different reasons –
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Documents (217)

Document Title	Publication Date
Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced PersonsMiddle East and North Africa	30 November 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
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
Climate Justice	25 November 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
Un derecho humano a la tierra	05 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
SR_Questionnaire-discrimination-housing_AR	07 April 2021
Crowborough letter	25 February 2021
Declarar una moratoria a desalojos en CDMX es una urgencia sanitaria	11 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
HIC Women in Africa PPT	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
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
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
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
Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid	01 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
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
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
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
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities	31 August 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
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 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
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency	02 July 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 2018
Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	26 January 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
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
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	25 October 2017
Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement	02 September 2017
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
Gains and Losses of Habitat III	09 July 2017
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 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
Right to the city: Concepts & local level application	14 June 2017
Right to the city: Concepts & local level application	14 June 2017
Local Government Role: legal mandate & practices	14 June 2017
Right to the City: Third workshop Report	14 June 2017
Adequate Residency challenges and local government practices	14 June 2017
Report of fourth “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
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
الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي	15 March 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
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
Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016	31 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)	23 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
نماذج عملية للحق في المدينة، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت	21 December 2016
The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)	20 December 2016
The Right to the City: History & Experiences (Arabic)	20 December 2016
The Role of Municipalities and Local Practices (Arabic)	20 December 2016
دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان	20 December 2016
Human Rights Framework and application of the chart in Lebanon (Arabic)	20 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), A/CONF.226/4	29 September 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016	10 September 2016
Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3	07 September 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
What Papua New Guinea Said	26 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Persons with Disabilities	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Older Persons	21 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Land	21 July 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
Growing Stress on Jordan by Council on Foreign Relations	17 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
HLRN-India Launches Habitat III Status Report	05 February 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
Comentarios de HIC a los Documentos Marco sobre Políticas de Hábitat III (resumen)	31 January 2016
The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions: A Housing and Land Rights Response	14 January 2016
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC	18 November 2015
Nothing about Us, without Us, Is for Us!	26 October 2015
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 2015
Transforming the historical link between agricultural policy and inequality in Lebanon	01 September 2015
Le_Messager_14_08_2015	14 August 2015
Papel de la administración local en la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos, A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270	04 August 2015
Rapport de la Rapporteuse spéciale sur le logement convenable en tant qu’élément du droit à un niveau	04 August 2015
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, A/70/270	04 August 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report	15 June 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
Principios Básicos de Habitat III	16 April 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
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
Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
Stakeholder Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Kingdom of Spain	15 June 2014
Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises	12 August 2013
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District	24 January 2012
The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar	30 June 2011
Gwangju Declaration on Human Right City	17 May 2011
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
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
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
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”	01 October 2008
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 2008
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
Principios Básicos y Directrices sobre los Desalojos y el Desplazamiento Generados por el Desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
Principes de base et directives sur les expulsions forcées et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18	26 August 2007
إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني	27 February 2007
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18	05 February 2007
Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	21 November 2006
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life	16 May 2006
"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration	09 March 2006
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
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
El Estatuto da la Ciudad (Lei nº 10.257/01) las directrices generales de la política urb	10 July 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	11 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	09 June 2001
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
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
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
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية	14 April 1996
Constructing a New Social Alternative	03 February 1996
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
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
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
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين	06 July 1993
Agenda 21	14 June 1992
لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"	13 December 1991
Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4	13 December 1991
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	06 June 1986
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 situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
“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
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted 16 December 1966.	16 December 1966
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
Déclaration universelle des droits de l`homme	10 December 1948
Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos	10 December 1948
UN Charter of the United Nations, adopted 26 June 1945	26 June 1945
ميثاق الأمم المتحدة	26 June 1945

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