Civil Society Messages to the 9th Africities Summit |
By: HIC-HLRN |
20 May 2022 |
A self-organized civil-society initiative hosted 45 civil organization representatives this week at Kisumu, Kenya on 15–16 May to deliberate and consolidate messages to the Africities9 Summit. The Civil Society Forum took place in advance of the Africities 9 Summit (17–20 May 2020), also at Kisumu. The Summit is organized every More...
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Durban: 2nd eKhenana leader martyred since March |
By: Abahlali baseMjondolo |
08 May 2022 |
Nokuthula Mabaso was assassinated in eKhenana last night
A second Abahlali baseMjondolo martyr has fallen within as many months. Nokuthula Mabaso, a powerful leader in the eKhenana Commune and the Women’s League, was assassinated in eKhenana last night.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
The eKhenana Commune has been under ruthless attack for years. There More...
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Ukraine: New Master Plan for Kharkiv |
By: UNECE |
06 May 2022 |
The war has already caused the destruction of infrastructure in many urban areas of Ukraine and will require enormous efforts by the government and international partners to reconstruct following the cessation of hostilities.
In April 2022, the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development developed draft recommendations for plans for rebuilding cities More...
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HIC Urges Faithful NUA Implementation |
By: HLRN |
28 April 2022 |
Getting Back to the Agenda
HIC Statement on the Occasion of the NUA+5 Implementation Review
With today’s belated five-year review of implementing the UN New Urban Agenda(NUA), the third global Habitat Agenda since 1976, HIC shares this anniversary by celebrating its own 45 years of accompanying and contributing to the successive global More...
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
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24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions, More...
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GOLD VI Working Papers! |
By: HIC-HLRN |
20 April 2022 |
How can Commoning, Housing systems, Urban health, Sanctuary cities and Democracy contribute to urban and territorial equality?
With the aim to define an urban and territorial equality agenda, UCLG and the KNOW program (led by University College London) have brought together hundreds of contributors from local & regional governments, civil society More...
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World Bank Spring Mtgs: Billions for Fossil Fuels |
By: Urgewald |
18 April 2022 |
The World Bank Drives Billions into Fossil Fuel Investments
The 2022 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) will take place from Monday, April 18, through Sunday, April 24. Most of the events, including the public events, invitation-only events, civil society organization engagements, and More...
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India: Hindus Riot, Muslim Homes, Shops Burnt |
By: Quratulain Rehbar, Nikkei News |
16 April 2022 |
India violence leaves trail of burned Muslim homes, shops
Islamic scholar complains of properties being `selectively razed`
NEW DELHI—A wave of religious communal violence across India coinciding with a Hindu festival has left at least one person dead, dozens injured, numerous Muslim-owned properties destroyed -- and residents bracing for the possibility of More...
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Why An Indian State Is Razing Muslim Homes |
By: Zoya Mateen, BBC News |
15 April 2022 |
Madhya Pradesh: Why an Indian state is demolishing Muslim homes
The people who would destroy his home came early in the morning, remembers 72-year-old Shaikh Mohammad Rafiq.
A soft-drink seller in India`s Madhya Pradesh state, Mr Rafiq and his sons had had a long night. "It`s Ramadan, so our business usually picks More...
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Myanmar: Troops Burn Heartland Villages |
By: Wa Lone and Poppy Mcpherson, Reuters |
14 April 2022 |
Troops burn villages in Myanmar heartland, seek to crush resistance
Rubble and ashes, overlooked by a single golden pagoda, are almost all that remain of the wood and brick houses most people had built for themselves in the quiet riverside village of Bin in the Buddhist heartland of central Myanmar.
Bin is More...
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UNESCO Resolutions to Protect Jerusalem |
By: QNN |
07 April 2022 |
UNESCO unanimously adopts two resolutions on state of Palestine
OCCUPIED PALESTINE—The Executive Council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has unanimously adopted two resolutions on the State of Palestine.
At its 214th session held in Paris on Wednesday, the UNESCO [Executive Board] adopted a resolution on old Jerusalem More...
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IPCC: ‘Now or Never’ to Avoid Climate Disaster |
By: Aljazeera |
04 April 2022 |
Climate scientists from 195 countries have warned that actions to avoid climate catastrophe have been too little and too late. This failure is the subject of two reports from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past eight month. A new, third report presents what we can More...
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Palestine: Day of the Land and Its People |
By: HIC-HLRN |
30 March 2022 |
Statement of Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition commemorating Palestine’s national Land Day, 2022GENEVA and CAIRO, 30 March 2022—On this occasion of Palestine’s 46th Land Day and fourth anniversary of the Great March of Return in Gaza, we are reminded of the underlying root causes of crimes More...
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How Ukraine War Impacts Global Food |
By: Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data |
24 March 2022 |
How could the war in Ukraine impact global food supplies?
Both Ukraine and Russia are some of the world’s largest food exporters. How could global food be impacted?
Ukraine has been one of the world’s largest contributors to the World Food Programme – the UN agency that provides food aid to countries More...
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
By: Joseph Schechla |
24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit More...
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East Africa: 28m Will Starve If Rains Fail Again |
By: Oxfam |
22 March 2022 |
As many as 28 million people across East Africa at risk of extreme hunger if rains fail again
Global food and commodity prices spiking in reaction to Ukraine crisis set to worsen hunger for 21 million people already today in severe food insecurity
As many as 28 million people across East More...
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HIC-HLRN @ UN HRC on Housing Segregation |
By: HIC-HLRN |
19 March 2022 |
HIC-HLRN Addresses UN SR Report on Housing Segregation
On 16 March 2022, Habitat International Coalition addressed the UN Human Rights Council’s 49th Regular Session in the interactive dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing on the subject of his current report on segregation and discrimination in housing. The following More...
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HIC-HLRN Statement on Ukraine War |
By: HIC-HLRN |
19 March 2022 |
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and its Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) condemn forced evictions as a gross violation of the human right to adequate housing in every context. In the case of Russian Federation forces’ invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine, millions of civilians stand as a frontline More...
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Urgent Action South Africa: Ayanda Ngila Murdered |
By: HIC-HLRN |
16 March 2022 |
HIC-HLRN call for urgent action on the murder of land defender Ayanda Ngila
Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN), with its member organizations across the African continent, the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, stands in solidarity with those grieving the murder of South African land rights defender More...
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Event: Apartheid against the Palestinian People |
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16 March 2022 |
As co-sponsor of this important event, HIC-HLRN cordially invite you to join a high-level side event organized by human rights organizations* and the permanent missions of Malaysia, Namibia, Pakistan, Palestine and South Africa, in parallel to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council entitled Examining the applicability and implications More...
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