| Welcome to the Solidarity Network |
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| Arising through the Habitat International Coalition and Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) coordination efforts, the idea of a Solidarity Network among community organizations of the Kurdish, Palestinian and Tibetan peoples was realized at the 1996 Habitat II conference in Istanbul. At Habitat II + 5, in June 2001, the three peoples’ member organizations reaffirmed their common cause and will to work together. |
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| The Solidarity Network members meeting in September 2001, in Dharamsala, India, set out a common purpose to seek that “the State occupying them correct its behavior to be consistent with human rights standards.” They determined their goal as “implementing human rights law and monitoring their implementation”; and their objectives as: “to minimize the suffering under occupation” and “to urge States (both occupiers and others) to implement these peoples’ full human rights.” |
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| The SolidNet partners set out to work in three strategic stages: (1) sharing information on the respective cases; (2) developing and publishing a comparative analysis of Peoples under Occupation/Alien Domination, from a common human rights perspective; and (3) engaging in joint, complementary action together, as well as with other peoples enduring similar forms of deprivation. |
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History, facts & figures |
Population transfer |
Land confiscation |
Destruction of property and habitat, and other State tools |
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| Kurds |
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| Palestinians |
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| Tibetans |
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| Western Sahara |
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Analogous cases
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