News (10)
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Reflecting on World Urban Forum 12 |
By :HIC-GS |
21 November 2024 |
This report by the HIC General Secretariat reflects on the events, activities, collaborations and commemorations of Coalition Members and friends at the 12th World Urban Forum, Cairo, 4-8 November 2024.
HIC Events
Social and feminist movement convergence around social production of habitat, with contributions by Massa Kone, HIC Board Representative for Social Movements, More...
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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia |
By :HIC-HLRN |
23 August 2024 |
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Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 29 Now Online |
By :HIC-HLRN |
21 September 2023 |
The current Issue 29 of Land Times /أحوال الأرض seeks to fill some of the gaps in current discourse on the most pressing issues facing the human habitat. It looks beyond contradictions between words and actions to identify the applicable norms that are often forgotten and the need for data, More...
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UN Experts: International Community Must Act to End Israel’s Annexation of Palestine |
By :OHCHR |
26 July 2023 |
International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts
Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank would break international law – UN experts call on the international community to ensure accountability
GENEVA—The international community must take steps to More...
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HIC-HLRN with GLTN on Loss & Damage |
By :HIC-HLRN |
05 May 2023 |
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is a dynamic and multisectoral alliance of international partners committed to improving equitable and sustainable access to, use of and governance of land and increasing tenure security for all. GLTN especially focuses on improving the situation of the poor, women and youth. HIC-HLRN is More...
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Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism |
By :Al Haq |
29 November 2022 |
Landmark Palestinian Coalition Report: Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November 2022, Al-Haq launched its inaugural coalition report titled: Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism. It reflects the collaborative efforts of civil society and academic authors Rania Muhareb, More...
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CoP27, Day 1: Loss & Damage on the Agenda |
By :Enterprise |
07 November 2022 |
CoP27, Day 1: Loss and damage funding introduced as an agenda item
Yeb Saño, Greenpeace’s CoP27 head of delegation, says: “It is a significant moment that loss and damage finance has been agreed as an agenda item for the first time since the most vulnerable countries raised the clarion call decades More...
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Taking Climate Change to the Top Court |
By :Solomon Yeo and Vishal Prasad, Project Syndicate |
12 September 2022 |
An International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate and human rights would influence countries’ climate goals and policies, help strengthen multilateralism, and catalyze more ambitious action. At the United Nations General Assembly later this year, governments will have a chance to start the process.
HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS – Three years More...
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
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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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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