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International Day of Action for People`s Food Sovereignty

By :IPC-NENA

20 October 2024

On the occasion of the International Day of Action for People`s Food Sovereignty and against transnational corporations comes on 16 October, while global social and political movements continue their tireless efforts to achieve popular sovereignty over their natural resources and food, the MENA region is plunged into a comprehensive war
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The Land and Its People: Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa

By :HIC-HLRN

20 August 2024

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Abidjan: Thousands of Families still awaiting Support after Forced Evictions

By :Hervey Delmas Kokou , Amnesty Int

14 August 2024

Tens of thousands of people evicted since January 2024 from the Gesco, Boribana, Banco 1 and Abattoir neighbourhoods Evictions without adequate and reasonable prior notice, some involving violence; children deprived of education; 133 farmers lost their livelihoods Support measures announced in March 2024 must be urgently implemented for all affected people. The Ivorian
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Apartheid Israel`s Genocide against Palestine, People and Land (update)

03 July 2024

See the attached graphic to visualize the update of ongoing Israeli crimes in Gaza. The graphic, prepared by the South African Palestine Solidarity Campaign and South African BDS Coalition. Data are compiled from the Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza) and latest Aljazeera, European Human Rights Monitor, and Slingshot Media reports. Download
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Security of Tenure: Evolving Norms through the UN Human Rights and Development Systems

By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN

13 March 2024

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New Report: Land Governance and Land Rights in Palestine

By :GLTN-Arab Land Initiative

21 February 2024

The Arab Land Initiative is pleased to release its “Land Governance and Land Rights in Palestine: Analysis and Recommendations” report, a contribution towards the understanding of land policies, laws, regulations, and practices that shape the relationship between people and land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Land management and administration in Palestine
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Israeli Forces Occupy Gaza Homes and Burn Them Down

By :Brett Wilkins, Commondreams

01 February 2024

IDF Forces Occupy Gaza Homes and Then Burn Them Down “Setting fire to homes belonging to noncombatant civilians … is forbidden under international law,” Haaretz points out. Israeli troops invading the Gaza Strip are occupying and then burning Palestinian homes there, apparent war crimes that follow literally incendiary calls by some Israeli
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CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary

By :Philip Seufert

06 September 2023

Civil Society Perspectives on the Use and Application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests In the context of the activities that the WG had planned last year on the 10th anniversary of the Tenure Guidelines, FAO commissioned FIAN to prepare a background
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UN Experts Condemn Israel’s Forced of E. Jerusalem Families

By :OHCHR

12 July 2023

Israel: UN experts condemn forced eviction of East Jerusalem families GENEVA--The forced eviction and displacement of the Ghaith-Sub Laban family and many other Palestinian families in east Jerusalem may amount to a war crime of forcible transfer and must be immediately reversed, UN experts* said today. “It is deeply shocking and heartbreaking
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How the Bezos Earth Fund Spends Its Billions

By :Bloomberg

03 May 2023

How the Bezos Earth Fund Spends Its Billions Amazon made Jeff Bezos very rich. In 2020, he decided to pledge a portion of that wealth — $10 billion — to launch the Bezos Earth Fund. It is the largest commitment to climate philanthropy ever made and, by most measures, a vast
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Documents (192)

Document Title	Publication Date
بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون	07 October 2024
CSO reflections on the VGGT`s 10th anniversary	06 September 2023
Réflexions des OSC sur le 10e anniversaire des VGGT	06 September 2023
Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts	06 September 2023
Reflexiones de las OSC sobre el décimo aniversario de los VGGT	06 September 2023
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)	18 September 2022
مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (معايير حقوق الإنسان الدولية)	18 September 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on forced eviction	20 May 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on social justice	20 May 2022
When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	06 May 2022
Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara	16 March 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
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
Ndola Rural Research Study, 2021	30 August 2021
Un derecho humano a la tierra	05 August 2021
حق الإنسان في الأرض	18 June 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
The GLTN Approach to Land	24 February 2021
A Human Right to Land	24 February 2021
الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان	24 February 2021
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 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
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
New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"	05 October 2020
جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19	05 October 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
Patterns of Crime against Land & Housing amid COVID	12 August 2020
Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses	30 July 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
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
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
Land Inequality Framing Document	30 October 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 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
Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas	20 November 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
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 2018
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	30 October 2017
Land Forum VI program	25 October 2017
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 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
General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities	23 June 2017
Tunisia: Jemna Oasis Land Struggle	13 April 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
The Right to the City: Concepts & Principles of Human rights (Arabic)	20 December 2016
الحق في المدينة: التاريخ والتجارب من مدن أخرى	20 December 2016
دور البلديات والممارسات المحلية في تطبيق ميثاق الحق في المدينة	20 December 2016
دور المجتمع المدني وتطبيق الميثاق في لبنان	20 December 2016
مبادئ حقوق الإنسان وتطبيق الحق في المدينة في لبنان	20 December 2016
Habitat III Statement	20 October 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016	28 July 2016
A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports	24 July 2016
Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat	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
HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft	28 June 2016
Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III	28 June 2016
HIC @ Habitat III	23 June 2016
CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets	09 June 2016
Declaration of Civil Society Organizations at the 33rd FAO Regional Conference (NENA)	24 May 2016
Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement	29 April 2016
تعاون منظمات المجتمع المدني في مجال الغذاء والتغذية والزراعة، لإقليمالشرق الأدنى / شمال أفريقيا 2018-2016	09 April 2016
Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau	19 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
Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III	02 February 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	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
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016	16 November 2015
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016	16 November 2015
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016	16 November 2015
Reporte National de México para Hábitat III	20 October 2015
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	15 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 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
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
Guide on the Right to the City	21 July 2015
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report	15 June 2015
المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي	24 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
Vienna, “Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle (English version)	19 December 2014
Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village	12 December 2014
HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire	15 November 2014
The Right to the City: Cairo	03 November 2014
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
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
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/HRC/25/54	30 December 2013
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
ETOs and Transnational Corruption	11 July 2013
World Social Forum – Tunisia	04 July 2012
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
Sanctuary in the city_ Urban displacement and vulnerability in Damascus A desk study	15 December 2011
The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar	30 June 2011
Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds	17 March 2011
الاتفاقية العربية لمكافحة الفساد، جامعة الدول العربية، 2010	12 December 2010
Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City	01 July 2010
السكن في مصر بين العشوائية والتحضر الرث	22 May 2010
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية	09 March 2010
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :	02 February 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
إعلان حول المسائل والتحديات المتعلقة بالأرض في أفريقيا	03 July 2009
Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa	03 July 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
Urban policies and the right to the city: Rights Responsibilities and Citizenship	16 March 2009
The challenges of the democratic management in Brazil: The right to the city	17 September 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
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
إعلان نييليني	27 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
“Tierra y Liberdad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 19	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
Função social da propriedade: análise histórica	31 August 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)	20 June 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)	20 June 2005
Prohibition of forced evictions, 2004/28	16 April 2004
Interdiction des expulsions forcées, E/CN.4/RES/28	16 April 2004
Prohibition of forced evictions, E/CN.4/RES/2004/28	16 April 2004
La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition	01 July 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
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
A Função Social da Propriedade	01 November 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
“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
”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، 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
"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،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
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
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
لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"	13 December 1991
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4 "The right to housing"	13 December 1991
Comité de los derechos economicos, sociales y culturales, Observación general Nº 4, El derecho a una vivienda adecuada	13 December 1991
الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة	27 June 1989
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
الملكية وظيفة غجتماعية" (خطاب حبيب بورقيبة)"	17 January 1967
Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"	01 March 1946

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