News (10)
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"HR, Environmental Law Must Govern Business" |
By :David Boyd, OHCHR |
04 July 2022 |
Human rights and environmental due diligence laws crucial to combat irresponsible business activities – UN expert
Press release
GENEVA—Rampant deforestation, chemical and plastic production, fossil fuel exploitation and other large-scale extractive activities by business entities are harming people and the planet, a UN expert said today, introducing a blueprint for laws to 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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Petition for UN to Divest from Bolloré Group |
By :Oakland Institute |
14 February 2022 |
While the United Nations works to fight poverty and hunger, UN organizations such as the UNDP, WFP and UNICEF show a striking lack of due diligence when choosing contractors such as the French Bolloré Group. Bolloré`s subsidiary Socfin is accused of corruption and land grabbing. Tell the UN to drop More...
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
By :HIC-HLRN |
15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and More...
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Occupied West Papua: A Green State Vision |
By :Danny Chivers and Raki Ap, New internationalist |
04 November 2021 |
Research shows that when indigenous people have proper control of forests, biodiversity is much better protected. Danny Chivers speaks to Raki Ap about the case for supporting West Papuan statehood.
Unfortunately, West Papua does not have a seat at the table in the UN climate talks currently taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. That’s because it’s More...
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Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen |
By :HIC-HLRN |
24 October 2021 |
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Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire |
By :HIC-HLRN |
18 October 2021 |
HLRN has produced a new publication on the occasion of World Human Rights Habitat Day 2021 and the ensuing month of related activities. The study Conflict, Occupation and War disaggregates data from the HLRN Violation Database to focus on the gross violations of the human rights to adequate housing and More...
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Port Sudan in a Geopolitical Scramble |
By :Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed, Sudan blog |
31 July 2021 |
Port Sudan caught in the international race to control the Red Sea region
The whole world is wrangling for control over the Red Sea region. The United Arab Emirates are playing all of their cards to secure control over the trade routes. And while Sudan is increasingly turning to Europe for More...
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Land, Women and Socio-Economic Development in the Arab Region: A Literature Review |
By :Joseph Schechla |
18 April 2021 |
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Publication Date |
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen
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24 October 2021 |
Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire
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18 October 2021 |
Un derecho humano a la tierra
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05 August 2021 |
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan
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28 January 2021 |
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
Violaciones en el Perú sobre los derechos a la vivienda y a la tierra durante la pandemia
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05 October 2020 |
Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond
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13 July 2020 |
Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities
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31 August 2019 |
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”
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31 December 2017 |
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
Land Forum VI program
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25 October 2017 |
SDG 6
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18 July 2017 |
Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs
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10 July 2017 |
General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities
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23 June 2017 |
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition
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24 January 2017 |
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,
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12 August 2016 |
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
HIC @ Habitat III
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23 June 2016 |
HLRN-India Launches Habitat III Status Report
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05 February 2016 |
Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III
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02 February 2016 |
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)
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31 January 2016 |
Comentarios de HIC a los Documentos Marco sobre Políticas de Hábitat III (resumen)
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31 January 2016 |
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
HIC-HLRN and A.S.I.A. Report on Italy
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27 August 2015 |
Herramienta para los Informes Nacionales Paralelos de Hábitat III
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03 August 2015 |
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
Guía para el derecho a la ciudad
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21 July 2015 |
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool
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20 July 2015 |
Principios Básicos de Habitat III
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16 April 2015 |
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria
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03 March 2015 |
Le rôle de l’échelon local et des autres échelons infranationaux d’administration en matière de droit à un logement convenable, A/HRC/28/62
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22 December 2014 |
HIC response to HRC-AC Local government and human rights questionnaire
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15 November 2014 |
The Right to the City: Cairo
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03 November 2014 |
The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (1)
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18 July 2010 |
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”
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01 October 2008 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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26 August 2007 |
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, A/HRC/4/18
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05 February 2007 |
Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States
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01 January 2002 |
Constructing a New Social Alternative
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03 February 1996 |