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Rest in Peace and Power, Khadija Catherine Razavi
By :CENESTA
16 April 2022
With a broken heart and extreme sadness, we have to inform you all that our beloved Chair of the Board, Khadija Catherine Razavi, passed away on Saturday, 16 April 2022. Catherine was an outspoken, strong, and unwavering voice for the non-human environment and an essential advocate for the continuous existence
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Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
By :WSUSA and HIC-HLRN
16 March 2022

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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
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CSOs: UN Food Systems Pre-Summit Fails
By :CSM
02 August 2021
Thousands of people gather at counter-mobilization to reiterate “We need food systems that empower people, not companies”   UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, which totalled almost 9,000 people.     ROME—Between 25 and 28 July 2021, some 9,000 people participated in a
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Sierra Leone: ‘Ecological Disaster’ in Paradise
By :Abdul Brima, China Dialogue Ocean
18 June 2021
Sierra Leone sells precious beach to build Chinese-funded fishing port   Locals say the government’s decision to sell land at Black Johnson, an ecotourism destination, is a `human and ecological disaster`     Months after becoming Sierra Leone’s president in 2018, Julius Maada Bio scrapped a much-hyped international airport that his predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma,
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Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School
By :Al-Haq
21 April 2021
Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School Program 31 May–12 June 2021   Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Seventh International Law Summer School for professionals, legal researchers, post-graduates and academics in the fields of international law and human rights. The 2021 program will run entirely online through
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Crowborough letter
By :HIC-HLRN
25 February 2021

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Global Farmers Strike - First Wave
By :Disha Ravi
01 February 2021

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Blowing up Softly: A Climate Activism Guide
By :Scott W. Stern, Los Angeles Times Review of Books
05 January 2021
Sabotage Can Be Done Softly: On Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”     One morning in the summer of 2007, five dozen SUV owners in an affluent part of Stockholm awoke to find their cars “reclining on the asphalt.” On their windshields, they found a leaflet. “We have deflated one
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New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"
By :HIC-HLRN
05 October 2020
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database.   This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights violation around the world is dedicated to the theme: A Pandemic of Violations: Forced Evictions
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Documents (19)

Document Title

Publication Date

Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

16 March 2022

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique

10 February 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT

22 October 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Tunisia: Jemna Oasis Land Struggle

13 April 2017

Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3

07 September 2016

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l`eau

19 March 2016

المنتدى الحضري العالمي السادس: مستقبل المدن

09 July 2012

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda

30 June 1996

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

HIC Global Policy Declaration

15 June 1989

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