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Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters
By :HIC-HLRN
22 February 2023
Cairo, 22 February 2023 Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters     HIC-HLRN is deeply saddened by the massive and widespread destruction, loss of tens of thousands of lives, and the displacement, dispossession and homelessness of millions by two devastating magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 Mw earthquakes that struck southeastern Türkiye and northwest Syria on
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Urgent Action South Africa: Ayanda Ngila Murdered
By :HIC-HLRN
16 March 2022
HIC-HLRN call for urgent action on the murder of land defender Ayanda Ngila     Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN), with its member organizations across the African continent, the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, stands in solidarity with those grieving the murder of South African land rights defender
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Crowborough letter
By :HIC-HLRN
25 February 2021

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UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions
By :HIC-HLRN
21 December 2020
After the standard 60-day embargo on releasing such communications, the 12 October joint letter of seven UN Special Rapporteurs (SRs) to the Israeli government is now public. The SRs on adequate housing, cultural rights, human rights defenders, the rights of indigenous peoples, the human rights of internally displaced persons, minority
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Palestine/Israel: CSOs Urge Prisoners’ Release
By :Civil society organizations
18 April 2020
On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Civil Society Calls for Urgent Release of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons     As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers. While governments around the world are
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Pakistan: HIC Member Assaulted, Threatened
By :HIC-HLRN
31 October 2019
Human Rights Defender Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot threatened and physically assaulted     Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot, human rights defender and director of HIC Member organization has been attacked outside his home in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The mob of unidentified men attacking the defender accused him of inciting sectarian violence and committing blasphemy.   Dr.
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AU Summit on Displacement Crisis
By :HIC-HLRN
09 February 2019
Already 55 years ago, the Organization of African States was born with the purpose of peace and unity in what is now the African Union (AU), the largest regional organization on earth. This year, the 32nd regular annual AU summit at Addis Ababa (10–11 February 2019) focuses on another distinguishing
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Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs
By :Permanent Mission of Turkey
20 January 2017

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Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities
By :Union of Southeastern Anatolia Region Municipalities (GABB)
11 October 2016
As expected, after the arrests of co-mayors, the government appointed a district governor as the trustee of Diyarbakır Municipality this evening.   Up to now, the AKP government has appointed trustees to 28 municipalities (24 of them Peoples` Democratic Party or Democratic Party of the Peoples—HDP/BDP).   According to legal procedures, when
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UN Special Rapporteurs
By :OHCHR
21 September 2016

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Documents (6)

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Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities

11 October 2016

Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities

11 October 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

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