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Palestine: Save Wadi Fuqin |
02 April 2023 |
Michael Yoshii started this petition
While the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recently issued a statement opposing Israel`s settlement activity, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-council-oks-watered-down-statement-on-israel-settlements/ar-AA17JQgO settlement expansion and infrastructure development continue unabated on the ground. A prime example is the January 2023 announcement of land confiscation orders on 207 dunams (50 acres) of Palestinian land in the West More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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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. More...
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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 More...
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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 More...
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