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Humanitarian Aid to Gaza: ‘A drop in an ocean of need’

By :Doaa El-Bey, ahram.online

03 December 2024

‘A drop in an ocean of need’ Participants in a conference aiming to enhance humanitarian aid to Gaza underlined the importance of the role played by UNRWA The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is “grossly insufficient, inconsistent and unpredictable — a drop in an ocean of need”, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina
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With Full Purpose and Intent: Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians in Their Home, Refuge and Displacement

29 November 2024

On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HIC-HLRN is sharing the most-recent products of its monitoring and documentation of the Indigenous People’s housing and land rights violations, abuses that form the heart of the Zionist colonial project. By invasion, acquisition of territory through force and deception, violent
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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

By :HIC-HLRN

23 August 2024

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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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High-level Political Forum: Adopting the Ministerial Declaration

By :HIC-HLRN

18 July 2024

In closed sessions at the High-level Political Forum (HLPF), 8–18 July 2024, state delegations had negotiated for over 70 hours, with 20 informal and three informal sessions. These aimed at “making every effort to bring together the different opposing positions and present an ambitious and balanced [outcome] document,” as Pres.
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MSc Urbanism Scholarship: Stuttgart-Cairo

24 June 2024

MSc Urbanism Scholarship: Stuttgart-Cairo Application open for scholarships in integrated urbanism! EPOS scholarships by DAAD for the 2024 MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design programme are open for application now! This interdisciplinary double-degree links perspectives from the South and North by studying the first year at University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the second
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ICAHD_May_2024_report

By :HIC-HLRN

08 June 2024

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Israeli Firms Selling Stolen Palestinian Land to US Jews

By :Middle East Monitor

15 April 2024

Israeli Firms Are Working Overtime to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land to US Jews The real estate events peddling land in Israeli settlements in the West Bank appear to flout US and international law. “Your chance to own a piece of the Holy Land!” exclaims the cheerful advertising copy on a real estate website aimed
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Coveting Land, Targeting Homes, Shelters and Shelter Seekers: Israel’s raison d’état, military doctrine and consistent practice

By :Joseph Schechla

30 March 2024

Israel’s targeting of homes, shelters and shelter seekers has characterized its ongoing genocide against the Indigenous Palestinian people in Gaza. Notably, this also features in the West Bank, as indeed across historic Palestine and throughout the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology. To commemorate Palestine’s Day of the Land 2024, HIC-HLRN
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Israel Refuses to Recognize Palestinian Villages it Plans to Confiscate

By :Mat Nashed, Aljazeera

28 February 2024

Israel doesn’t recognise 35 Palestinian Bedouin villages, giving them pretext to uproot communities from their land. Naqab Desert – Israel is building a town exclusively for Jewish Israelis. To do so, it is building over homes it destroyed in Umm al-Hiran, a Palestinian Bedouin village in southern Israel. In January 2017, security
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Documents (227)

Document Title	Publication Date
Climate Finance Table - Tunisia	23 August 2024
Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change	21 November 2023
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
Climate Finance in Egypt (table)	10 March 2023
Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors	15 February 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 (العدالة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأطراف الفاعلة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)	19 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
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
How to consider climate change-related cases in the VDB	07 September 2022
Comment aborder les cas liés au changement climatique dans la BDV	07 September 2022
Proposed structure for UN-Habitat Stakeholder Engagement Policy	15 June 2022
UN system practices for selected agencies, funds and programmes	15 June 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on women`s political leadership	20 May 2022
Africities9 CSO statement on social justice	20 May 2022
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان	23 April 2022
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review	31 January 2022
Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole	07 January 2022
Climate Justice	25 November 2021
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
SR_Questionnaire_discrimination_housing_AR	07 April 2021
Crowborough letter	25 February 2021
The GLTN Approach to Land	24 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 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
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 December 2020
"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
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 October 2020
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 October 2020
Input to HIC-HLRN World Habitat Day Report 2020	25 September 2020
Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid	16 September 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
Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development	09 February 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
بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة	20 December 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities	31 August 2019
Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie	13 July 2019
Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda	30 May 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
Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT	22 October 2018
HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency	02 July 2018
New York City SDG-reporting press release	01 May 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 April 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى	17 November 2017
Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut	17 November 2017
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	25 October 2017
Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement	02 September 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
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
Gains and Losses of Habitat III	09 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	23 June 2017
الحق في المدينة المفاهيم العامة وتطبيقها على الصعيد المحلي	14 June 2017
تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة	28 February 2017
Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs	20 January 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
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)	23 December 2016
Habitat III Statement	20 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), A/CONF.226/4	29 September 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016	10 September 2016
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool	27 August 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 2016
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016	28 July 2016
What Papua New Guinea Said	26 July 2016
A Tool for Evaluative Habitat III Reporting: Responding to the Need for Implementation Reports	24 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
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 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
Statement of the Brazilian Civil Society on the New Urban Agenda	31 May 2016
The Transformation of UN-Habitat	15 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
Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development	22 December 2015
"Building Climate-resilient Societies," HIC statement to COP21	04 December 2015
"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
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Reporte National de México para Hábitat III	20 October 2015
منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)	21 September 2015
Habitat II Baby, Habitat III Bathwater	10 August 2015
“The role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights,” A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
Rôle des administrations locales dans la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme, A/HRC/30/49	07 August 2015
دور الحكومة المحلية في تعزيز وحماية حقوق الإنسان - التقرير النهائي للجنة الاستشارية لمجلس حقوق الإنسان، A/HRC/30/49	07 August 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
National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool	20 July 2015
Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
الممارسات العمرانية الموازية في مصر 2015	29 June 2015
HIC Comments to the HRC-AC Local government and human rights draft report	15 June 2015
Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates	11 May 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Global Taskforce Inputs for Habitat III PrepCom 2	13 April 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
El papel de las autoridades locales y otros niveles subnacionales de gobierno, A/HRC/28/62	22 December 2014
Vienna, Menschenrechte in der Stadt: Eine Stadt für Alle	19 December 2014
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
تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن	05 August 2014
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
ETOs and Transnational Corruption	11 July 2013
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, Raquel Rolnik, Mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, A/HRC/22/4	24 December 2012
Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village	12 December 2012
World Social Forum – Tunisia	04 July 2012
Urban Social Forum, Naples, Italy, 3-7 September 2012	04 July 2012
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (Korean Language)	21 May 2012
Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)	21 May 2012
Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo	11 February 2012
منتدى الأرض، الدورة الثالثة "الأرض وسيادة الشعوب وتقرير المصير"	17 January 2012
Sanctuary in the city_ Urban displacement and vulnerability in Damascus A desk study	15 December 2011
Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad	01 September 2011
The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar	30 June 2011
Gwangju Declaration on Human Right City	17 May 2011
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)	18 July 2010
Report of SR related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation Mission to Egypt July 2010	05 July 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
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
دراسة برلمانية تحليلية حول موضوع: التنمية الإسكانية المستدامة	14 October 2008
“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”	01 October 2008
The challenges of the democratic management in Brazil: The right to the city	17 September 2008
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa	15 June 2008
المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية بشأن عمليات الإخلاء بدافع التنمية والمهجرين، A/ HRC/4/18	26 August 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
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
Social Production of Housing in Mexico: Its National Importance and Its Economic Impact on Poor Households	30 September 2006
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life	16 May 2006
Urban Bias: The Continuing Debate	21 April 2006
Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games	31 December 2005
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Arabic version)	20 June 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (English version)	20 June 2005
Montréal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (French version)	20 June 2005
Charter for Women`s Right to the City	01 September 2004
Informe sobre el Pacto Internacional de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales – PIDESC	14 November 2003
La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition	01 July 2003
التعليق العام رقم 15، الحق في الماء	20 January 2003
General Comment No. 15 (2002), The right to water	20 January 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
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1	17 June 2002
House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem	14 February 2002
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
Lessons in Privatization: Considerations for Arab States	01 January 2002
Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India	01 January 2002
In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar	31 December 2001
A Função Social da Propriedade	01 November 2001
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة	24 October 2001
Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development	24 October 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
قانون المدينة: مفاهيم ووسائل جديدة (برازيل)	10 September 2001
Statute of the City (law No. 10257) general guidelines for urban policy and other measures	21 July 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	11 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	09 June 2001
إعلان بشأن المدن والمستوطنات البشرية الأخرى في الألفية الجديدة، دإ-25/	09 June 2001
Statement before the special Plenary Session on NGO participation, Habitat II+5 Second Preparatory Committee	21 February 2001
European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City	18 May 2000
A Doutrina da Função Social da Propriedade	01 March 2000
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 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
Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda	30 June 1996
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
European Charter for Women in the City	01 March 1994
"إعلان ريو بشأن البيئة والتنمية"، "جدول أعمال القرن 21،" تقرير الأمم المتحدة المعني بالبيئة والتنمية، A / CONF.151 / 26 (المجلد الأول)	12 August 1992
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages	16 June 1992
Agenda 21	14 June 1992
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
Flood Control & Marine Pollution of Continental Origin, Institute of International Law, 55th Conference	17 August 1972
Right to the City in Greater Beirut p	01 January 1970
Henri Lefebvre, “Le droit à la ville,” L`Homme et la société, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1967)	01 June 1967

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