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Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction: WB, EU & UN Estimate Costs @ $71.4 Billion
By :Press and information team - Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA)
21 April 2026
Final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment estimates $71.4 billion for recovery and reconstruction   In a detailed report rich in passive voice description of loss and damage incurred through Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a new World Bank-EU-UN recovery and reconstruction prospectus does not mention liability or reparations. Israel’s genocide, Hamas
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Day of the Landless 2026
By :Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) et al.
29 March 2026
Defend Our Land and Territories! Forge a Future Free from Imperialist Control! Statement for the Day of the Landless 2026     We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society organizations - unite our voices and struggles
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Defragmenting Palestine: An Alternative to Trump’s Gaza Plan
By :HIC-HLRN
02 October 2025
Palestinians Launch Rights-based Plan for Gaza Ceasefire and End to Occupation.   A new initiative assembled by Palestinians, under the auspices of the Cambridge Initiative for Peace Settlements, proposes an alternative vision to Trump’s Gaza plan – one based on human rights, Palestinian self-determination and an end to the occupation. The paper
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Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria
By :HIC-HLRN, Together for the Protection of the Human and the Environment (Iraq), Insight (Syria), Dibeen Association for Environmental Development (Jordan)
30 May 2025

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Humanitarians in Gaza: “Let us do our jobs!”
By :Various aid agencies
17 April 2025
“Let us do our jobs” — CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing   After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of
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Reflecting on World Urban Forum 12
By :HIC-GS
21 November 2024
This report by the HIC General Secretariat reflects on the events, activities, collaborations and commemorations of Coalition Members and friends at the 12th World Urban Forum, Cairo, 4-8 November 2024.   HIC Events    Social and feminist movement convergence around social production of habitat, with contributions by Massa Kone, HIC Board Representative for Social Movements,
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Climate Finance Table - Tunisia
By :HIC-HLRN
23 August 2024

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Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 29 Now Online
By :HIC-HLRN
21 September 2023
The current Issue 29 of Land Times /أحوال الأرض  seeks to fill some of the gaps in current discourse on the most pressing issues facing the human habitat. It looks beyond contradictions between words and actions to identify the applicable norms that are often forgotten and the need for data,
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UN Experts: International Community Must Act to End Israel’s Annexation of Palestine
By :OHCHR
26 July 2023
International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank would break international law – UN experts call on the international community to ensure accountability   GENEVA—The international community must take steps to
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HIC-HLRN with GLTN on Loss & Damage
By :HIC-HLRN
05 May 2023
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is a dynamic and multisectoral alliance of international partners committed to improving equitable and sustainable access to, use of and governance of land and increasing tenure security for all. GLTN especially focuses on improving the situation of the poor, women and youth. HIC-HLRN is
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Documents (33)

Document Title

Publication Date

Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria

30 May 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

18 September 2022

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

16 March 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

Joint Parallel Report to CEDaW

20 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen

24 October 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

24 October 2021

Global Farmers Strike - First Wave

01 February 2021

"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

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

Toward a New Stakeholder Compact for the New Urban Agenda

30 May 2019

HIC-proposed CSM for UN Habitat

27 May 2019

Milestones in UN Habitat’s Cooperation with Stakeholders: Forward and Backward

14 May 2019

Charting UN Habitat-Stakeholder Engagement

14 May 2019

Open Letter to UN Habitat Executive Director

14 May 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency

02 July 2018

International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”

31 December 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

مبادئ توجيهيـة بشأن الوثائق المتعلقة بمعاهدة محددة التي ينبغي أن تقدمها الدول الأطراف

24 March 2009

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

إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية

29 May 1995

NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

16 June 1992

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