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News (10)
100 Organizations Reject ‘Ceasefire’ to Describe Gaza Situation
By :100 NGOs
09 October 2026
Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say more than 100 organizations   One year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.   Joint statement   One year after
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Collective Power? Struggling to Protect Land and Environmental Defenders
16 September 2026
Our friends at Global Witness have just produced another partial annual report on land and environment defenders killed in 2025. It cites only 3 victims in all of Africa and none in the besieged West Asia and North Africa (MENA). It does not count the many Palestinian farmers, pastoralists and
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Colombia: Indigenous Leaders Murdered after Repeated Warnings about Risks
By :Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI)
11 September 2026
Colombia: María Ovidia Palechor and James Flor Murdered After Repeated Warnings About Risks to Indigenous Leaders   The Camino de los Ancestros Elders’ Collective and Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) condemn the murders of Yanakuna indigenous leader María Ovidia Palechor and her husband, James Flor, which happened on 1 September 2026, in
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UNCCD CoP 17: Territories in Motion
By :ICCA Consortium
18 August 2026
Pastoralist voices, living territories and collective action for resilient rangelandsat UNCCD CoP17.   At UNCCD COP17, the ICCA Consortium is joining pastoralist communities, Members, partners and allies to highlight the vital role of pastoral territories of life. Through publications, community stories, policy messages and events, we are showing how mobility, customary governance,
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South Africa: Landmark Judgment Halts Fossil Fuel Exploration
By :Ferdinand Omondi, Greenpeace
14 August 2026
Landmark judgment in South Africa permanently halts Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas exploration     JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s Constitutional Court has delivered a decisive victory for Wild Coast communities, ocean justice and environmental rights, by setting aside the exploration right that would have allowed Shell and Impact Africa to search for oil and
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UN General Assembly Recommits to New Urban Agenda
By :HIC-HLRN
17 July 2026
NEW YORK—The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a political declaration today, recommitting countries to the 2016 New Urban Agenda at is mid-term of its implementation (2016–36). The states also warned that rapid urbanization is outpacing progress, as some 3 billion people still lack safe, adequate and affordable housing, over 330
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Uganda Green Finance 2010-2026
By :HIC-HLRN
30 June 2026

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Vancouver’s Habitat 1976 still Delivering Lessons in Housing
By :Kerry Gold, The Globe and Mail
23 June 2026
Vancouver’s Habitat 76 still delivering lessons in housing     Fifty years ago, some of the world’s leading experts in cities, housing and human rights arrived in Vancouver for a United Nations conference on how to house a growing world population, the first conference on human settlements.   From 31 May to 11 June, Vancouver
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Reparations Bibliography
By :Regularly updated compilation of published sources on the subject of reparations for Palestine
26 April 2026

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Message to the 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
By :various organizations
21 April 2026
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels aims to advance collective efforts to phase out fossil fuels. The conference will identify legal, economic, and social pathways to phase out fossil fuels.   The conference will take place from 28-29 April, and will comprise plenary and parallel thematic sessions with high-level
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Documents (123)

Document Title

Publication Date

Uganda Green Finance 2010-2026

30 June 2026

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

Reparations Bibliography

28 March 2026

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe

15 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparations Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)

22 April 2025

Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya

07 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)

09 March 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

La Déclaration Mefane des Peuples Autochtones Bagyeli de la subdivision Akom II pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits

09 August 2024

Assessing Loss and Damage Impacts Associated with Climate Change

21 November 2023

Perspectives de la société civile sur l`utilisation et l`application des Directives Volontaires sur la Gouvernance Responsable des Régimes Fonciers Applicables aux Terres, aux Pêches et aux Forêts

06 September 2023

General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change

22 August 2023

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Climate Finance in Egypt (table)

10 March 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on impacts of climate change

09 December 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

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 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

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

07 January 2022

Climate Justice

25 November 2021

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 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

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

Land Inequality Framing Document

30 October 2019

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

06 September 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

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

02 July 2018

"No hunger on earth as of today"

21 February 2018

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA

30 October 2017

برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا

25 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

ชุมชนกะเหรี่ยงในพม่ำยื่นคำร้องเรียนต

19 June 2017

The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition

24 January 2017

المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة

23 January 2017

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

31 December 2016

The Impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

28 October 2016

Queer Declaration calling for inclusion in Habitat 3

07 September 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Rural Habitat

21 July 2016

Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda

19 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

CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets

09 June 2016

Déclaration Finale, Atelier de formation des Communautés Locales d’Inga sur La Quantification des conséquences du déplacement

29 April 2016

Livret vert de la Convergence

19 March 2016

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

19 March 2016

التوصية العامة رقم 34 بشأن حقوق المرأة الريفية

07 March 2016

Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)

31 January 2016

The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 December 2015

اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1

12 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

إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة

15 October 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 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

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

تقرير المقررة الخاصة المعنية بحق الإنسان في الحصول على مياه الشرب المأمونة وخدمات الصرف الصحي: البعثة إلى الأردن

05 August 2014

Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises

12 August 2013

Gwangju Human Rights Charter (English version)

21 May 2012

Urban policies and the right to the city: Rights Responsibilities and Citizenship

16 March 2009

“De Vancouver 1976 a Vancouver 2006: Una revisión critica desde la perspectiva no gubernamental”

01 October 2008

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

15 June 2008

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

02 October 2007

إعلان توصيات مؤتمر الفلاحين الدولى - إعلان نياليني

27 February 2007

إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود

15 June 2006

The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life

16 May 2006

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

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

Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development

24 October 2001

المسؤلية الدولية عن النتائج الضارة الناجمة عن أفعال لا يحظرها القانون الدولي (منع الضرر العابر للحدود الناجم عن أنشطة الخانرة)

10 August 2001

The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)

22 July 1999

“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

”دراسة في المعاهدات والاتفاقات وغيرها من الترتيبات البنّاءة بين الدول والسكان الشعوب الأصلية،" تقرير نهائي مقدم من المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20

22 June 1999

Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, New York, 21 May 1997.

21 May 1997

اتفاقية قانون استخدام المجاري المائية الدولية في الأغراض غير الملاحية

21 May 1997

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

إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية

14 April 1996

Constructing a New Social Alternative

03 February 1996

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.

14 October 1994

اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر في البلدان التي تعاني من الجفاف الشديد و /أو من التصحر، وبخاصة في إفريقيا

14 October 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

Agenda 21

14 June 1992

لجنة الحقوق الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الثقافية، التعليق العام رقم 4 "الحق في السكن"

13 December 1991

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 4 "The right to housing"

13 December 1991

الاتفاقية رقم 169 بشأن الشعوب الأصلية والقبلية في البلدان المستقلة

27 June 1989

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

Convention and Statute on the Régime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern

17 March 1921

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