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Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine
By :HIC-HLRN, LRC & PENGON
01 November 2026
“Israel’s Ecocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with a Focus on the Jewish National Fund” A joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the oPt by the Housing and Land Rights Network–Habitat International Coalition, the Land Research Center, and the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network.     The report presents input to the UN
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Israel Demolishes Bedouin Palestinian Homes, 250 Homeless
By :Nadav Rapaport, Middle East Eye
13 October 2026
 Israel demolishes Bedouin Palestinian homes leaving 250 homeless Palestinian leaders have condemned the demolitions, accusing far-right ministers of using the displacement of Bedouin families to mobilise voters     Israeli forces demolished between 50 and 80 homes and a mosque belonging to a Bedouin Palestinian clan on Monday, leaving about 250 people homeless.   The Israeli
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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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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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Palestine/Israel: Before Elections, Three Major East Jerusalem Colony Plans
By :Ir Amim
14 August 2026
Ahead of Israel`s Elections, Government Advances Three Major Settlement Plans in East Jerusalem   According to an analysis by Ir Amim, three major settlement projects advanced within the past month in East Jerusalem, including a new settlement in Umm Tuba, a new settlement enclave in Umm Lison, and a major expansion of
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Israel`s Violent Jewish Extremists in West Bank
By :Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post
12 August 2026
Israel`s failure to restrain violent Jewish extremists in West Bank reaches new low - analysis How much longer before the IDF entirely loses the power to enforce order on violent Jewish extremists?     The Israeli defense establishment hit a new low on Tuesday and Wednesday regarding its inability to restrain violent Jewish extremists
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Israel Renders Southern Lebanon ‘Unliveable’
By :Raya Jalabi and Aditi Bhandari, Financial Times
12 August 2026
Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’     For three days in early January, Fadia Bazzi’s house in the southern Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil was filled with laughter as her family gathered to ring in the new year.   When they all departed, Bazzi realised she had never photographed the house into
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West Bank/Gaza: Humanitarian Situation Report
By :OCHA
07 August 2026
Highlights   In the West Bank, demolitions displaced 22 people and affected over 100 others in one week. Since 2024, the monthly average of structures demolished in Area C and East Jerusalem has been at least twice the average recorded over the preceding 15 years.   Demolition proceedings affecting four schools in Area C,
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Lebanon: Israel Destroying Precious Historic Sites
By :Isha Chaudhary, Middle East Institute
03 June 2026
Lebanon’s Heritage Sites Under Threat as Conflict Raises Cultural Preservation Concerns     Lebanon’s cultural heritage, spanning Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Ottoman, and modern periods, is once again facing significant risks amid renewed hostilities in the country. Heritage experts, UNESCO, and Lebanese cultural authorities have warned that archaeological sites, historic monuments, religious landmarks, and
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The Baku Call to Action
By :WUF13 stakeholders
26 May 2026
The Baku Call to Action is an inclusive stakeholder-driven document from WUF13, addressing the global housing crisis and proposing integrated, inclusive solutions.   The document emphasizes the urgent need to prioritize housing as a human right, addressing systemic policy failures, inequality, climate impacts, and governance challenges through multi-stakeholder action and structural reform.   Recognizing
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Documents (83)

Document Title

Publication Date

Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine

01 November 2026

The Baku Call to Action

26 May 2026

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA

01 March 2026

الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال

25 October 2025

The Mefane Declaration by the Bagyeli Indigenous Peoples of Akom II Subdivision for Recognition of Their Rights

09 August 2025

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

30 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

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

09 August 2024

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)

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

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

07 January 2022

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

A Human Right to Land

24 February 2021

الأرض كحق من حقوق الانسان

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

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

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

16 September 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

Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie

13 July 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

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

17 January 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 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

Permanent Mission of Turkey response to UN Special Rapporteurs

20 January 2017

Gains and Losses of Habitat III

31 December 2016

UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey

21 September 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

Habitat II Commitments on Indigenous People

21 July 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC

18 November 2015

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

21 October 2015

منهجية لتقارير قطرية للموئل الثالث (مدمجة)

21 September 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

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool

20 July 2015

Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments

30 June 2015

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

15 May 2015

Habitat II Evaluation Criteria

03 March 2015

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”

01 September 2014

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :

02 February 2010

Guidelines on Treaty-Specific Documents to be Submitted by States Parties, E/C.12/2008/2

24 March 2009

United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

02 October 2007

إعلان الأمم المتحدة بشأن حقوق الشعوب الأصلية

02 October 2007

Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones

02 October 2007

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

02 October 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

Government of China’s Implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 of the Covenant)

11 March 2005

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 2003

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1

05 September 2000

Legal Issues arising from Certain Population Transfers and Displacements on the Territory of the Republic of Cyprus in the Period since 20 July 1974

27 June 1999

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

Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

06 June 1986

Declaración de Vancouver

11 June 1976

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1

31 December 1967

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