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Egyptian Firms Survey Rafah Ruins for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan
By :Occupation Watch
22 October 2026
Egyptian Firms Surveyed Rafah Ruins Under Israeli Military Escort for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan, Sources Say Two Egyptian sources describe engineers mapping a reconstruction zone in Israeli-controlled Rafah meant to eventually house 20,000 Palestinians under Shin Bet vetting and Egyptian contracting control.     Egyptian engineers walked the rubble of eastern Rafah this year
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E1: Not Just Another Colony
By :Zena Al Tahhan, The Electronic Intifada
13 September 2026
E1: Not just another colony     Governments and global institutions around the world – including some of Israel’s closest allies – have released statements in opposition to the Israeli government’s issuing of a tender for the colonial E1 project, located in the eastern outskirts of occupied Jerusalem city.   On 8 September, the UK,
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The Tip of an Iceberg: Civil Society Interventions at HLPF
By :Bihter Moschini and Joseph Schechla
22 August 2026
The Tip of an Iceberg What underlies civil society’s 2-minute statements on Agenda 2030 reporting     In this contribution, Bihter Moschini and Joseph Schechla look beyond the highly visible two-minute statements delivered by civil society at the HLPF to examine the much larger body of work, coordination and advocacy that lies beneath them.
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Morocco: Scrutinizing World Cup 2030-preparation Impacts
By :Osasu Obayiuwana ,The Guardian
22 July 2026
A host of issues: World Cup focus turns to Morocco with costs and legacy topping agenda With just over 1,400 days to go until 2030 kicks off, the co-hosts are facing a series of challenges familiar to their South African predecessors     Morocco’s World Cup adventure came to a halt with their quarter-final defeat
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Uganda Green Finance 2010-2026
By :HIC-HLRN
30 June 2026

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Local Governments Are Often Slow to Act…until FIFA Comes to Town
By :Steve Lorteau, The Conversation
15 June 2026
Municipal Governments Are Often Slow to Act…Except When FIFA Comes to Town Host cities’ agility in preparing for the World Cup stands in sharp contrast to the usual rhetoric that municipalities cannot accomplish other civic needs with urgency.     With the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicking off, millions of soccer fans around the
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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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The Baku Call to Action
By :WUF13 stakeholders
22 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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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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Returning Forced Evictions to the Development Agenda
By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN
10 April 2026
  Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due to political, technical, and institutional
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Documents (42)

Document Title

Publication Date

Uganda Green Finance 2010-2026

30 June 2026

The Baku Call to Action

26 May 2026

Green Financing in Iraq (project matrix)

09 November 2025

Climate Finance Table - Tunisia

23 August 2024

Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors

15 February 2023

Evolving ETOs

16 June 2022

تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان

23 April 2022

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

"A Pandemic of Violations"

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

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

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

30 October 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

Budha Ismail Jam et al. v, IFC judgment

27 June 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

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

Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,

12 August 2016

What Papua New Guinea Said

26 July 2016

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

29 April 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

Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016

16 November 2015

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

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

15 May 2015

أساسيات الموئل الثالث

16 April 2015

إتفاق حول إعلان مبادئ حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي العظيم

23 March 2015

Renaissance Dam Agreement on Declaration of Principles

23 March 2015

المبادئ الخاصة بإستثمات الارشيدة في الزراعة واانظم الغذئية

18 October 2014

ETOs and Transnational Corruption

11 July 2013

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

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

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

"Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum Declaration

09 March 2006

Planned Dispossession: Forced Evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games

31 December 2005

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

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