The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) sees no alternative to upholding human rights, international law and multilateralism as rules of statecraft for individual countries and the global system. These norms demand progress toward a world of human rights habitat, corresponding approaches that ensure peace, and the self-determination of peoples, including Indigenous Peoples within development states. Therefore, we strongly condemn the illegal aggression by the United States, Israel and collaborating governments against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We also call upon the political class of Iran to make way for governance that upholds universalist values, withdrawing from ideologies and structures driven by religion, nationalism, racism and patriarchy, and pursuing accountability for commission of the catalog of crimes against the Iranian people. HIC also issues the same demand on all states to fulfill their codified obligations within a global order chartered under the terms “We the peoples of the United Nations.”

The United States-Israeli aggression launched, once again, on 28 February 2026 constitutes a bundle of grave crimes in violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations and Article 5 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. We also condemn the decayed UN Security Council for its lopsided and factually distorted resolution 2817, actually blaming the state violated in these Charter-busting actions. These monstrous acts drive more nails in multilateralism’s rapidly closing coffin. We charge the responsible outlaw state representatives’ collective assassination of human rights, peace and world order with liability for this chronicle of a death foretold for as long as Israel’s establishment with General Assembly members’ approval and continued complicity. That development in 1948 forms a perverse irony with the General Assembly’s coincident adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

From every region of its membership, HIC warns —once again— of the suffering that will radiate globally from Western Asia and North Africa as a consequence of United States foreign policy and great power hegemony through residual colonization and other forms of illicit exploitation of peoples and their sovereign natural resources.

In the process, this war already has displaced 3.2 million people in Iran, by March 2026 according to UNHCR, making them homeless through (a) domicidal targeted bombing of homes and residential buildings, (b) destroying infrastructure that supports civil life, (c) attacking public and private institutions maintaining human habitat, including the housing stock, (d) forcing the diversion of resources and capacities for necessary repair and reconstruction; and (e) sparking a global recession by blockading the flow of vital resources and essential commodities, ending affordability for many across regions.

We join our voices in solidarity with our member organizations, friends, and allies in Iran, with its people, and, more generally, with all peoples deprived of a human rights habitat, which requires respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human right to adequate housing at the core. At the same time, we denounce the willful neglect of the international institutions that should be safeguarding peace, but have derogated their mandated human rights framework, effectively eroded international relations to enable normalization of genocide, belligerent occupation and wars of aggression. This rupture has demoralized civil society around the world and shattered the legitimacy of complicit governments and institutions worldwide.

We also join the demand that Israel and the United States cease their predatory war on all fronts, including Palestine and Lebanon, where Israel has a notorious pattern of domicide, targeting Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Syrian and Lebanese homes, shelters and shelter seekers as military doctrine since 1948. The sustained genocide Israel has conducted against the Palestinian people since its inception has never been clearer to current generations than through its aggression in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And Israel is now caught red handed, exporting the same domicidal tactics across southern and eastern Lebanon, effectively laying claim to Lebanese off-shore natural resources with the profligate support of the ghoulish United States hegemon.

We reaffirm that no form of external intervention can be justified under any pretext of security. Rather, in reality, extraterritorial state behavior —by commission and/or omission— has unmasked nefarious geopolitical and economic interests to lay bare the prevailing hypocrisy and double standards that imperil us all.

Finally, we appeal to the Iranian people, heirs of the cradle of civilization, to resolve their internal political and social crisis peacefully and democratically, without external interference, through dialogue, wisdom and respect for human rights, to guarantee the dignity and well-being of all. Our global civic constituents align with the successive advice of the International Court of Justice also to demand from all states to fulfill their peremptory obligations to bring a prompt end to these high crimes of the United States and Israel and their Western allies to enable everyone’s entitlement to a human rights habitat and make full reparations to their victims.

Source:HIC