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Gazan Fishermen Shouldn’t Have to Be So Resilient
By :Ebrahim Hajjaj, writing by Emily Giles, editing by Andrew Heavens and Louise Heavens, Reuters
05 June 2026
Gazan fishermen patch up dinghies with door frames to keep themselves afloat   GAZA—In a Gaza workshop, a group of men patch up pleasure dinghies with reclaimed Fiberglas, wood ​and door frames pulled from the rubble, racing to get the boats ready for a ‌tougher line of work.   The small vessels, which were
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Housing and Land Rights Issues in Azerbaijan
By :HIC-HLRN
23 May 2026
HIC-HLRN has prepared this report on the occasion of the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), 17–22 September 2026. It summarizes the main housing and land rights issues since 2000 in Azerbaijan, the WUF13 host country. This review of events and developments explores the discrepancies between administrative practice and relevant law,
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Somalis Protest Violent Evictions in Mogadishu
By :Hiraan online
09 May 2026
Explainer: What is behind Sunday’s planned anti-government protests in Mogadishu?     MOGADISHU—Somalia’s opposition-aligned Somali Future Council vowed Saturday that planned demonstrations against forced evictions and demolitions in Mogadishu will go ahead Sunday, rejecting government efforts to restrict the protest to a single designated site.   The council said the demonstrations would be peaceful and
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Iraq`s Historic Marshes Revive after Years of Drought
By :Mohammed Aty, Reuters
07 May 2026
Iraq`s historic marshes revive as water returns after years of drought     CHIBAYISH MARSHES, Iraq - After years of drought that left large swathes of Iraq`s historic marshes cracked and ​empty, rising water levels are beginning to revive the wetlands, drawing buffalo herders and fishermen back to ‌areas once abandoned.   In Chibayish marshes
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Cyprus: Debate Erupts as Israeli Investors Grab Abandoned Limassol Village Land
By :Athens Bureau, Greek City News
07 May 2026
Cyprus Debate Grows After Israeli Investors Purchase Land in Abandoned Limassol Village      A growing debate has erupted in Cyprus following reports that an Israeli-owned company has acquired a large area in the abandoned village of Trozena in the Limassol district, with plans to develop a major residential and tourism project.   According to
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Israel Seizes nearly 60% of Gaza, Resumes War
By :Mera Aladam, MEE
04 May 2026
Israel seizes nearly 60 percent of Gaza as it plans to resume war, report says Israeli Army Radio says plans to resume attacks are complete, pending political approval     Israel has expanded its control of the Gaza Strip to nearly 60 percent of the territory despite the ceasefire, as it prepares for a
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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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Palestine: JNF The Land Registration Campaign Stealing East Jerusalem
By :Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Jewish Currents
21 April 2026
The Land Registration Campaign Remaking East Jerusalem Using a revived colonial-era legal process, the Jewish National Fund is quietly transferring long-inhabited Palestinian property into Israeli hands.     Vastly different worlds are visible from Hassan Musa Abu Tair’s house in Umm Tuba, a Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. To the west are the open, green
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Israel’s 5-year Plan to Expand Colonies in Occupied Syrian Golan
By :Mohammad Sio, Anadolu Acensi
16 April 2026
Israel approves 5-year plan to develop illegal settlements in occupied Syrian Golan Heights Government backs $334 million plan to expand Katzrin settlement and boost Israeli population in occupied territory   ISTANBUL—Israel has approved a five-year plan worth about $334 million to develop illegal settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, Israeli media reported
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Sri Lanka: “agricultural advisers” Exposed as Civil War Agents Provocateurs
By :Eitay Mack, The Wire
15 April 2026
Declassified Documents Detail Israel’s Role at the Start of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Recently declassified Israeli archives reveal that in the 1980s, Israel secretly supplied Sri Lanka with millions in weapons, military training disguised as agricultural advice, and even campaign support, despite documented human rights abuses and doubts about a military
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Documents (65)

Document Title

Publication Date

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

26 June 2025

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

11 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

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19

05 October 2020

"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

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 October 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 October 2020

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

25 September 2020

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

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

30 July 2020

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

30 July 2020

“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”

15 November 2019

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

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

06 June 2018

New York City SDG-reporting press release

01 May 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 2017

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

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

15 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad

01 September 2011

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

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

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 2003

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1

17 June 2002

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1

17 June 2002

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23

27 June 1997

أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18

30 June 1994

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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