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Documenting Atrocities amid Globalized Indifference
On his first mission to Lampedusa, the largely beloved and recently deceased Pope Francis observed that global displacement and migration are both a subject and a symptom (disease) of globalized indifference. A dozen years later, that charge still applies to most governments and their corporate beneficiaries across the planet. As witnesses to contemporary atrocities and
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A Regional Approach to Remedy Displacement?
The available data from various international organizations generally agree on the estimated numbers of displaced citizens of the countries in the Arab countries. The most regularly updated figures come to us from such practitioner organizations in the displacement field as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the International Organization
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HIC-HLRN at 3rd Arab Land Conference: Restoring HLP Rights across the Region
Morocco hosted the Third Arab Land Conference in Rabat from 18 to 20 February 2025. That round of the important gathering of practitioners organized by the Ministry of National Territory and Urban Planning, Housing, and City Policy , UN-Habitat, Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and the Arab Land Initiative, in partnership with the League of Arab States, UNESCWA, UNECA, the
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MENA Regional Civil Society Assesses Sustainable Development Progress
Ahead of the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD), the Arab NGO Network for Development in collaboration with the members of the Regional Sustainable Development Platform (ATUC, CAWTAR, HIC-HLRN, ARFPD, ANDE, CAWTAR and TI) organized the Regional Meeting for Civil Society on Sustainable Development 2025. The Regional CSO Forum aims to set development priorities from a regional perspective, engage in
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Israel’s Military Doctrine: Targeting Homes, Shelters and Shelter Seekers
Scholars in, from and on Palestine have witnessed—and personally lived—the ongoing displacement of Palestinians as remaining one of the world’s most-pressing humanitarian crises, compelling for scholarly inquiry and meaningful action. On this context, the International Migration and Refugee Studies Program at Birzeit University organized a critical exploration of the dimensions of forced migration and colonialism to foster well-informed understanding of
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Welcoming Egypt’s 1st General Trade Union for Peasants and Small Farmers
After more than three years of struggle and negotiations with the Egyptian government, Egypt’s small-scale farmers celebrated this year’s International Day of Peasant Struggles and Solidarity with Small-scale Farmers (17 April). This year, they succeeded to establish the country’s first general trade union under resolution of the Ministry of Labor issued in 20 February 2025 and published in the Egyptian
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Egyptian Women and Land Norms
Secure tenure of economic resources is an integral part of effective governance and ensuring the human security necessary to live free from fear, poverty, and humiliation. However, secure agricultural land ownership remains unattainable for many women across the world, regardless of their education or socioeconomic status. Women lack ownership of agricultural land and the freedom to dispose of it. Gender
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Remedy and Reparation for Palestine
The principles, plans and current discourse around recovery and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and elsewhere across historic Palestine are being debated while Israel prosecutes its ongoing genocide. Much of the discussion—whether proposals initiated by Egypt, the World Bank, European Union, Union of Gaza Strip Municipalities, or other regional actors—is often technical, material and financial in nature, and mostly omits
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Learning from Morocco’s Climate Action Finance
Climate change in Morocco is expected to significantly impact the country on many levels, as it does for other countries in the MENA region. As a coastal country with a hot and dry climate, the environmental impacts are likely to be broad and diverse.
The impact of these environmental changes on Morocco’s economy is expected to create challenges across all sectors
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War in Sudan Creates World’s Largest and Worst IDP Camp
War in Sudan now enters its third year, while Sudanese people are still suffering a devastating combination of the largest wave of displacement and humanitarian crisis as consequences of armed conflict, between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied Arab militias, and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). The impunity and lack of accountability have enabled atrocities across the country
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The Human Right to Remedy in Libya’s UPR
HIC-HLRN has contributed its stakeholder submission to the UN Human Rights Council for the 4th round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Libya. The submission focuses on housing and land rights of Libyans displaced, posing questions and recommendations for Libya to ensure “effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity” as
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Egyptian Association for Collective Rights
Egyptian Association for Collective Rights established 2009, to seek for building an open society with values of justice, freedom, equity, equality, renunciation of violence, intolerance and hatred, a community ,based on democratic community management in managing its resources as an input to development sustainability and ensuring people’s right to live in dignity and freedom.
EACR is
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Land Research Center - Jerusalem
Land Research Center – Jerusalem (LRC) was founded in 1986 at Jerusalem as part of the Arab Studies Society, established by late Faisal Husseini as an Ottoman Jerusalemite association.
LRC`s vision is to achieve a decent life for the Palestinian People on their land and in their sovereign, democratic state. The Center believes that a decent life for Palestinian men, women,
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Arab Women Report from Beijing+30
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1946 with the aim of promoting gender equality and empowering women. It remains the only United Nations body dedicated to improving the status of women worldwide. CSW has prepared several international conferences and studies addressing women’s political, civil, social, and economic
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Peasants Struggle against Imperialist Plunder, War, and Militarism
Statement for the annual Day of the Landless, 29 March 2025
We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society, reaffirm the anti-imperialist position and the centrality of the peasant struggle for land, food, and justice in achieving sustainable agriculture and food for all.
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UNFPII: The Imperative of Peacebuilding with Indigenous Peoples
UNFPII: The Imperative of Peacebuilding with Indigenous Peoples
In February 2025, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) presented its thematic reports for the upcoming 24th session 21 April–5 May 2025.“Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peacebuilding” (E/C.19/2025/7). The document, authored by Hanieh Moghani, Hannah McGlade and Geoffrey Roth, presents findings on the
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Kashmir: Demolitions, Land Dispossession and Degradation
A day after a 22 April 2025 attack that killed 26 civilians and wounded at least 20 at a popular tourism local at Baisaran, in South Kashmir, local Kashmiris mounted shutdowns and massive protests from nearby Pahalgam to Srinagar, and from Kishtwar to Doda in Jammu. That marked the first time in three decades that militant killings had triggered outrage with such
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HIC Solidarity with the People of Congo (DRC) amid Armed Conflict
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hosts 5.6 million dispossessed and internally displaced people with more than 4 million in the eastern provinces of South Kivu, North Kivu, and Ituri, alongside over 990,000 refugees and asylum seekers from DRC sheltered across the African continent. With this statement, we, Member organizations of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), express their solidarity with
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