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From Displacement to Remedy
HLRN’s eighth periodic Land Forum in 2024 explored synergies with HIC Members and allies in the MENA region to achieve “Remedies for Protracted Displacement due to Conflict and Climate Change [AR].” Both drivers of MENA displacement are urgent priorities requiring greater capabilities to document, quantify and durably solve the displacement of nearly 40 million persons
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Envisioning Gaza Reconstruction
The previous issue of Land Times/أحوال الأرض reported on efforts to put a number on the material costs of Israel’s destruction of Gaza over time, with a focus on the period of the ongoing genocide. While the human, material and environmental costs of Israel’s colonization of the country may defy quantification, the context of recent history is essential to the
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Perpetuating Neglected Displacement across Sudan
A year and half have passed since full-scale civil war erupted in April 2023 between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its off-shoot Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The war has killed more than 18,000 people, and wounded 33,000, and forced around 11 million people from their homes. More than 2 million of them have sought asylum and refuge in neighboring
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Palestinian Farmers: A Year of Israeli Genocide
The Fight for Survival within Their Struggle for Food Sovereignty
For over a year, Palestine has endured the relentless onslaught of Israeli genocidal warfare, coupled with 76 years of ongoing settler colonialism, systemic land theft, and deliberate attacks on indigenous food systems. This dark anniversary serves as a stark reminder of the escalating intensity of Israeli settler colonialism across all of
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A Structural Weaponization of Food
While the commemoration of the International Day of Action for People`s Food Sovereignty and against Transnational Corporations falls on 16 October, global social and political movements continue their tireless efforts to achieve popular sovereignty over the people`s natural resources and food. This year, the MENA region is sliding toward a conflagration that will increase the suffering of traditional rural communities,
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Financing the Green Transition in Tunisia
Tunisia is at the heart of one of the most water-scarce regions on the planet. As the effects of climate change progress, some predict that Tunisia will rank 33rd among the world’s most water-stressed countries by 2040.
A study published in March 2024 ranked Tunisia as the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to drought and water shortages. With overexploitation
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Istanbul Should Not Be an Olympic City – 2
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris last summer raised the usual contradiction between high entertainment and the preparations that saw forced evictions of the most vulnerable in the host city, among other human rights violations. (See “Mega-events, human rights and the Paris Olympics,” Land Times/أحوال الأرض, Issue 30 July 2024.) The prospects of host in the Mediterranean region have come
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Marginalized in Yemen: Struggle for Basic Rights amid Displacement and Conflict
Marginalized in Yemen: Struggle for Basic Rights amid Displacement and Conflict
Amid Yemen`s ongoing conflict, racialized and marginalized groups face precarious conditions worsened by forced displacement and the comprehensive collapse of infrastructure and basic services. Living in dire poverty before the current civil war, foreign occupation and armed conflict, the most afflicted are those Muhammashin, also traditionally known also as al-Akhdam
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Land Forum VIII: Remedies for Displacement
Over 11–12 May, HIC-HLRN organized the eighth session of its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional Land Forum at Istanbul, Türkiye, under the theme “Remedies for Protracted Displacement due to Conflict and Climate Change.” The Forum sought to align participants’ organizations` programs related to land and natural resources management, and to unify efforts in favor of restoring housing, land
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National Union of Sahrawi Women
A new HIC Member, the National Union of Sahrawi Women (NUSW) was founded in 1974 and, more recently, guided by the work of Aminatou Haidar, the renowned Sahrawi human rights defender. In 2024, NUSW is celebrating a half century of human rights and development work.
NUSW is a coalition of female activists that monitors human rights
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New Woman Foundation
Equitable and sustainable access to, use of and control over economic resources is integral to rural people’s effectively ensuring their livelihood, well-being and human security as human needs and, therefore, human rights and a life with dignity, free from fear, poverty and humiliation. However, secure tenure of agricultural land is out of reach for many women in their half the
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HIC @ WUF 12
On 4–8 November 2024, Cairo hosted the 12th World Urban Forum (WUF), which global gathering UN Habitat organizes every other year to bring together practitioners in human settlement development. For HIC, it is a space to raise collective priorities and share experiences with allies.
This 12th edition of WUF took place amid increased privatization and financialization of housing and land, shrinking space
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Toward Remedy: What’s Happening with the Loss & Damage Fund?
The Executive Board of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FLD) Board held its 4th meeting in Manila, its new secretariat, on 2–5 December 2024. It was its 1st meeting since the selection of the Executive Director (ED), Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, which happened at the 3rd meeting at Baku, in September. This time, the Board was able to
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CoP29: Global North Breaches Trust, Collaboration, Protocol
Global civil society has characterized to CoP29 as a carefully manipulated breach of confidence by Global North governments for using the Baku climate talks to sideline the core principles of a treaty-party-driven process to finalize their decades-long conspiracy to renege on the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement.
They identified the political bullies, led by the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, for having failed
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High-level Political Forum: Calls for Integrity in UN Development System
If ever we are to achieve the UN we need, the UN System must have more integrity by simultaneously upholding the Charter’s three cardinal pillars (• peace and security • forward development • human rights).That was one of the key messages that HIC-HLRN brought to the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) at UN HQ (New York) in July 2024, the annual
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More Kashmir Land Deprivation
The denial of Kashmir’s land sovereignty has a long history. Since 1947, geopolitics has resulted in the partition of Kashmir and the country’s occupation by India and Pakistan, and, since 1963, China in the northeast, thereby denying the people of Kashmir the right to self-determination. Since August 2019, Indian Parliament’s Reorganization Act and the Narendra Modi Administration have intensified Indian
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