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Subsistence and Resistance 2020
This 21st issue of Land Times is rich in positions, perspectives, progress and proposals of civil society in the Middle East/North Africa and the wider world. At least two related themes run in parallel throughout: Land as a source and means of subsistence, and the spirit of resistance amid world’s crises against the consequent loss
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Human Rights CSOs Urge Action on Gaza Water
Palestinian and regional human rights organizations submit joint urgent appeal to UN Special Procedures on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip, oPt.
On 10 November, four Palestinian and regional human rights organizations submitted a joint urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian
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No More Hunger on Earth
Civil society organizations in the Near East/North Africa region presented the following statement at the 35th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC), hosted online by Oman, 21–22 October 2020. Ms. Samah Jaber, of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees- Palestine, presented the statement on 22 September 2020 on behalf of the
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Restitution of Yemen’s Looted Lands
Since the outbreak of the conflict in Yemen in 2014, the Yemeni scene has been developing rapidly, but in a more complex direction. The country has been torn apart year after year, especially with the outbreak of armed conflict following the killing of former President `Ali `Abdullah Salih by the rebel Houthi Movement and the entry of the Arab Coalition
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Land and Civil Society in Sudan
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Darfur region of Sudan are estimated at some 1.64 million (OCHA, 2019). However, it is still not possible to assess the numbers of IDPs living in rural or urban settlements outside of the IDP camps as registration process is inadequate (OCHA, 2018).
Observers report that many IDPs are unlikely to return to their points of
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Western Sahara: Exploiting the People`s Resources
Among the alliances of HLRN against colonization of indigenous peoples’ lands is the Geneva Support Group of NGOs for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Western Sahara. The following is a backgrounder explaining the principal issues arising from the occupation of Western Sahara, which completes 45 years in 2020.
The illegal exploitation of the natural resources and economic activities
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UN Experts Condemn Israel Razing Village
UN experts condemn Israel’s demolition of houses in Palestinian Bedouin community
GENEVA—UN human rights experts* condemned the demolition by Israel of the homes and property belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank, amid a significant rise in property demolitions across the occupied territory.
In early November, at least 73 inhabitants of Khirbat Humsa, including
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Agriculture as Resistance
Agricultural Resistance in Occupied Palestine: The Pillar of Steadfastness amid the Pandemic
The Palestinian farmer, the first and singularly most-effective weapon of resistance to the occupation, is even more consequential and effective at defending the land than any meager “peace process” negotiation. Realizing the value of agricultural land and the importance of agriculture as a means
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HIC-MENA Member Priorities
In September 2020, the HIC Members’ electoral process delivered Ms. Rana Ghanem, of the Social Democratic Forum – Yemen, to represent the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on the Board of Habitat International Coalition for the mandate of 2020–2024. Introducing Rana to her new mandate, local hic Members held a consultation in Cairo on October 25, at Rana’s
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HIC and the Urban Food Insecure Constituency
For a decade now, HIC has represented the urban constituency of people living in food insecurity in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSM) for the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Since 2019, Mr. André Luzzi de Campos, of the HIC Member organization PÓLIS (Brazil) has served as HIC’s representative in the CSM Coordinating Committee (CC).
This year,
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New Report: A Pandemic of Violations
For World Habitat Day and “Urban October” 2020, HIC-HLRN’s report from the HLRN Violation Database reveals patterns and trends in housing and land rights violation around the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the cases of forced eviction, destruction, dispossession and privatization of housing and land of the most-vulnerable communities during a global crisis and pandemic that leave no
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Food Policy amid Crises
Since 2009, HIC’s role on the Coordinating Committee of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has been to ensure that the needs of urban food-insecure communities remain at the forefront of the CFS policy processes on these issues. (See HIC and the Urban Food Insecure Constituency in
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HIC Advises the SRAH Mandate at 20
On the occasion of the 20-year anniversary of the UN Human Rights Council’s mandate of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (SRAH), the newly appointed SR, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, invited all stakeholders to share their views on the achievements of the mandate since its establishment and on future challenges.
For its part, HIC organized a meeting with Members, Friends and allies, as
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Women’s Land and Home in Africa
Despite constraints of the pandemic, phase two of HLRN’s Assessing Impacts of Women’s Dispossession from Land and Home project is well underway. Literature reviews have been developed on women, land and home in both Zimbabwe and Zambia, and HIC Members partners in both countries have now held initial normative training workshops. The Zimbabwe People’s Land Rights Movement hosted the normative
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Land amid COVID
HLRN’s Habitat Day report A Pandemic of Violations reflects some current land struggles of particular groups in the midst of COVID-19, despite eviction moratoriums and other measures to secure tenure. The current pandemic also has given rise to arguments from people’s experience with land as key to survival and, thus, a universal human need.
While monitoring and collecting violation cases as
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World Rural Women and Food Days
The following is the public statement by HLRN on the dual commemorations of the World Day of Rural Women World Food Day on 15–16 October 2020.
Today, 15 October, is the World Day of Rural Women, which is immediate followed by World Food Day, 16 October. On this occasion of dual commemoration, HLRN renews its commitment to study, monitor and document
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Zimbabwe: Land, Food and Shelter Now (ZPLRM)
Zimbabwe People`s Land Rights Movement (ZPLRM): Land, Food, and Shelter Now
Statement from HIC member, the Zimbabwe People`s Land Rights Movement (ZPLRM), on defending land rights in Zimbabwe’s rural resettlement communities.
Hunger and conflict are the face of the African continent. But it was not always so.
It was the formation of the Berlin Conference [1884] that divided the continent into colonies of
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