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Transitions
The Earth and the larger universe are in perpetual motion and transformation. Nothing illustrates this better in the recent period than the images coming back to us from the James Webb Telescope as of July 2022.
On our own planet, climate change forms the gravest danger to terrestrial life as we know it. That peril has
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Land Rights in War-torn Yemen
States are required to uphold their human rights obligations in all circumstances, even during emergencies and crises such as civil war. Yemen exemplified that principle as it underwent the third periodic review of implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The state party presented its report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR),
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Sudan: From Charity to Development
In transitional countries and contexts, one of the greatest challenges for civil society, in general, and nongovernmental organizations, in particular, is their corresponding development from charity and relief work in crises to more-mature development roles. That transition involves developing, developing into, and contributing to institutions that formulate and implement development policies.
That was the subject of HLRN’s recent project, twinning with
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Türkiye-Syria Earthquake Update
On the occasion of the tragic double earthquake of 6 February, devastating southeast Türkiye and northwestern Syria, HIC-HLRN translated and published an article in the newspaper Bir Gün by Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal. It recalled the lessons and repeated warnings dismissed and policy decisions that only exacerbated the destruction and resulting casualties. Land Times/أحوالالأرض republishes the piece here with updated figures
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Barcelona Breaks Links with Tel Aviv
Since Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau responded to citizen demands by committing to suspend twinning relations with Tel Aviv and Israel until Israeli authorities end apartheid against the Palestinian people, she has suffered a backlash of defamation. However, Mayor Colau and Barcelona have taken this courageous move consistent with the city’s extraterritorial human rights obligations under peremptory norms of international law.
Joining
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MENA Region in the Global Food Crisis Response
On 14 December 2022, the World Council of Churches (WCC), in collaboration with the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), held a global webinar “Global Food Crisis and the Responses: a comprehensive update and discussion.” Its aim was to update WCC and CSIPM respective constituencies with a consolidated
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Green-transition Finance in Egypt
Climate changes are increasing with each passing day, including in already-arid Egypt, where the population faces additional environmental stresses, including extreme temperatures, irregular precipitation, sea level rise and land subsidence, coastal flooding, shoreline erosion, deteriorating soil salinity, and persistent drought. These are also mutually reinforcing phenomena with impacts that will exacerbate each other, increasing water scarcity, thus hindering food security,
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Arab Civil Society Reviews Development Progress
At the midpoint in its implementation, it is evident that the 2030 Agenda (“transforming our world”) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are faltering. The universal commitments to achieve a sustainable, prosperous and peaceful world for everyone are not achieving the promised objectives. Hampered by multiple crises, the systemic and structural challenges at political, socio-economic, cultural and environmental transformation
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Annexation and Expansion...Displacement and Reallocation: The Zionist Israeli Agenda
Statement by Land Research Center on the 47th Palestinian Land Day, 30 March 2023
In 1976, the Israeli occupation masterminds came up with a plan to develop the Galilee (designated by the UN partition plan to be part of the Arab state in Palestine) as “Jewish” by continuing the expropriation of the land of Palestine occupied
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Humanitas-Solidaris (Cameroon)
Humanitas-Solidaris (Cameroon) is a civic association for the defense and promotion of universal human rights. It envisions a better world with secure and equitable access to, use of, and control over land for all, to a human rights habitat with adequate housing, food and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. As such, Humanitas-Solidaris (Cameroon) is an association dedicated to working
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Join Learning and Advocacy for Climate Justice and Social Production of Habitat
Habitat International Coalition has launched its call for the second phase of its Co-Learning Spaces project, which will focus on Social Production of Habitat and Climate Justice. The project is based on the interests and inputs by HIC Members, and facilitated by the HIC Reference Centers (HIC-HLRN, HIC-MENA, and HIC-AL) and the General Secretariat.
Calls for applications for facilitators for each
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Cameroon: Forced Eviction at Vallée Bessenguè
Hundreds of families rendered homeless in Douala
The year 2023 was off to a difficult start for the impoverished communities of Douala, Cameroon’s commercial capital. Some 400–500 inhabitants of the Bessenguè Valley quarter of Douala saw local authorities raze their houses over 500m2 by the authorities of the Wouri District on 5 January. The families spent their next nights under the
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Children’s Rights and the Environment
Law, as a common feature across humanity, is evolutionary in nature. Developing international law norms and standards, the UN Human Rights System has been advancing toward greater clarity on the human rights dimensions of the environment. This process has been delayed for centuries by philosophical notions of human/nature dualism, rooted in the Old Testament and championed by Western thinkers, alienating
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Land and States’ ICESCR Obligations
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) adopted its long-awaited General Comment (GC) No. 26 on land and economic, social and cultural rights on 22 December 2022. The adopted version is a vast improvement over the earlier draft, which HIC-HLRN has addressed in Land Times/أحوال الأرض (Issues. 15, 19, 22 and 24) and a separate publication of its
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UN Habitat Stakeholder Update
The long process toward the establishment of a stakeholder-engagement mechanism (SEM) for UN-Habitat Intergovernmental Meetings seeks to enhance the current practice by building on the proposals by stakeholders and the UN system-wide experience. As of January 2023, UN Habitat’s Executive Board Ad Hoc Working Group on the SEM reviewed three proposals from Habitat International Coalition, the UN Habitat executive director’s
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Taking Kashmir Land under Indian Occupation
Expropriation of land, illegal occupation of land, seizure and destruction of property
Indian authorities have escalated efforts to structurally disempower Muslims in Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK) pursuant to ongoing efforts to promote forced demographic change and the cultural erasure of Muslims. Indian occupation authorities have forced out-migration of local Muslims, immigration of non-local Hindus, and expanded Indian Hindu settler colonialism. This
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