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Forecasting war and genocide
At the crossroads of human rights and development, as with the passage of time, we often meet and reacquaint ourselves with warning signs that have gone before. It is cumulative memory—whether of lived experience or historical events—that should help us appreciate the lessons to be learnt.
On the occasion of this year’s World Habitat Day (6
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Arab Region States at the High-level Political Forum 2025
This year, the UN’s High-level Political Forum reviewed three Arab states’ performance of the 2030 Agenda sustainable development policy. Iraq, Qatar and Sudan submitted their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) after Jordan and Palestine ultimately declined to submit their previously committed VNRs. Israel also submitted its VNR, but as a state member of the “Western European and Others” group of colonial-legacy
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Remedying Displacement across Arab Lands
The severity of the Arab region’s displacement crisis presents an urgent policy dilemma for Arab states, individually and collectively. Remedy and reparation have long been needed not only to alleviate the consequent suffering and loss, but also to deter such gross violations [AR] in future.
At the time of the 1st Arab Land Conference (2018), the displaced and refugee Arab population
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Displaced Persons Dream of a Safe Way Back to North Syria
Returning Back Home... Displaced People`s Dream Searching for a Safe Way to North Syria
Despite the fall of former President Bashar al-Asad`s regime late last year 2024, hundreds of thousands of displaced people of `Afrin and Ra’s al-`Ayn in north Syria are still unable to return to their homes and property. The real owners of the homes and agricultural lands face
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“Understanding Palestine: What’s habitat got to do with it?” - HIC Teach-ins
A central part in building practical solidarity globally is exploring and mounting all of the actions possible to calling attention to the struggle of Palestinian people and ending the violations of their human rights and the ongoing Israel’s genocide. As such, we feel it is our duty as a coalition working for the realization of habitat rights to contribute these
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HIC Addresses HLPF Review of Israel
Habitat International Coalition Intervention at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on Israel’s VNR
The Habitat International Coalition-Housing and Land Rights Network participated in the High-Level Political Forum on the 2025 Agenda for Sustainable Development, held last week from July 14-23, under the theme "Promoting sustainable, inclusive, science-based, and evidence-based solutions to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that
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Cyprus: Israel’s New Colonial Backyard
Cyprus has been multiply occupied over time, not least today. The long-gone Venetian and Arab traders have been supplanted by Imperial British colonizers, who still operate their massive military platform at Akrotiri, parallel to Türkiye’s occupation of the Island’s northern 47%. Some old enotists still seek occupation by Greece, and not just by its ubiquitous Church. More recently, the most-conspicuous
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Documenting a Path to Nakba Reparations
Before the Zionist Movement could proclaim the State of Israel’s in 1948, terrorizing Zionist militias displaced, denationalized, dispossessed and expelled the majority of Palestine’s population (770–780,000) from, their land, homes, villages and cities. Using institutional structures such as the World Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund, and through layers of Zionist laws such as the Absentee Property Law, Israel
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Sudan: Silent Displacement, Silent Starvation
Famine in Sudan has been developing for many years as a result of the legacy of previous wars, long-term mass displacement, intermittent drought due to climate change, and three years of ongoing war crimes, leading to a complex catastrophe.
In August 2025, the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially announced that 1.14 million people in the Gaza Strip were
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Diwan Al Omran
Diwan Al Omran is pleased to announce its participation in the activities of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) for Urban October and World Habitat Day.
World Habitat Day is an international event celebrated annually by the United Nations on the first Monday of October. It aims to draw attention to the importance of realizing the right
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HIC Solidarity with Palestine: Third October of Genocide
Urban October / World Habitat Day - Reinforcing our global call for solidarity with and reparations for the Indigenous Palestinian People
From solidarity to direct action, from recovery to reparation, this World Habitat Day, HIC reaffirm its stand with the People of Palestine everywhere, denouncing, once again, the ongoing genocide against its People and the decades of colonization, dehumanization, dispossession, occupation,
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From Political Negotiation to Litigious Precision: The Duties of States Made Clear
A Historic Step toward Enshrining the Protection of Communities Affected by Climate Change
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice marked a pivotal moment in the history of international law when it unanimously issued an advisory opinion clarifying states` obligations in addressing the climate crisis. Climate change is no longer merely a moral or political issue; it has become
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The First Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress
As the world watches in horror and anger Israel’s livestream genocide against the Palestinian people, motivated by Zionism in partnership with the West, activists of Jewish faith and background held their first international Anti-Zionism Congress in Vienna, 13–16 June 2025.
The host city of Vienna was symbolic as the place where Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Jewish Zionism, lived and published Der
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From Pain to Power: Women and Their Data Speak for Themselves
Kosovo Informal Settlement (KIS), built incrementally since 1989, is one of the densest urbanisations in Greater Kampala, Uganda, built on low-lying ‘crown’ land and home to 10,085 low-income households with self-built infrastructure. The poorest among them are women-headed households (WHHHs), most with children.
They need everything, from respect and protection, to basic education, income, nutrition and proper drainage. Increasingly, erratic weather
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Occupier’s Law, Kashmiris’ Land
“Kashmir law” refers primarily to the current laws governing the Indian-occupied territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh after Indian legislature, the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and Lok Sabha (Council of the People) enacted the ultra vires Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act on 5 and 6 August 2019. Following a presidential order effectively amending the Indian Constitution’s Articles 35A and 370, the legislation
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Congo, Rwanda: IDPs under Trump-backed October Security Measures
As reported in Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 32, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been unstable since the influx of refugees from the Rwandan Civil War during the 1990s, leading to multiple conflicts over the ensuing decades that have seen over 100 armed groups, some of which have been supported by the government of Rwanda. Some of Rwanda’s Hutu groups responsible for that country’s genocide against Tutsis particularly
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Systemic Transformation Is Now or Never!
For eight days on 6–13 September 2025, the member organizations of the Food Sovereignty International Planning Committee (IPC) collaborated to organize the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka. The Forum’s stated purpose was to foster global solidarity and develop unified, systemic strategies for economic, social, and environmental justice through the lens of food sovereignty. It provided a space for building
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