28 April 2013 As stipulated in the current Constitution, the HIC General Secretariat presented members with proposed amendments to the Constitutions on 28 January 2013, two months before the General Assembly (GA) meeting in Tunis. The proposed amendments were discussed and presented for approval by the GA during its meeting on 28 March in Tunis. Before beginning the voting process, the GA decided: - to maintain an open voting process from 28 March to 28 April. - that the members...


 Third draft of the Constitution!A decision to amend the HIC Constitution was made during the General Assembly meeting in Naples on 2 September 2012. A committee was formed to produce a first draft of proposed amendments, which will be presented and voted on in the upcoming General Assembly meeting in Tunis on 28 March 2013 (for more background, please see point 6.6 in the minutes). According to the current Constitution, the proposed amendments must be presented to and approved by...

The present report is submitted by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 15/8. In the report, the Special Rapporteur elaborates upon the concept of security of tenure as a component of the right to adequate housing. The backdrop is one of a global tenure insecurity crisis, manifesting itself in many forms and contexts—forced evictions, displacement resulting from development, natural disasters and conflicts and land grabbing—and...

Date: Thursday March 28, 3pm-9pm Location: Hotel El Oumara, 42bis Rue Ali Darghouth, 1001 Tunis République, Phone: 71333122 ; Fax: 71338030The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) will hold its annual General Assembly meeting in Tunis on Thursday March 28 from 3pm-9pm, alongside other HIC meetings, the Land Forum IV, and the World Social Forum that will take place from March 26 to 30, 2013. A decision to amend the HIC Constitution was made during the General Assembly meeting...

Stop the evictions! Housing is a human right! Protest in solidarity with people evicted in Spain Monday, March 18th in front of the Spanish Embassy (22 Avenue Marceau, 75008 Paris) In 2012 alone, 200,000 families in Spain were forcibly evicted from their homes, amounting to 526 expulsions every day. This drastic policy of eviction provoked a wave of suicides among people who had fallen deeply into debt; indeed 34% of all completed suicides in Spain are linked to...