Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism
On 29 November 2022, our Member Al-Haq launched its inaugural coalition report titled: ‘Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism’. Together leading Palestinian civil society organisations, Al-Haq Law in the [...]
Declaration Voices from the ground – consultation Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
This Declaration is the result of the global popular consultation led by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) in 2022 on the grassroots impacts of COVID-19, conflicts, and [...]
In Pursuit of Climate Justice
Latest report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) : In Pursuit of Climate Justice This latest report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) takes a hard look at violations of adequate housing [...]
Discrimination in the context of Housing – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Report to the 76th session of United Nations General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal. The report draws attention to the fact that [...]
The HIC Annual Report 2020 is out!
This Annual Report gathers all the work from HIC Members and Allies, actively involved the defense of habitat rights in all continents: at the local, regional and global level. [...]
New HLRN report: Conflict, Occupation and War amid Global Cease-fire
HLRN has produced a new publication on the occasion of World Human Rights Habitat Day 2021 and the ensuing month of related activities. The study Conflict, Occupation and War disaggregates data from [...]
Facing Dispossession at Innezdale Farm
Assessing the Impacts of Women's Dispossession from Land and Home This document is a glimpse of what is at stake for many Zimbabweans post-land reform with a view to the [...]
Housing discrimination and spatial segregation – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
The report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, draws attention to the fact that discrimination in housing continues to be one of [...]
The Right to the City. Guide for its understanding and materialization – available in Spanish
The guide and the text are only available in Spanish Esta guía tiene una finalidad pedagógica: sensibilizar, socializar y promover aprendizajes básicos en relación con la noción, pilares, componentes, fundamentación [...]
The HIC Habitat Voices Manifesto
The Habitat Voices Manifesto brings together the voices of civil society organisations worldwide – HIC Members active as social movements, grassroots organizations, NGOs, academia and more – those who have [...]
Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat: Learning from HIC-AL School of grassroots urbanism
Authors Julia Wesely University College London, UK Corresponding author: julia.wesely@ucl.ac.uk Adriana Allen University College London and Habitat International Coalition, UK Lorena Zárate Global Platform for the Right to the City, [...]
HIC Action Research: Lessons of Civil Society Movement Strategies for Influencing Policy Towards Adherence to Human Rights and the Right to the City’
The HIC General Secretariat Action Research (AR) entitled ‘A Framework for Understanding The Nature, Efficacy & Lessons of Civil Society Movement Strategies for Influencing Policy Towards Adherence to Human Rights [...]