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Tools and Procedures

HIC puts at the service of its Members and Allies a series of tools and initiatives to denounce violations of Habitat Rights and promote the Coalition’s mission as well as tools and initiatives promoted by HIC members.

This updated section that includes links to the different websites where the content is hosted.

Violations Database (VDB)

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An interactive and participatory website feature for documenting and reviewing the world’s most-common housing and land rights violations. The VDB offers a simplified method for managing data about violations arising from actual cases.

Learn More at HLRN website

Communication Campaigns

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The Coalition launches communication campaigns, declaration and manifestoes to defend Habitat Rights and to implement HIC’s Mission. This is the case of the World Habitat Day or the Human Rights Day among other cases.

Contact us to join these initiatives or suggest new ones.

Human Rights Habitat Observatory (HRHO)

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HIC HRHO is a new collective initiative established by HIC, its Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) and Members to pose solutions and influence national and international debates and efforts to implement, monitor and evaluate the new global agendas.

Contact gs@hic-net.org for more information.

Violation Impact Assessments (VIA)

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The VIA reflects the lessons learnt from innumerable eviction and displacement cases over decades. Determining the true costs and other impacts incurred in the context. The Tool has been found to be versatile and applicable also to other types of violations of the human right to adequate housing and land.

Visit HIC HLRN VIA to find a methodology and a summary of cases

Urgent Action Appeal (UAA)

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An Urgent Action Appeal consists in supporting the case of a human rights’ violation by sending protest letters to the duty holders and all relevant authorities, so as to put pressure on them and make them repair the damage they caused, and ultimately change their policies.

Visit HIC HLRN UAA to find a methodology to write an UAA by yourself.

Solidarity Campaigns (SC)

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The Coalition support petitions from Members and Allies to denounce flagrant cases of habitat rights violations and launch solidarity campaigns. Through this solidarity campaigns the Coalition fight against violations of all rights related to habitat.

 

Submit your case to gs@hic-net.org

Global Platform for the Right to the City -GPR2C

The GPR2C brings together social movements and organizations, academics, international networks, human rights defenders, NGOs, local governments and others to collaborate towards the emergence of new emancipatory utopias and social bonds in our societies.

Learn More at the GPR2C website

The
CoHabitat
Network

The CoHabitat Network is a network of community-led housing organizations and allies, who work together to secure housing through collective, non-speculative, people-led solutions.

 

For more info visit the CoHabitat Network website

World
Habitat
Awards

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The World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world. Organized by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat.

World Habitat Awards info

Transformative
Cities Awards

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Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.

Transformative Cities Website

Transformative Cities
Atlas of Utopias

The Atlas of Utopias is a global gallery of inspiring community-led transformation in water, energy, food systems and housing. The Atlas gathers responds to the Transformative Cities initiative, which seeks to learn from cities and collectives working on solutions to ensure access to water, food, energy and housing.

Visit www.transformativecities.org/atlas-of-utopias

Habitat
Worldmap

Created by Habitat et Participation (Belgium), currently proposes an action-research work on the legal and financial mechanisms that allow the development of collaborative housing as a housing model that can resist the financialization of housing.

World Habitat Map

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