Women’s Spaces: Implementing Equal Rights to Land, Housing and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa with Rooftops Canada – Abri International
The successful start of the 2021-26 Women’s Spaces: Implementing Equal Rights to Land, Housing and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) project took place early in 2022 in partnership with HIC [...]
The 37th edition of the World Habitat Awards are now open for entry until 12th March 2023
Are you doing something remarkable related to housing? World Habitat is looking for practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing challenges. The awards welcome entries from all over the [...]
HIC’s parallel event at this year’ s Commission on the Status of Women CSW67
The in-person event will take place on Wednesday, 8th March 2023 from 4:30PM EST at the Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN) 11th Floor. Please see the attached flyer [...]
Urgent action appeal – Cameroon: Hundreds of families evicted, homeless in Douala
Source : HLRN Urgent actions database Read the full details of the case here You can support the case here The year 2023 is off to a difficult start for the [...]
The Peruvian National Human Rights Coordinator presents the report: “50 days of repression in Peru. Human Rights violations during mobilisations”.
The National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH) presented its report "50 days of repression in Peru. Violations of Human Rights during mobilisations" (available in Spanish), which denounces the extremely high levels [...]
New Mazingira Newsletter released
This last newsletter issued by Mazingira Institute, a longstanding HIC Member in Kenya, includes info of the new Women's Spaces Project: Nairobi City County (NCC), the NCC food strategy and [...]
Winners of the World Habitat Awards 2022
World Habitat awards, organised by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat, recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world. More than [...]
The HIC journey 2022
Dear HIC community, friends, and allies, This year we have celebrated our return to face-to-face interactions since the beginning of the pandemic. It has been a pleasure and an honour [...]
HIC appoints three new and unique Wisdom Keepers : Ifeyinwa Ofong, Lorena Zarate and Shivani Chaudhry
The title of HIC Wisdom Keeper is bestowed by HIC Board on HIC members to signify that the recipient is a keeper of valuable knowledge, resulting from recipient’s commitment to [...]
Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award 2022 winners announced: Bengaluru (India), Hyderabad (India), Kirtipur (Nepal) and Guazapa (El Salvador)
The winners of the 2022 Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award were announced at an international online event last Friday, 9 December. The 2021-2022 Transformative Cities People’s Award went to four initiatives for their work in the [...]
Towards a HIC Africa regional strategic plan 2022
HIC Members in Africa have decided to build a common strategic plan for the region to fight for the recognition, defense and full implementation of human rights related to habitat. [...]
Who will win the Transformative Cities Award?
People around the world are taking collective action to solve global problems, but how would you know? Important initiatives changing the status quo, leaving corporate interest behind and creating better [...]