Solidarity with Barcelona’s Break with Apartheid Israel
Since Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau responded to citizen demands by committing to suspend twinning relations with Tel Aviv and Israel until Israeli authorities end apartheid against the Palestinian people, she [...]
Questions to assess in Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan after earthquakes regarding the fullfilment of the human rights related to habitat
Turkey's most powerful earthquake in nearly 100 years struck near the city of Gaziantep in the early hours of 6 February. The effects killed thousands of people across southern Turkey, [...]
Launch of the election process for the 2023-2027 Latin American representation on the HIC Board
The current mandate of Ms. Ana Pastor, Latin America and Caribbean Representative, and Mr. Ramiro Garcia, her Alternate to the HIC Board has expired. The next four-year term will run [...]
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 [...]