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Seven Months in Kashmir
This report covers the Indian-occupied territory of Kashmir by type of housing and land rights violation over the past seven-month period of reported violations (October 2025–April 2026). This structure makes visible the underlying occupation policy architecture as it systematically deprives the Kashmiri people—in particular, the
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The Development Agenda’s Forced Evictions Gap
Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due
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Azerbaijan
On the occasion of the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), 17–22 September 2026, HIC-HLRN has prepared this new report to summarize the main housing and land rights issues since 2000 in Azerbaijan, the WUF13 host country. Housing and Land Rights Issues in Azerbaijan reviews events
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HIC @ WUF13
The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global event organized every other year by UN Habitat and a host city to provide promotional, networking and learning spaces for UN Habitat stakeholders to convene for a week of diverse events. This biennium, Baku, Azerbaijan was
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HIC Advocates for the Urban Food Insecure
HIC continues to be an advocate for the urban food insecure constituency in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM) for relations with the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). As the principal UN policy-making body for the Rome-based implementation agencies (FAO, IFAD and
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Green Evictions
Informal settlement communities are increasingly displaced in the name of environmental protection, climate adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. From flood mitigation projects in Latin America to conservation zones in Africa and coastal resilience programs in Asia, environmental concerns are weaponized to justify evictions that violate
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Toward Reforming FAO and Resisting Corporate Capture
Over the past decade, the policies of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) have significantly regressed in respecting and promoting the Strategic Partnership with Civil Society Organizationsand social movements adopted in 2013, which focuses on five strategic objectives to eliminate poverty and
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