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HIC is the Global Coalition for the #rights to habitat and #socialjustice that promotes #humanrights related to #housing and #land in both rural and urban areas

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🎓 Proud to share that our dear Adriana Allen has received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP)
A powerful tribute to her lifelong work on community-led housing, feminist urbanism, & urban & social justice across the globe
A deeply deserved honour for her endless commitment💜

26.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌍 We’re Hiring: Advocacy Officer

HIC is looking for a passionate and committed Advocacy Officer to lead our cross-regional advocacy efforts defending habitat-related human rights
🔹Deadline: 30.09 2025 (midnight GMT)
🔹Location: Remote (Work from anywhere!)
📄 Full details hic-net.org/wp-content/u...

25.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🏠 Canada needs 4.4M affordable homes — and fast.

Join this session Sept 25 @ 12PM ET for a #CityTalk webinar on how the feds can build at scale with #BuildCanadaHomes.

Speakers:
🔹 Carolyn Whitzman
🔹 Graeme Hussey
🔹 Tyler Meredith
#HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing

25.09.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We heard powerful calls from Saleh Hijazi, Lubnah Shomali & Adel Bseiso on:
⚖️ Remedy as a human right
💥 Targeting enablers of apartheid
🧠 Reclaiming the narrative
✊ Strengthening BDS & grassroots action

🌍 Next steps & resource hub coming soon.

#EndTheGenocide #RightToHabitat #BDS

10.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A powerful journey comes to an end.

Thank you to everyone who joined the HIC Teach-In Series:
📚 "Understanding Palestine: What’s Habitat Got to Do with It?"

Session 4 focused on solidarity & action, and the urgency to stop genocide and dismantle settler colonialism.
#HICTeachIns #Palestine

10.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📸 Incredible moments from the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka! 🌍✊ Our Coalition is raising our voices in solidarity with #Palestine, calling for an #EndTheGenocide and oppression.

Let’s stay united in our fight for justice. The report and next steps are coming soon!

09.09.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Int’l law forbids an occupier from transferring its population or altering laws in occupied territory
Yet Palestinians displaced in 1967 were denied return, while Jews worldwide are granted immigration, citizenship & land ownership, even in occupied areas"
🗣️Tasneem Janazra - #Palestine ’s LRC org

27.08.2025 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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✨ انضم إلى جلسة Teach-In اليوم: كيف يتم تطبيق الفصل العنصري في الإسكان والأراضي والمياه في فلسطين

🗓️ الأربعاء 27 أغسطس | 16:00–18:00 بتوقيت جنوب إفريقيا
🌍 تحقق من التوقيت المحلي: bit.ly/3J1TisE
🔗 التسجيل: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...

🎙️ متحدثون من منظمتي LRC و PHG الفلسطينيتين – لا تفوت الفرصة!

27.08.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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✨ Join today’s Teach-In session: How housing, land & water apartheid is operationalised in Palestine

🗓️ Wed 27 Aug | 16:00–18:00 SAST
🌍 Check local time: bit.ly/3J1TisE
🔗 Register: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...

🎙️ Speakers from Palestine orgs LRC & PHG – don’t miss it!

27.08.2025 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We thank all speakers and participants for attending Session 2 of the Teach-in Series on Palestine and Habitat.

📢 Join us again on August 27 at 16:00 SAST for our follow-up session on how housing and land policies can violate international norms!

13.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In Session 2 of the Palestine Teach-ins:

Paul Hendler explained the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism.

Joseph Schechla of HLRN spoke about imperial systems and settler colonialism.

Lubnah Shomali, BADIL, ended with a brief reflection of Palestine's dispossession.

13.08.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We thank all speakers and participants for attending Session 1 of the Teach-in Series on Palestine and Habitat.

📢 Join us on August 13 at 16:00 SAST for a thought-provoking discussion on Occupation, Apartheid, and Resistance in Palestine.

#Palestine #LandRights #HIC

30.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enrique Ortiz, Difusión HIC-AL Habitat International Coalition, discussed the importance of acting in solidarity with Palestine.

Heba Al-Wahoush, Land Research Centre, gave context on the occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

#Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

30.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Leilani Farha, Director of The Shift & Former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, and Ashraf Abu Hayyeh of Al Haq Foundation, spoke about the importance of housing and land in Palestine for Session 1 of the Teach-in Series.

#Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

30.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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⌛️Coming soon next week:
Our Teach‑In Series begins 30 July!

A teach-in is a forum for open discussion and debate aimed at encouraging critical thinking and collective action.

Dive into housing & land as tools of domination
📢 Register now: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...

25.07.2025 16:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌱 Conoce 18 iniciativas comunitarias que enfrentan la #CrisisClimática desde territorios urbanos y rurales.
📢 Difúndelas y acompaña a @HIC_AL rumbo a la #COP30 para que estos esfuerzos sean reconocidos.
#MitigaciónSocialDelCambioClimático #IPCC #JusticiaClimática

22.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Just 10 days left! Join the 4-part #TeachIn series on Palestine & Habitat 🏠🌍

🗓️ Dates:
30 July | 13 Aug | 27 Aug | 10 Sept
🕓 16:00–18:00 SAST
🔗 Register: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...
Let’s reflect, learn & act in solidarity.
#Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC

21.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HIC joined Reclaim the City and grassroots groups in Cape Town to explore commoning and how we can reclaim urban spaces for people and communities. 💥🌱

#RightToTheCity #Commoning #UrbanJustice #CapeTown #HIC

03.07.2025 10:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Join the 2nd session of Dialogues in Coproduction!
📆Tomorrow 14:30 CEST
Professional Alliances for Co-Production:
🔗 Register: framaforms.org/registration...
🗣️ With experts from DPU , @iclei.org , @unhabitatyouth.bsky.social & more
🌍 EN/FR interpretation

02.07.2025 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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4/4 Las personas asistentes celebraron los 25 años de la Ley 341 sobre Vivienda Colectiva en Buenos Aires y renovaron el compromiso de fortalecer redes y alianzas para defender el derecho a una vivienda justa y solidaria.
¡La lucha por un hábitat justo sigue !

06.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3/4 Se denunció la eliminación de políticas públicas que afectan la vivienda, la economía social y la seguridad social, poniendo en riesgo cooperativas y proyectos comunitarios. La fuerza colectiva es más necesaria que nunca #ViviendaDigna

06.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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2/4 Lorena Zárate de la @righttothecity.bsky.social destacó el rol de los fideicomisos territoriales como herramienta vital para resistir la presión del mercado inmobiliario y el desplazamiento forzoso
#ResistenciaColectiva

06.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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⤵️1/4 Miembros de HIC Latinoamérica @HIC_AL se reunieron en Buenos Aires para analizar el impacto del cierre de la Política Nacional de Obras Públicas, Tierras y Vivienda en Argentina. Una cita clave para enfrentar juntes el difícil contexto que vive Argentina www.hic-net.org/es/acciones-...

06.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🌍 Yesterday marked #WorldEnvironmentDay — a powerful moment to explore our Climate Justice Co-Learning Space Podcast!
🎧Gain cross-regional insights on climate change, justice, and the urgent actions needed to defend habitat rights.
🔊 soundcloud.com/hic-53024868...
🎙️ #ClimateJustice

06.06.2025 06:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Irene Escorihuela @observadesca.bsky.social opened a powerful session co-organized with HIC and European Members at the International Social Housing Festival in Dublin!
🔎 Focus: Financialisation of housing & local responses—from social movements to cooperatives #ISHF2025

06.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🏘️ Full house at the side event we organized at #ISHF2025 in Dublin! So glad to participate in this key panel on policies against speculation and for the social function of #housing. In collaboration with HIC, IIED and The Shift.

05.06.2025 11:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HIC actively participated at the 2nd UN-Habitat Assembly
Main outcomes:

▶️Strategic Plan 2026-29 adopted
▶️Focus on inclusive, sustainable cities aligned with #Agenda2030
▶️HIC helped draft a declaration “by, for & with the people”

Next one: #WUF13 in Baku, 2026!

05.06.2025 06:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Important conversations are happening now in Dublin at #ISHF25 🏠🌍

Voices from across the global housing movement are coming together to ask a vital question:
How do we reclaim the right to housing for the people?

Stay tuned and join the conversation! Today's programme 👇 @housingeurope.bsky.social

05.06.2025 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us at #ISHF25 on 5th June for

🧭Guiding Europe Home: The Compass for a New Housing Paradigm

Discover the Housing Compass, best practices in Member States & how the EU can support dedicated social and affordable housing providers. 🔗 buff.ly/oSSOOWa

03.06.2025 09:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What an amazing first day at #ISHF25 ! Thanks to the team in Dublin and everyone who joined events.

Today’s set to be even bigger and busier, with a packed lineup of events from the Housing Europe network. Don’t miss out 💬
buff.ly/1VmHXt5

05.06.2025 05:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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