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	*[http://www.landpedia.org/landdoc/Analytical_materials/Starving_Who_Feeds_Us.pdf Serene Assir, Egypt: Starving thosEgypt: who feed us](Jan-08)		*[http://www.landpedia.org/landdoc/Analytical_materials/Starving_Who_Feeds_Us.pdf Serene Assir, Egypt: Starving thosEgypt: who feed us](Jan-08)
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	*[http://www.landpedia.org/landdoc/Analytical_materials/LCHR_Water_Report.pdf Land Center for Human Rights, Egypt: Water Problems in thEgypt: Egyptian Countryside: Between corruption and lack of planning (CasEgypt: studies of two Egyptian villages)](Dec-05)		*[http://www.landpedia.org/landdoc/Analytical_materials/LCHR_Water_Report.pdf Land Center for Human Rights, Egypt: Water Problems in thEgypt: Egyptian Countryside: Between corruption and lack of planning (CasEgypt: studies of two Egyptian villages)](Dec-05)

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The documents hosted and linked here are a selection of otherwise published and unpublished analyses and interpretations of land issues with an emphasis on the human rights dimensions of land and land administration. Most analyses address current policies and proposals for alternatives and pose solutions to related problems.

• Bahrain: Al-Khalifa Family Land Grab (images) (2011)

• Bahraini Youth Society for Human Rights, Bahrain: Bahraini Youth Protest Ruling Family’s Confiscation of National Coastline (Jun-07)

• Omar F. Ahmed,Bahrain: Broken Promises: Human Rights, Constitutionalism and Socio-economic Exclusion in Bahrain (2010)

• Various sources, BahrainCyprus: Legal Developments in affecting property restitution of Cyprus refugees and IDPs (January–April 2010)

• Rhodri C. Williams, Cyprus: Note on ECtHR Decision in Demopoulos v. Turkey(Oct-10)

• Veronica Gaertner, Cyprus: ECJ: AG Opinion in “Apostolides”(Dec-08)

• Lellos P. Demetriades, Cyprus: The Case of Loizidou v. Turkey(Jul-01)

• Sara Sabry, Egypt: Poverty lines in Greater Cairo: Underestimating and misrepresenting poverty(May-09)

• Joseph Schechla, Egypt: "Disappearing Peasants, Disappearing Land," Right to Food and Nutrition Watch(2009)

• Lowell N. Lewis, Egypt: Egypt's FuturEgypt: Depends on AgriculturEgypt: and Wisdom, Disappearing Land," Right to Food and Nutrition Watch(2009)

• Serene Assir, Egypt: Starving thosEgypt: who feed us(Jan-08)

*OMCT , Egypt: Agrarian policy, human rights and violencEgypt: in Egypt(Jun-06)

• Land Center for Human Rights, Egypt: Water Problems in thEgypt: Egyptian Countryside: Between corruption and lack of planning (CasEgypt: studies of two Egyptian villages)(Dec-05)

• Karem Saber, Egypt: Agrarian policy, legislation and violations of Human Rights in Egypt(2006)

• IFAD, Egypt: Arab Republic of Egypt Country ProgrammEgypt: Evaluation(Jun-05)

• Mahmoud Yousry and Tarek A. Aboul Atta, Egypt: ThEgypt: challengEgypt: of urban growth in Cairo(Jun-05)

• David Sims, Egypt: Residential Informality in Greater Cairo: Typologies, Representative Areas, Quantification, Valuation and Causal Factors(2000)

• Y. Gluckstein, Egypt: The Present Agrarian Crisis in Egypt(1935)

• Peter Van der Auweraert, Iraq: Property Restitution in Iraq(Sep-07)

• Dina Abu Samra, Iraq: Property and land(Jul-06)

• HIC-HLRN, Iraq: Restoring Values: Institutional Challenges to Providing Restitution and Compensation for Iraqi Housing and Land Rights Victims(Aug-05)

• Human Rights Watch, Iraq: Reverse Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq(Aug-04)

• Global IDP Database, Iraq: Eviction of Kurds but also of Turkmen and Assyrians from the Kirkuk area (1997–2002)(2003)

• Jordan: Jordan Property Rights(2009)

• JorAmman Center for Human Rights Studies, Jordan: The Jordanian Landlords and Tenants Law The Right to Adequate Housing(5/1/2008)

• Nizar and Rana Saghieh, Lebanon: Legal Assessment of Housing, Land and Property Ownership, Rights, Transfers, and Property Law related to Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon(Oct-08)

• Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mauritania: National Adaptation Program of Action for Climate Change(Nov-04)

• Karl P. Kirsch Jung and Lars Soeftestad, Mauritania: Regulating the commons in Mauritania: Local agreements as a tool for natural resource management(Jun-03)

• Hans-Werner Wabnitz, Mauritania: The Code Pastoral of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Return to the Sources: Revival of Traditional Nomads' Rights to Common Property Resources(Mar-10)

• Stephen Lendman, Palestine/Israel: Israeli Theft of Palestinian Property(Jan-10)

• HIC-HLRN, Palestine/Israel: The Goldberg Opportunity: A Chance for Human Rights-based Statecraft in Israel(2010)

• Haim Sandberg, Palestine/Israel: Land Expropriations of Private Arab Land in Israel - An Empirical Analysis of the Regular Course of Business(Jul-09)

• HIC-HLRN, Palestine/Israel: Targeting Homes, Shelters and Shelter Seekers during Operation Cast Lead in the Context of Israeli Military Practice,” HIC-HLRN Submission to the UN Fact-finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict(Jul-09)

• Salman Abu Sitta, Palestine/Israel: Dividing War Spoils: Israel’s Seizure, Confiscation and Sale of Palestinian Property(2009)

• Sari Hanafi, Palestine/Israel: Spacio-cide: colonial politics, invisibility and rezoning in Palestinian territory(2009)

• 20_10_2008.pdf World Bank, Palestine/Israel: The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank(Oct-08)

• Alon Tal, Palestine/Israel: Enduring Technological Optimism: Zionism’s Environmental Ethic and Its Influence on Israel’s Environmental History(Apr-08)

• Eliezer Goldberg and others, Palestine/Israel: Goldberg Commission's Recommendations(2008)

• Akiva Eldar, Palestine/Israel: IDF petitions over state's Ottoman land law in West Bank(2008)

• Palestine/Israel: JNF factsheet(7/1/2007)

• PARC et al.,Palestine/Israel: The Palestinian Agriculture Sector through 40 Years of Occupation(Jun-07)

• Joseph Schechla,Palestine/Israel: The State of Israel’s Human Rights Obligations before the UN Treaty-monitoring Bodies, 1998–2007(May-07)

• Nasser Abufarha, Palestine/Israel: Land Ownership in Palestine/Israel(Jan-07)

• this_land_is_mine.pdf Scott Weiner, Palestine/Israel: This Land is Mine: Two Views on Israel’s House Demolition Policy in the Negev Desert(2007)

• Settlement Watch, Peace Now, Palestine/Israel: Two Views on Israel’s House Demolition Policy in the Negev Desert(Oct-06)

• Land Research Center, Palestine/Israel: Geopolitical Situations in Hebron Governorate, Palestine(Jul-06)

• Shlomo Swirski and Yael Hasson, Palestine/Israel: Geopolitical Situations in Hebron GovernoPalestine/Israel: Invisible Citizens: Israeli Government Policy toward the Negev Bedouin(Feb-06)

• Alexadre (Sandy) Kedar and Oren Yiftachel, Palestine/Israel: Land Regime and Social Relations in Israel(2006)

• Palestine Land Society, Palestine/Israel: Financing Racism and Apartheid: Jewish National Fund's Violation of International and Domestic Law(Aug-05)

• Joseph Schechla, Palestine/Israel: “Jewish Nationality,” “National Institutions” and Institutionalized Dispossession(Jun-05)

• Jamil Dakwar, Adalah– The Legal Center for the Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Palestine/Israel: The Palestinians in Israel: Between the Hammer of Land Privatization and the Anvil of Land Nationalization(May-05)

• Dan Leon, Palestine/Israel: The Jewish National Fund: How the Land Was "Redeemed"(2005)

• Uri Davis, Palestine/Israel: Apartheid Israel and the Jewish National Fund of Canada: The Story of ‘Imwas Yalu, Beit Nuba and Canada ark(Sep-04)

• HIC-HLRN and Al Mezan, Palestine/Israel: Report on Israel`s Violations of Palestinian Civilians` Right to Adequate Housing & Land in OPT(Mar-04)

• Usama Halabi, Palestine/Israel: Israel's Land Laws as a Legal Practical Tool(2004)

• Oren Yiftachel, Palestine/Israel: Bedouin Arabs and the Israeli Settler State: Land Policies and Indigenous Resistance(2003)

• B'Tselem, Palestine/Israel: Land Grab: Israel's Settlement PoliCyprus: in the West Bank(May-02)

• ARIJ, Palestine/Israel: An Assessment of the Israeli Practices on the Palestinian Agricultural Sector(29 September 2000–31 December 2001)

• Dov Gavish and Ruth Kark, Palestine/Israel: The cadastral mapping of Palestine, 1858-1928(Mar-93)

• UN Secretary General, Palestine/Israel: Israeli Land and Water Policies in the Occupied Palestinian and Arab Territories, A/46/263(Jun-91)

• Kenneth W. Stein, Palestine/Israel: The Jewish National Fund: Land Purchase Methods and Priorities, 1924–1939(Apr-84)

• Ali Kadri, Palestine/Israel: The property rights of the Palestinian small farmer and the right to development in the Palestinian occupied territory(1996)

• E.C. Willatts, Palestine/Israel: Some Geographical Factors in the Palestine Problem(1946)

• Joyce Mulama, "Qatar: Development-Kenya: Fears over New Land Deal"(Jul-09)

• International Crisis Group, Sudan: Sudan’s Southern Kordofan Problem: The Next Darfur?(Oct-08)

• Jalal Hasim, Sudan: Nubian Dams, Demographic Engineering and the Deteriorating Situation in Northern Sudan(Sep-08)

• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Sudan: Sudan: Rich farms, conflict and climate change(May-08)

• Sara Pantuliano, Sudan: The land question: Sudan’s peace nemesis(Dec-07)

• Guma Kunda Komey, Sudan: The denied land rights of the indigenous peoples and their endangered livelihood and survival: the case of the Nuba of the Sudan(Sep-07)

• Jasom Matus, Sudan: The future of food security in the Three Areas of Sudan(Jun-06)

• Douglas H. Johnson, Sudan: Food Aid, Land Tenure and the Survival of the Subsistence Economy(Jun-01)

• Mohamed Suliman, Sudan: Resource Access: A Major Cause of Armed Conflict in the Sudan. The Case of the Nuba Mountains(May-98)

• HIC-HLRN, Syria: Systematic Housing and Land Rights Violations against Syrian Kurds(Mar-11)

• Zara Lababedi, Syria: The Urban Development of Damascus: A study of its past, present and future(2008)

• HIC-HLRN, Turkey: Savas ve Zorla Koy Bosaltmalarin Turkiye’deki Kentlesmeye Etkisi: Konut Haklari Ihlalleri(Mar-96)

• HIC-HLRN, Turkey: The Impact of War and Forced Evictions on Urbanisation in Turkey: Violations of Housing Rights(Mar-96)

• HIC-HLRN, Yemen: The Human Right to Adequate Housing in the case of al-Akhdam(Aug-07)

• Huda Seif, Yemen: Parallel report to CERD(Aug-07)

• Yemeni American League, Yemen: Yemeni Issues: Water, Pasture, Fire(Jun-07)

• Rhodri C. Williams, Thematic & Comparative: Housing, land and property issues central to new Durable Solutions Framework for IDPs(Mar-10)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Charting the Need for System Change amid Climate Change: Housing and Land Rights Violations in 2008–10(2010)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Discrimination Everywhere: Housing and Land Rights Violations in 2007–09(Oct-09)

• Olivier De Schutter, Thematic & Comparative: Large-scale land acquisitions and leases: A set of core principles and measures to address the human rights challenge(Jun-09)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Land Forum, Cairo(May-09)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: The Human Rights Dimensions of Land in the Middle East and North Africa(May-09)

• Joseph Schechla,Thematic & Comparative: "Addressing Marginality: Some Theoretical and Practical Contributions from Social Science and Law"(2009)

• L. Cotula, S. Vermeulen, R. Leonard and J. Keeley, Thematic & Comparative: Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa(2009)

• Oli Brown and Alec Crawford, Thematic & Comparative: Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East(2009)

• Shepard Daniel with Anuradha Mittal, Thematic & Comparative: The Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor(2009)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: The Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor(Oct-08)

• Ibrahim Saif, Thematic & Comparative: The Food Price Crisis in the Arab Countries: Short Term Responses to a Lasting Challenge(Oct-08)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Housing and Land Rights Crisis,2007: Violations Escalating around the World(Oct-07)

• [1.pdf Expert Group, Thematic & Comparative: East London Guiding Principles on Islamic Land Tools](May-07)

• Hic-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: “Human Rights and Struggles over Habitat, land and Environment,” Human Dignity and Human Rights Caucus at World Social Forum VII, Nairobi, 20–25 January 2007(Jan-07)

• Dante A. Caponera, Thematic & Comparative: Ownership and transfer of water and land in Islam(Jan-07)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Closing the Human Rights Gap in MDG 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability(2007)

• Lorenzo Cotula, Thematic & Comparative: Gender and Law - Women's Rights in Agriculture(2007)

• HIC-HLRN and OHCHR, Thematic & Comparative: The Alexandria Consultation Women’s Right to Adequate Housing and Land Middle East/North Africa(Jul-06)

• Camilla Toulmin, Thematic & Comparative: Securing land rights for the poor in Africa — Key to growth, peace and sustainable development(Jul-06)

• Siraj Sait and Hillary Lim, Thematic & Comparative: Law and Islam: Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World(2006)

• Chemonics, Thematic & Comparative: Report: Symposium on Land Registration in the Arab World - “Challenges and Ambitions”(Sep-05)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Glossary of Arabic, Ottoman and Islamic Terms(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Credit and Microfinance(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Human Rights and Land(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Inheritance Laws and Systems(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Land Tenures and Reform(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Land Theories and Their Application(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Islamic Law, Land and Methodologies(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Muslim Women and Property(2005)

• UN Habitat, Thematic & Comparative: Waqf (Endowment) and Islamic Philanthropy(2005)

• HIC-HLRN, Thematic & Comparative: Anatomies of a Social Movement: Social Production of Habitat in the Middle East/North Africa (Part I)(2004)

• Center for International Environmental Law, Thematic & Comparative: Community-Based Property Rights: A Concept Note(Sep-02)

• UN Secretary General, Thematic & Comparative: Integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources (Chapter 10 of Agenda 21)(Jan-97)