Analytical Materials:

The documents hosted and linked here are a selection of otherwise published and unpublished analyses and interpretations of land issues with an emphasis on the human rights dimensions of land and land administration.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(Oct-06)