Tools on Violations
HIC puts at the service of its Members and Allies a series of tools and initiatives to denounce violations of Habitat Rights and promote the Coalition’s mission as well as tools and initiatives promoted by HIC members.
This updated section includes links to the different websites where the content is hosted.
Violations Database (VDB)
Communication Campaigns
Human Rights Habitat Observatory (HRHO)
Violations Database (VDB)
An interactive and participatory website feature for documenting and reviewing the world’s most-common housing and land rights violations. The VDB offers a simplified method for managing data about violations arising from actual cases.
Communication Campaigns
The Coalition launches communication campaigns, declaration and manifestoes to defend Habitat Rights and to implement HIC’s Mission. This is the case of the World Habitat Day or the Human Rights Day among other cases.
Human Rights Habitat Observatory (HRHO)
HIC HRHO is a new collective initiative established by HIC, its Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) and Members to pose solutions and influence national and international debates and efforts to implement, monitor and evaluate the new global agendas.
Violation Impact Assessments (VIA)
Urgent Action Appeal (UAA)
Solidarity Campaigns (SC)
Violation Impact Assessments (VIA)
The VIA reflects the lessons learnt from innumerable eviction and displacement cases over decades. Determining the true costs and other impacts incurred in the context. The Tool has been found to be versatile and applicable also to other types of violations of the human right to adequate housing and land.
Urgent Action Appeal (UAA)
An Urgent Action Appeal consists in supporting the case of a human rights’ violation by sending protest letters to the duty holders and all relevant authorities, so as to put pressure on them and make them repair the damage they caused, and ultimately change their policies.
Solidarity Campaigns (SC)
The Coalition support petitions from Members and Allies to denounce flagrant cases of habitat rights violations and launch solidarity campaigns. Through this solidarity campaigns the Coalition fight against violations of all rights related to habitat.
Global Platform for the Right to the City -GPR2C
The CoHabitat Network
World Habitat Awards
Global Platform for the Right to the City -GPR2C
The GPR2C brings together social movements and organizations, academics, international networks, human rights defenders, NGOs, local governments and others to collaborate towards the emergence of new emancipatory utopias and social bonds in our societies.
The CoHabitat Network
The CoHabitat Network is a network of community-led housing organizations and allies, who work together to secure housing through collective, non-speculative, people-led solutions.
World Habitat Awards
The World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world. Organized by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat.
Transformative Cities Awards
Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopias
Habitat Worldmap
Transformative Cities Awards
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.
Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopias
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.
Habitat Worldmap
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.
Digital Timeline of Capitalism
Digital Timeline of Capitalism
The Timeline of Capitalism was collectively created by members of the Economic Policy Working Group of ESCR-Net, building on the process and substance of the Network’s Common Charter for Collective Struggle. This is the online version of the Timeline of Capitalism which was first created over three days in February 2019, in Chiapas, Mexico, in a workshop aimed to build a shared critique of the dominant economic system, drawing on the human rights framework and centering the analysis of indigenous peoples and social movements, as well as strong feminist members and members working at the intersection of climate and ESCR.