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Welcome to the
Solidarity Network |
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Arising
through the Habitat International Coalition and Housing and
Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) coordination efforts, the
idea of a Solidarity Network among community organizations
of the Kurdish, Palestinian and Tibetan peoples was realized
at the 1996 Habitat II conference in Istanbul. At Habitat II
+ 5, in June 2001, the three peoples’ member organizations
reaffirmed their common cause and will to work together.
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The Solidarity Network members meeting in September 2001, in
Dharamsala, India, set out a common purpose to seek that
“the State occupying them correct its behavior to be
consistent with human rights standards.” They determined
their goal as “implementing human rights law and monitoring
their implementation”; and their objectives as: “to minimize
the suffering under occupation” and “to urge States (both
occupiers and others) to implement these peoples’ full human
rights.” |
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The SolidNet partners set out to work in three strategic
stages: (1) sharing information on the respective cases; (2)
developing and publishing a comparative analysis of Peoples
under Occupation/Alien Domination, from a common human
rights perspective; and (3) engaging in joint, complementary
action together, as well as with other peoples enduring
similar forms of deprivation. |
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Kurds
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Palestinians
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Tibetans
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Western Sahara
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History, facts & figures |
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Population transfer |
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confiscation |
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Destruction of property and habitat, and other State
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Analogous cases |
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