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African perspectives and realities on the Right to the City: Meeting of local governments and civil society during Africities summit (Marrakech)
Monday, 26 November 2018
Last November 22, our Committee and the Global Platform for the Right to the City organized the session “Right to the City and international agendas: African realities and perspectives” on the occasion of Africities: the meeting of African cities organized every three years by UCLG Africa. On this paramount occasion, several representatives from African...
The Community of Practice on #CitiesforHousing meets in Madrid to define a joint strategy
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Signatories of the Declaration of Cities for Adequate Housing met in Madrid last 7 November to discuss the way forward in their joint quest for the right to housing. Barcelona, Mexico City, Montevideo, Plaine Commune, Seoul, Strasbourg, Taipei, and Terrassa took part in the first meeting of the Community of Practice on Housing. Participants agreed to work on...
Members of the Committee advance dialogue on local governments' role in promoting and protecting human rights with OHCHR’s Deputy High Commissioner
Monday, 19 November 2018
Several member-local government of our Committee were able to meet OHCHR’s Deputy High-Commissioner, Kate Gilmore, on the occasion of October’s Delegation to Gwangju’s World Human Rights Cities Forum. Meetings held in South Korea have provided a closer follow-up to the 2017 local government delegation to the Human Rights Council and the OHCHR. In perspective,...
The Committee is organizing a workshop on European local governments for human rights next December 11th
Friday, 16 November 2018
This meeting will take place in parallel to Barcelona's “Cities for Rights” Conference, and should be a good opportunity to relaunch and articulate initiatives on human rights cities networking in Europe. We are pleased to invite you to a workshop on local governments for human rights to be held in Barcelona on December 11th. This meeting will be organized by our...
The Committee pursues its commitment towards human rights defense on the occasion of Madrid’s UCLG World Council
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
The city of Madrid welcomed, from 5 to 8 November, a new edition of the “World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace” as well as the 2018 World Council of UCLG and the Forum of Ibero-American Local Authorities. These meetings brought together more than 5,000 participants, including 400 representatives of local and regional governments from...
The revitalisation of Tunis Medina and integration of internal migrants
Wednesday, 07 November 2018
The city of Tunis faces complex migration dynamics. A destination for international migration in its own right, Tunis also acts as transit hub for migrants making their way onwards into Europe. Internal migration represents another important facet of the city’s migration profile. After independence in 1956, the city of Tunis attracted large numbers of internal...
New alliances aimed at putting human rights at the heart of 2030 agendas: Gwangju hosts a successful 2018 edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
From 18 to 21 October, our co-chair city of Gwangju hosted the 8th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum: a paramount event for the international human rights cities movement co-organized on a yearly basis by our Committee and the Gwangju International Centre. On this year edition, the Forum focused on the issue of diversity and the Right to Peace,...
Promoting “Human Development” through an approach based on participation and human rights: Goicoechea (Costa Rica) and the Tables for Dialogue
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Located in the northern part of Costa Rica, the Cantón of Goicoechea is among one of the various local governments which has joined our Committee this 2018. Goicoechea is a diverse territory, covering urban and rural areas in the periphery of the Great Metropolitan Area of San José, capital city of Costa Rica. In recent years, Goicoechea's local authorities (...

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