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A grassroots approach for integration: Morus Association

Tuesday, 02 October 2018

Morus is a voluntary association that focuses on migrant inclusion. The association supports a small number of refugees in the Valli di Lanzo region, northwest of Turin. The association works with those individuals who have been granted refugee status in Italy in order to help them find housing and employment in the region’s rural towns and villages. To this end,...

Habitat International Coalition and the Habitat Conferences 1976-2016

Monday, 01 October 2018

Source: HIC HIC launches publication on World Habitat Day commemorating more than 40 years of struggle for Social Justice "Habitat International Coalition and the Habitat Conferences 1976-2016" brings together the memory of 40 years of local and global struggles and HIC’s experiences throughout the process of the Habitat Conferences On the day designated by the...

Madrid - World Council 2018

Friday, 21 September 2018

Source: UCLG The World Council will take place from 5 to 8 November in Madrid, back-to-back with the second edition of the World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace, at the kind invitation of Mayor Manuela Carmena. PROGRAMME: The key institutional day for UCLG will be 6 November, where both the Executive Bureau and World Council will...

The IOPD conference program is now available!

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Source: IOPD You will find all the information at barcelona2018.oidp.net The provisional IOPD conference program is now available at its official website. There you can find all the information about the sessions and speakers who will participate in it. In total, about 100 people will collaborate in more of 20 roundtables and 30 workshops. The conference program...

Regions lead the localization of Agenda 2030 for the territorialization of the SDGs

Friday, 14 September 2018

Source: Forum of Regions (UCLG) On 17 and 18 September, the conference "Territorializing the development agenda" will take place in the City of Rosario, at the invitation of the Governor of Santa Fe and President of the UCLG Forum of Regions, Miguel Lifschitz. This meeting between different levels of governance, co-organized by the Province of Santa Fe and UCLG's...

The Annual Report of our Committee is now available (2017)

Wednesday, 12 September 2018

We are pleased to inform you the Annual Report of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of UCLG is fully available online. The Report includes all the activities carried out by the Committee throughout 2017. Following the adoption of the New Urban Agenda and UCLG’s mobilization towards the Right to Housing or around the global...

Municipal support to civil society for the social inclusion of migrants in Tangier

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Tangier is located at the north-western tip of Morocco and is a gateway between the African and European continents. Due to its geographic position, the city of Tangier has a long history of migration and experiences contrasting immigration profiles. Whereas migrants arriving from the global North are widely accepted and welcomed, lower-income migrants from sub-...

The call for candidacies for the Presidency of the IOPD next 2019 is now open

Monday, 03 September 2018

Source: IODP - International Observatory on Participatory Democracy Until the 12th November, local governments which are members of the IOPD can submit their application to be appointed the President of the IOPD next 2019. The city which is chosen for the presidency of our network will also host the 19th Conference of the IOPD. Anyone interested shall send their...

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