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Cities for Adequate Housing: a call for action to ensure the right to housing
Monday, 06 August 2018
Our constituency lived a historical turning point last 15 and 16 July, when a group of major global cities brought to the UN a firm pledge for the Right to Housing in the form of the Declaration “Cities for Adequate Housing”. This global call to action builds on the #MakeTheShift campaign, launched by the UN Rapporteur on Adequate Housing. Local and regional...
New case studies: Fostering social inclusion of migrants at the local level
Monday, 30 July 2018
From today onwards, our Inclusive Cities Observatory will offer nine new case studies developed in the framework of the project MC2CM – Migration City-to-City in the Mediterranean. These documents reflect on the experience of nine Mediterranean cities carrying out policies aimed at the social inclusion of migrants. As a whole, they showcase the key role played by...
Right to Housing and Right to the City: cities from across the world come together to launch a common message
Monday, 16 July 2018
Last Sunday, 15 July, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights co-organized a special session on the Right to Housing as a preview of the Local and Regional Governments’ Forum held in parallel to the High Level Political Forum (New York, 15-18 July), in partnership with the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and...
Cities for Adequate Housing (UCLG’s Wave of Action on the Right to Housing and HLPF’s focus on SDG 11)
Monday, 02 July 2018
Source: UCLG United Cities and Local Governments considers the Right to Housing as a fundamental pillar of human rights and the Right to the City. Indeed, this was a cornerstone of the advocacy strategy led throughout the debates around the New Urban Agenda (Habitat III). Accordingly, UCLG’s Bogotá Commitment and Action Agenda (October 2016) launched a call to “...
Right to Housing: joining the voices of local governments (Special session 15th July)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Our Committee is co-organizing a special session on the Right to Housing on the occasion of the first Forum of Local and Regional Authorities held in the framework of the HLPF The Right to Housing is a fundamental human right and a growing concern at a global scale. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on the monitoring of SDG 11, and the first...
Training local civil society organizations on international mechanisms for human rights protection (Barcelona)
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Last 22 and 23 May, the Committee co-organized the first edition of a training session on how the work of local human rights defenders and civil society organizations can benefit from international mechanisms for human rights protection. This event was open to more than twenty human rights defense organizations based in the Catalan capital, and was held in...
Global Compact on Migration: What are the next steps for local and regional governments?
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Source: UCLG The process of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), which started in September 2017 through the New York Declaration on Migrants and Refugees in line with the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda and, subsequently, in the New Urban Agenda, is now reaching its end, as the last inter-governmental negotiation will be held in...
2018 edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF)
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
We are pleased to announce you that the 8th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) will take place next 18-21 October in Gwangju (South Korea). The Forum is held under the initiative and support of the Metropolitan Government of Gwangju, as a way to provide a bridge between meaningful experiences from the four corners of the earth on human rights...

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