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Montevideo reaffirms its commitment to turn the Right to the City into a guiding principle of its urban agenda
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
From 16 to 18 April 2018, and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the city of Montevideo organized the seminar “Diálogos Urbanos: Debates y Reflexiones para construir la agenda urbana de la ciudad” (Urban Dialogues: Dialogues and Reflections to build the city’s urban agenda). Our Committee attended this event in...
The Right to the City: What prospects fifty years after Henri Lefebvre’s eponymous book?
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
From April 4 to 5 the Committee organized – in co-partnership with several local organizations and the laboratory “la Ville en Commun” – the conference “Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City”. On this occasion, researchers, former students of Henri Lefebvre, urban planners, architects, civil society representatives and local authorities discussed around the legacy and...
The report “Competitive Metropolises and Prospects for Spatial Justice” is already available online
Wednesday, 04 April 2018
The report "Competitive Metropolises and the Prospects for Spatial Justice: the role of metropolitan areas within the global agenda of local and regional governments for the 21st century” provides a global overview of the various realities interposed by the evolution of worldwide metropolitan areas. It aims at fostering the emergence of alternatives to metropolitan...
Plaine Commune and the Right to Housing: Guaranteeing “a rooftop for everyone” in a working-class metropolitan territory
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Located in the north of Paris, Plaine Commune is one of the twelve territories conforming the “Grand Paris” metropolitan area. Plaine Commune gathers nine cities, home to around 435,000 inhabitants. Young and dynamic, the region counts with a strong potential for economic development, yet it also ranges as one of the poorest territories in France. At the current...
The call for the 2018 IOPD Award is now open!
Monday, 26 March 2018
Source: International Observatory on Participatory Democracy The Distinction "Best Practice in Citizen Participation" is an award given annually by the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) to recognize public policies implemented by local governments. How can I submit a proposal? 1st Become member of IOPD If you want to be part of our network...
The Committee promotes a study that assesses the potential of participatory democracy to strengthen social inclusion at the local level
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
In order to keep feeding the debates on how to put citizen participation at the service of social inclusion, the Committee has edited and printed the study "Social Inclusion and Participatory Democracy: From the conceptual discussion to local action", carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Autonomous...
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Andhra Pradesh)
Monday, 19 March 2018
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is an Indian job-guarantee scheme, enacted by legislation on 25 August 2005. The scheme provides a legal guarantee for 100 days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work- related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage of Rs....
Assassination of Marielle Franco, Municipal Councillor of Rio de Janeiro: Statement by the Co-Chair of the CSIPDHR Committee of UCLG, Patrick Braouezec
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Source photo : Mídia Ninja "Marielle Franco, 38, was one of the 32 black women elected councillors in Brazil capital cities. Sociologist, born in the favela of Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, in recent months she had been particularly committed to denouncing the growing violence of military operations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, particularly since the political crisis...

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