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Call for contributions on local governments’ initiatives to promote and protect human rights (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Contributing to make the voice of local governments heard in regards to human rights has been a key priority for member-local governments of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights since 2005. The continuous efforts at the organization of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF), the close articulation with the...
Local and regional governments call to recognize their key role in migration governance
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Source : UCLG The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration was adopted in Marrakech on 10th December. The Global Compact is the first-ever negotiated global agreement on a common approach to international migration. On the eve of its adoption, on 8th December, local and regional governments worldwide gathered at the 5th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility...
In Vienna, European cities call on the EU to ensure powers and resources for social housing
Monday, 10 December 2018
Source: UCLG On 4-5 December, the City of Vienna hosted the “Housing for All” Conference, a forum to present a European Action Plan to implement concrete policies for the right to housing. The gathering also kicked-off a campaign by European cities to put housing high on the agenda of the upcoming European election. Vienna, Barcelona and Lisbon, as promoters of the...
Strengthening the role of citizen participation in local agendas - IOPD: Annual conference and articulation with the Committee
Wednesday, 05 December 2018
Local democracy has gained weight in the agendas of local government, UCLG and other international organizations throughout 2018. In November, and on the occasion of its eighteenth annual Conference, the assembly of members of the International Observatory of the Participatory Democracy (IOPD) placed itself at the center of this transnational movement by approving...
Paris 2024 (Olympic Games): A French delegation visits Granollers and Barcelona in order to meet the Olympic experience of Barcelona 1992
Monday, 03 December 2018
A delegation from the Seine-Saint-Denis, Plaine Commune and Saint-Denis (France) visited the city of Granollers (Spain) on 26 and 27 November in order to meet with its Mayor, Josep Mayoral, as well as former Mayors, Councilors and officers of Barcelona and its metropolitan area (l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Diputació de Barcelona). The main aim of this...
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,...

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