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Call for contributions: Cultural Rights and Public Space
Friday, 26 April 2019
(Source: UCLG Committee on Culture – Agenda 21 Culture) The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights current mandate holder, Karima Bennoune, will address the topic of “Cultural rights and public spaces” and is now consulting a wide range of stakeholders, including cities, local governments, States, UN agencies, academics and experts, artists,...
Visit UCLG Learning brand-new website!
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
(Source: UCLG Learning) After a long process of listening to the members’ demands, UCLG Learning has launched its new Website. This site will bring UCLG Learning to the next level, expanding its outreach to a broader public and providing online tools, new materials and work-in-progress information regarding its main axes: Localizing the Global Agendas; Peer-...
Strengthening inhabitants’ participation in slum upgrading processes through urban story-telling (Medellín)
Sunday, 14 April 2019
A representative from the Committee’s participated last March in a workshop held in Medellín on transmedia narratives and story-telling with a focus on slum upgrading. This workshop was held in the framework of the project “COiNVITE”, aimed at developing innovative learning methodologies on city-making based on story-telling, giving a major important to the...
Bologna: Providing social housing and fighting evictions through solidarity and cooperativism
Tuesday, 09 April 2019
Bologna is a city of 390,000 inhabitants. As a campus city, it is home to around 35,000 students each year. Tourism is on the rise, and so is the number of touristic apartments in the historical city center. The need for social housing in Bologna currently affects no less than 6,000 people that are living on or below the poverty line. Current real estate market...
19th IOPD Conference: Save the date (7 – 10 December; Iztapalapa, Mexico City)
Tuesday, 09 April 2019
The 19th IOPD conference will be held next December 7 to 10 in Iztapalapa, Mexico. The concept note of the event is now available online. Soon the organization will launch a call to participate in the event as a speaker or session facilitator. “Faced with the intense onslaught of unbridled urban development that is devastating our cities, transforming them into...
Culture, an essential part of UCLG's policy
Monday, 08 April 2019
(Source: UCLG) The UCLG policy councils are the mechanisms that nurture and shape the Organization's political priorities. In the framework of the UCLG Culture Summit and as part of the Executive Bureau, they hosted political meetings focusing on the role of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. The Policy Council on the Right to the City,...
Grigny’s Mayor Call: For local governments that commit to defend the right to peace from the grassroots to the global level
Thursday, 04 April 2019
Philippe Rio is the mayor of Grigny (28.424 inhabitants) – a small town on the outskirts of Paris marked by strong inequalities compared to the richest districts of the French capital. Philippe Rio's commitment to defend social and spatial justice for city dwellers of peripheral cities has led him to become an active member of the French association “Ville &...
Biennial Cities in Transition: Grenoble reaffirms its commitment as a welcoming and solidary territory towards migration
Wednesday, 03 April 2019
The Biennial “Villes en Transition” (Cities in Transition) took place last 9 to 16 March in the French city of Grenoble. This important event for global municipalism and the ecological transition hosted a great number of debates, conferences and cultural events on a wide range of social and environmental issues. On the occasion of these debates, a great attention...

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