Nº 38. November - December

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Local voices for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy

Monday, 08 January 2018

After the celebration of its 7th edition in September 2017, the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) has proved to be the main meeting point for human rights cities at the global level. Here are some its last year's edition outcomes. Over the last years, the city of Gwangju (also a co-Chair of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and...

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SOMOS: Lisbon aims at developing Human Rights culture and democratic citizenship through training and awareness-raising

Monday, 01 January 2018

SOMOS is a local Programme of Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights prepared from scratch along one year and launched in Lisbon at 10 December 2015, costing 100.000€ and reaching directly 2000 people per year. It aims to develop a shared culture of Human Rights and Democracy in the city through training and awareness-raising initiatives. SOMOS...

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The Right to the City in the agenda of “Solidary metropolitan areas”: reflecting on the outcomes of the 2017 FALP Forum (São Leopoldo)

Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Last 23 to 25 November, Antonio Aniesa, collaborator of Plaine Commune’s President Patrick Braouezec, an urban conurbation at the north of Paris, represented the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights at São Leopoldo’s seminar of the “Forum of Local Authorities of Periphery (FALP) for solidary metropolitan areas”. São Leopoldo...

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A space for solidarity in Beirut: Amel House of the Human Rights (AHHR)

Monday, 18 December 2017

The Committee on Social Inclusion and Participatory Democracy (CSIPD) of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) met Hiba Kassir Kchour, Livelihood coordinator from the Amel Association International, a non-sectarian Lebanese NGO, working since 1979 to support all people in need. The organisation is currently operating through 24 centres across the country, such...

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The peripheries of the world call to build metropolitan areas from the bottom-up: Seminar of the FALP network (Porto Alegre and São Leopoldo)

Monday, 11 December 2017

Source: FALP network The Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the Municipality of São Leopoldo hosted the Seminar of the FALP Network, held from November 23 to 25 in Porto Alegre and São Leopoldo (Brazil). This meeting brought together up to 47 local authorities from 11 different countries, who exchanged perspectives and experiences on "...

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Local Governments advocate for a governance of migrations based on Human Rights, at the Conference on Cities and Migration (Mechelen)

Monday, 27 November 2017

Last 16 and 17 November, the Committee took part in the Global Conference on Cities and Migration, in Mechelen (Belgium), organised by UCLG, the International Organization of Migrations (IOM), the City of Mechelen and UN-Habitat. The conference gathered over 150 representatives of local and regional governments from all over the world, as well as representatives of...

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Global Call on the World Day for the Right to the City: Stop Forced Evictions

Monday, 20 November 2017

Source: Global Platform for the Right to the City (published on the occasion of the World Day for the Right to the City, last 31 october) The Global Platform for the Right to the City members, friends and allies from all around the world, gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, declare the 31th October of every year the World Day for the Right to the City and make a global...

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Members news

The city of Montevideo works to guarantee the Right to Housing and to the City hand in hand with its citizens

Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Uruguay’s capital city, Montevideo (1,300,000 inhabitants), is widely recognized for its pioneer policies in the field of housing cooperatives and the Right to Housing. Deeply related to Montevideo's grassroots movements, the housing cooperatives movement recently reached its half-century of history by securing a strengthened cooperation with the government of the...

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Grenoble promotes the notion of inclusive citizenship through participation and human rights education

Monday, 04 December 2017

In between the French Alps and the Isère River, Grenoble (162,780 inhabitants) is a city with numerous local initiatives reclaiming the Right to the City and the Right to Housing, the ecological transition and an economic model based on commons (see the report made by the Committee after its mission to the city last March). It should also be noted that given its...

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