The Swedish city of Umeå hosted from 10 to 15 June the first edition of the “Local Democracy Academy”: An international event organized by the International Centre for Local…
From May 31 to June 3, the city of Geneva hosted the annual meeting of the “CoHabitat network”: A civil society initiative gathering community-led housing organizations and allies…
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights have the pleasure to invite…
(Source: IOPD – International Observatory on Participatory Democracy)
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) invites local and regional governments…
(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…
(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…
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…
Image Source Steffen Brinamnn (Szs)
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 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…
(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…
Philippe Rio is the mayor of Grigny: a small town on the outskirts of Paris marked by strong inequalities compared to the richest districts of the French capital. Philippe Rio's…
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…
Five years after launching its process aimed at assuming a more active role in human rights policies as municipal administration, Vienna has become an inspiring example of “Human…
Source: UCLG
On March, 26 and 27, UCLG co-organized a technical consultation on the establishment of Inclusive Local Institutions, with UNDP, the Tunisian Republic and the Global…
On March 5, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, the CIDOB Global Cities programme and the City of Barcelona organized a…