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02/12/2010
The second meeting of the Committee in 2010 took place on November 17 in Mexico D.F in the framework of UCLG´s Summit. 50 people attended the meeting representing thirty cities or…
01/12/2010
The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy Committee (CISDP) took place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on 21 November 2009. Unlike other years, in 2009…
30/11/2010
The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - 3rd UCLG World Congress was held in Mexico D.F from 17 to 20 November. More than 2,000 local governments from 114 countries…
29/11/2010
On 17 November, the CSIPD presented the Global Charter-Agenda on Human Rights in the City in UCLG´s Executive Bureau meeting. This initiative has been promoted since 2007 with…
29/11/2010
The CSIPD organized one of the Summit´s parallel sessions on the issue of "Fighting against social exclusion - the right to the city and to solidarity-based metropolises". The…
11/11/2010
It is our pleasure to inform you that the 2nd 2010 Biannual Meeting of the CSIPD will be held on 17 November from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm in the Escuela de Administración Pública del…
09/11/2010
Next 17, 18 and 19 November 2010 will be held in Mexico City the 10thOIDP Annual Conference "Global crisis, participatory democracy and local alternatives". The overall objective…
20/10/2010
The city of Tuzla, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, hosted the 7th Conference on the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City in early October, which was attended…
20/10/2010
The city of Tuzla, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, hosted the 7th Conference on the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City in early October, which was attended…
30/08/2010
After the conferences in Barcelona (1998), Saint-Denis (2000), Venice (2002), Nuremburg (2004), Lyon (2006), and Geneva (2008), the Bosnian city of Tuzla will host the 7th…
26/08/2010
Secretary-General of UN Ban Ki-moon nominated on the 23rd of August Joan Clos, former mayor of Barcelona, Spain, and one of the Founding Fathers of the World Organization, as the…
26/08/2010
After more than 15 years of a worldwide campaign led by Bolivia, the United Nations recognised the right to drinkable water as a fundamental right. The resolution was adopted with…
24/08/2010
The Local and Regional Leaders World Summit, which will be held in Mexico City from 17 to 20 November, will be preceded by a series of online debates on the website http://www.…
21/07/2010
The Second Forum of Local Authorities of the Periphery (FLAP) gathered, between 10 and 12 June in Getafe, 600 mayors and officials from around thirty countries, invited by the…
12/07/2010
From the 28th of June to the 1st of July, the city of Nantes hosted the fourth edition of the Global Forum on Human Rights in the City. The Forum, which was originally put forward…