Linda Voortman has been the Alderman (Co-Mayor) of Utrecht responsible for social affairs, diversity and municipal organization since 2018. In this position, she joined the Co-…
Valencia has become the latest city to join the “Cities for Adequate Housing” Declaration in 2020, as announced by the city’s Social Services and Housing Councillor Isabel Lozano…
Exploring rooms for maneuver at local governments’ hands to implement the Cities for Adequate Housing Declaration and supporting young researchers in their academic projects on…
The “Call of the 14th November” represents a landmark political initiative by municipal authorities in France. Elected local government representatives from different political…
Various representatives of the UCLG-CSIPDHR co-presidency took part in several statutory events of the UCLG World Council held on 9-13 November in an integrated setting in…
The 10th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) was held from 7 to 10 October in an integrated setting, with sessions taking place both in Gwangju as well as…
Barcelona has recently published the annual report of its Observatory of Discrimination: A collective effort ldc by the city’s human rights department and a dozen local human…
Building on the outcomes of various events organized these last months as well as the practical experience of members, our Committee sent a formal contribution to the next report…
The meeting “Cities and Territories beyond COVID-19: A human rights-based resurgence” took place from June 14 to 19 with the aim of promoting the human rights city vision among…
Source photos: Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid
COVID-19 is fostering many interesting innovations in local government policy-making. The pandemic stressed rights guarantee as…
The UCLG Community of Practice on Housing meet last May 22 to showcase the latest developments face to COVID-19 by signatory cities of the “Cities for Adequate Housing”…
The recently nominated UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal has launched a call for contributions to his next report to the UN General Assembly (…
As COVID-19 is affecting more and more regions of the world, so does its harsh social and economic consequences - a crisis that, in many ways, stems from structural causes that…
As a direct follow-up of our previous Live Learning Experience on Housing (1 April), and in order to deepen and exchange on possible measures to be implemented by local and…
Across the world, many local governments have put in place emergency responses to housing-related challenges that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The potential…