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22/03/2024
World Water Day: Water for Peace The universality of human rights starts at the local level! The municipalities of Quilmes, Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Florencio Varela and…
25/10/2023
As part of the «Human Rights 75» initiative to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, our Committee interviews the Global Platform for the Right to the…
25/10/2023
On 20 September, UCLG and our Committee facilitated the online consultation "Cities for Adequate Housing" in the framework of the Community of Practice on Housing, which brought…
27/09/2023
Located on the eastern periphery of Mexico City, the municipality of Iztapalapa is the gateway for the entire poor population of the southeast of the country and for the…
27/09/2023
As part of the Human Rights 75 initiative to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, we interview our Co-President Linda Voortman, Co-Mayor of Utrecht,…
05/09/2023
Homelessness is one of the most severe problems currently facing cities and regions around the world, undermining people’s opportunities to live prosperous lives and eroding the…
27/06/2023
On the occasion of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human…
11/01/2023
The 2022 UCLG World Congress was held last October in Daejeon, South Korea. In this framework, a special session on Housing was held: “Cities for Adequate Housing: from present…
13/07/2022
The sixth edition of the GOLD report  produced by UCLG will be launched during the UCLG World Congress, which will take place in Daejeon (Republic of Korea), in October 2022. The…
29/03/2022
By Clara Brugada Molina, Mayor of Iztapalapa, Mexico (published in the CESA Magazine of CDMX, Vol V). Until few decades ago, the “city” was thought as a neutral space and that…
02/12/2021
Last December 1st, our Committee organized the special session “Municipalism, social movements and feminist approaches”. The event highlighted local government perspectives on…
25/11/2021
The “Femmes du Monde” Seminar (Women of the World) held in Seine Saint Denis from 22 to 29 November saw the launch of the “Caring territories for women victims of  violence”…
24/11/2021
The International Observatory on Violence against Women and Girls gathers local government efforts to address VAWG in urban territories worldwide. This is an initiative promoted…
16/11/2021
The fourth edition of the Transformative Cities award is looking forward to receiving a good number of submissions by local governments implementing projects related to social…
29/10/2021
A delegation of the UCLG-CSIPDHR attended the 20th edition of the annual conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy Conference, held in Cocody (Ivory…