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Barcelona’s Observatory of Discrimination: An innovative mechanism to monitor discrimination from a local point of view
Wednesday, 09 September 2020
Barcelona has recently published the annual report of its Observatory of Discrimination: A collective effort led by the city’s human rights department and a dozen local human rights organizations. The report analyzes the situation of human rights in the city on the basis of the monitoring of discrimination events ocurred over the last year. Overall, the report...
The UCLG-CSIPDHR contributed to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing on “COVID-19 and the Right to Housing”
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
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 UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing is developing to address the impact of COVID-19 on the right to housing guarantee. The CSIPDHR contribution contains a compilation of good...
Human rights as a transformative framework #BeyondTheOutbreak: An online seminar promotes the human rights city vision in Equator
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
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 local governments in Ecuador. It was attended by hundreds of local representatives from across the Andean country - many of which are already developing innovative policies inspired by human...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: Interview to Pedro del Cura, Mayor of Rivas Vaciamadrid
Monday, 22 June 2020
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 best way to combat inequalities (both consolidated and emerging) while showing the effective capacity of local governments to contribute to this effort in the short and long term. The...
UCLG Community of Practice on Housing: Assessing ways to advance the right to housing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’s aftermath
Friday, 12 June 2020
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” Declaration. The meeting offered an opportunity to explore shared challenges and policies put in place these last months, as well as a platform for reflecting on housing’s role in the pandemic...
Call for contributions to the next UN Report on the Right to Housing and COVID-19
Monday, 08 June 2020
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 (October 2020) on “COVID-19 and the right to housing”. Local and regional governments are encouraged to send their contribution to this report, in order to showcase both the challenges...
Challenges and responses to COVID-19: Interview to Paola Pabón, President of the Province of Pichincha (Ecuador)
Monday, 08 June 2020
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 predate the pandemic. Faced with the limitations of many national social protection systems, local and regional governments have led unprecedented levels of mobilisation, implementing...
Virtual Meeting of the UCLG Community of Practice on Housing: Protecting the Right to Housing in the context of COVID-19 and #BeyondTheOutbreak
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
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 regional governments to protect the right to housing in these times of crisis, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights and the city of Barcelona are co-...

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