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A new set of UN Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Housing has been presented by Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Leilani Farha presented last 5 March her last report to the Human Rights Council, containing a set of guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing. This report is the culmination of Rapporteur Farha’s 6 years’ mandate, which has been marked by her worldwide promotion of human rights-inspired housing...
The Right to the City for Women: Advancing the CSIPDHR and UCLG’s Agenda on Gender Equality
Sunday, 08 March 2020
Following the key messages shared by Mexico City, Montreal and Barcelona in their open letter on the Right to the City for Women (2019, March 8), the CSIPDHR proposed the special session “Co-creating Local Policies for Women’s Rights” during Iztapalapa’s IOPD Conference. This event addressed some topical issues in regards to women’s right to the city – such as...
Presentation of the Action Plan 2020 of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (UCLG CSIPDHR)
Friday, 21 February 2020
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (UCLG CSIPDHR) is pleased to share with its members and partners its Action Plan for 2020. This document provides a framework for strategic articulation for the initiatives and actions led by members and partners of the Committee in a wide variety of thematic areas, including human...
Addressing urban inequalities in India and the rest of the world: Bangalore hosts IIHS’ Urban ARC Conference and the 2019 meeting of the KNOW project
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Last 16 to 18 January, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) hosted a new edition of the Urban ARC Conference, gathering leading research initiatives on urban issues in India and its regional environment. On 2019, the Urban ARC Conference was held in conjunction to a meeting of the KNOW project – Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality: An action-...
Towards the 10th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) of Gwangju
Wednesday, 05 February 2020
The 2020 edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) has been postponed to October 7-10 2020 due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Given the importance of May 18, 2020, which will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gwangju’s Democratic Uprising, the WHRCF’s host city and its partners wished to hold some symbolic initiatives throughout the day in order to recall the...
Participatory democracy to place peripheries at the centre: The IOPD addresses the Right to the City in its 2019 Conference held in Iztapalapa
Friday, 20 December 2019
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) held on December 7, 8, 9 and 10 the 19th edition of its Annual Conference in Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Hundreds of participants, both from Iztapalapa and Mexico City as well as from many other parts of the world, took part in the main meeting point on participatory democracy and local governments...
The CSIPDHR takes part in an expert meeting on human rights cities organized by the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency
Monday, 09 December 2019
Last November 27 and 28, a group of local government representatives and human rights experts gathered in Brussels to discuss how to strengthen the local governments for human rights’ movement across the European Union. The meeting was convened by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), which intends to launch a common “framework of commitments” on this issue, with...
Our Committee takes part in the 2019 Festival HAM held in Jember Regency: A meeting point on local human rights issues in Indonesia
Thursday, 05 December 2019
From November 18 to 21, Indonesia’s Jember Regency hosted the sixth edition of the National Festival of Cities for Human Rights and Social Justice (HAM Festival). On this year’s edition, the festival brought together nearly a thousand participants from Indonesian civil society and many organizations working on human rights issues in Asia both at the local and...

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