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Assessing local governments’ contribution to the realization of inclusive and peaceful societies by 2030
Saturday, 10 August 2019
Our Committee has taken an active role in UCLG and global discussions on SDG 16 localization throughout the first half of 2019. Through the participation of its members and its Secretariat, the Committee has stressed the key linkages between the human rights-based approach and the specific nature of SDG 16 targets at a local level – that is, realization of...
9th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum of Gwangju (WHRCF 2019)
Friday, 02 August 2019
The next edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF 2019) of Gwangju (South Korea) will be held from 30 September to 3 October 2019. The metropolitan government of Gwangju, which is a co-chair of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, co-organizes the WHRCF each year after the support of the Gwangju...
International seminar of the FALP 2019 - Final Declaraton (Aizaria, Jerusalem)
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Source: Peripheral Cities Forum of UCLG (FALP) Local authorities present at the Seminar “Right to the City and Access to Metropolitan Areas for All” held in the Palestinian city of Aizaria (Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem) recall, more than ever, that our mainly urban planet cannot accept any form of urban apartheid. Be it in the form of concrete; caused by money,...
The Olympic and Paralympic Games as an opportunity for an inclusive urban transformation at the metropolitan level (Saint Denis 2019 Seminar)
Monday, 15 July 2019
Last 2 and 3 July, our Committee and its co-chairs of Seine Saint Denis and Plaine Commune organized an international seminar on “Inclusive and Solidary Olympic Games”. Held in the French cities of Saint Denis and Montreuil, this seminar aimed at providing a space for reflection over the future 2024 edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will be held in...
Webinar “Children on the Move in Urban Territories: Including Unaccompanied Minors”
Monday, 15 July 2019
In the framework of the MC2CM project, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, in partnership with UNICEF, are organizing an online seminar (webinar) on local challenges regarding the social inclusion of unaccompanied migrant minors. This webinar intends to offer a space for debate on this subject, as this is a major...
Mediterranean cities and civil society meet in Sfax for Migrants’ Right to the City
Thursday, 04 July 2019
Source: UCLG On 25 and 26 June, the Mediterranean City to City Migration (MC2CM) project brought together more than seventy participants in a peer learning event on mechanisms for cooperation between local governments and civil society in the field of migration. More than twenty cities attended this sub-regional meeting in Sfax accompanied by a dozen civil society...
Local governments bring human rights home: Report of the local government meeting in UN Human Rights Geneva’s seat (June 17 2019)
Monday, 01 July 2019
More than 20 local governments from all over the world took part in the meeting of “Local Governments for Human Rights” organized last 17 June by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (UCLG CSIPDHR). This was indeed an unprecedented opportunity...
Tackling discrimination, building inclusive cities: Policy Lab on the Right to the City (Umeå)
Thursday, 20 June 2019
The Swedish city of Umeå hosted from 10 to 15 June the first edition of the “Local Democracy Academy”: An international event organized by the International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) in partnership with UCLG. Our Committee held in this framework a policy lab on the issue of non-discrimination at the local level, which allowed to present transformative...

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