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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...
Fostering the alliance between local governments and civil society on community-led housing
Monday, 10 June 2019
From May 31 to June 3, the city of Geneva hosted the annual meeting of the “CoHabitat network”: A civil society initiative gathering community-led housing organizations and allies from across the world, who work, in its own words, to secure housing rights through collective, non-speculative and people-led solutions. The meeting welcomed representatives from many...
Local Governments and Human Rights: Invitation to a dialogue with the United Nations and contribution of the Committee to the UCLG World Congress
Monday, 13 May 2019
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights have the pleasure to invite interested local governments representatives to a meeting next June 17 at Geneva’s Palais Wilson. This event will count with the participation of OHCHR’s Deputy High Commissioner, Kate Gilmore...
The call for the IOPD Award 2019 is now open! (Local practices on participatory democracy)
Monday, 29 April 2019
(Source: IOPD – International Observatory on Participatory Democracy) The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) invites local and regional governments that are members of the IOPD to submit their proposal for the XIII edition of the Award. This distinction is an award given annually by the observatory to recognize innovative experiences and...
Call for contributions: Cultural Rights and Public Space
Friday, 26 April 2019
(Source: UCLG Committee on Culture – Agenda 21 Culture) The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights current mandate holder, Karima Bennoune, will address the topic of “Cultural rights and public spaces” and is now consulting a wide range of stakeholders, including cities, local governments, States, UN agencies, academics and experts, artists,...

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