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Culture, an essential part of UCLG's policy
Monday, 08 April 2019
(Source: UCLG) The UCLG policy councils are the mechanisms that nurture and shape the Organization's political priorities. In the framework of the UCLG Culture Summit and as part of the Executive Bureau, they hosted political meetings focusing on the role of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. The Policy Council on the Right to the City,...
Grigny’s Mayor Call: For local governments that commit to defend the right to peace from the grassroots to the global level
Thursday, 04 April 2019
Philippe Rio is the mayor of Grigny (28.424 inhabitants) – a small town on the outskirts of Paris marked by strong inequalities compared to the richest districts of the French capital. Philippe Rio's commitment to defend social and spatial justice for city dwellers of peripheral cities has led him to become an active member of the French association “Ville &...
Biennial Cities in Transition: Grenoble reaffirms its commitment as a welcoming and solidary territory towards migration
Wednesday, 03 April 2019
The Biennial “Villes en Transition” (Cities in Transition) took place last 9 to 16 March in the French city of Grenoble. This important event for global municipalism and the ecological transition hosted a great number of debates, conferences and cultural events on a wide range of social and environmental issues. On the occasion of these debates, a great attention...
A look at Vienna’s human rights system: Interview to Human Rights Commissioner, Shams Asadi
Tuesday, 02 April 2019
Five years after launching its process aimed at assuming a more active role in human rights policies as municipal administration, Vienna has become an inspiring example of “Human Rights City” in Europe and beyond. At present, the city counts with consolidated policies, institutions and laws that actively promote human rights both as a mainstream topic in local...
In Tunis, UCLG co-organizes technical Consultation on SDG 16+
Friday, 29 March 2019
Source: UCLG On March, 26 and 27, UCLG co-organized a technical consultation on the establishment of Inclusive Local Institutions, with UNDP, the Tunisian Republic and the Global Alliance for SDG 16. The meeting was attended by a delegation of sixty elected officials and representatives of local and regional governments from Tunisia and Morocco, West-Asia and...
Multistakeholder dialogue on the “Cities for Adequate Housing” Declaration: What challenges at the European level?
Friday, 22 March 2019
On March 5, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, the CIDOB Global Cities programme and the City of Barcelona organized a multistakeholder dialogue on how to provide a follow-up to the Cities for Adequate Housing Declaration at the European level. On an initial round of discussions, eight signatory municipalities of the...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing publishes a new report on « The Right to Housing and Access to Justice »
Thursday, 21 March 2019
On March 4, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha, presented to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council her latest report on “Access to justice as a means of realizing the right to housing” (A/HRC/40/61). The report argues that “the global housing crisis is rooted in a crisis in access to justice because without access to justice,...
More than twenty local governments have sent their contributions to the UN OHCHR's report on “Local Government and Human Rights”
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Local authorities and partner organizations from around the world have responded to the call for contributions launched by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for its next report on “Local Government and Human Rights”. This event marks an important breakthrough, as it has highlighted local governments commitment on human rights at both the local...

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