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Renewed Mandate of the Committee in Mexico with a new name
Friday, 10 December 2010
The 3rd UCLG World Congress (Mexico City, 16 – 21 November 2010) ended with a renewal of the Committees´ mandate and the merger of the Decentralised Cooperation and City Diplomacy Committees into a single working structure. Several cities belonging to UCLG also declared their interest in providing a fresh impetus for the Gender Committee (Aubagne, Paris and Geneva)...
CSIPD Meeting in Mexico
Thursday, 02 December 2010
The second meeting of the Committee in 2010 took place on November 17 in Mexico D.F in the framework of UCLG´s Summit. 50 people attended the meeting representing thirty cities or institutions from 9 countries from Africa, North America, Latin America and Europe. At the meeting, participants assessed the activities undertaken during the last three years and approved...
Overview of the 2009 CISDP Annual Meeting
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy Committee (CISDP) took place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on 21 November 2009. Unlike other years, in 2009 the CISDP only met in full on one occasion, and to do so, it chose a particularly symbolic setting: the 9th Conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD)....
Results of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - 3rd UCLG World Congress was held in Mexico D.F from 17 to 20 November. More than 2,000 local governments from 114 countries participated in the event. During three days, 3 plenary sessions, 10 parallel sessions and dozens of meetings took place.   The city also hosted the meeting of UCLG Executive Bureau, as well as...
The Right to the City and to Solidarity-based Metropolis in UCLG´s Summit
Monday, 29 November 2010
The CSIPD organized one of the Summit´s parallel sessions on the issue of "Fighting against social exclusion - the right to the city and to solidarity-based metropolises". The debate was held on November 18, taking this idea as a starting point: even though cities are sources of innovation and progress, they also have high levels of social and spatial segregation...
Presentation of the Charter-Agenda to the Executive Bureau in Mexico
Monday, 29 November 2010
On 17 November, the CSIPD presented the Global Charter-Agenda on Human Rights in the City in UCLG´s Executive Bureau meeting. This initiative has been promoted since 2007 with the political support of the Region of Pays de la Loire and the city of Nantes (France) through their International Secretariat for Human Rights (SPDIH). In order to promote the implementation...
The CSIPD at the Local and Regional Leaders Summit, Mexico
Thursday, 11 November 2010
It is our pleasure to inform you that the 2nd 2010 Biannual Meeting of the CSIPD will be held on 17 November from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm in the Escuela de Administración Pública del Distrito Federal, 4 Tacuba Street - in the Historic City Centre of Mexico D.F (see map). The objective of this meeting is to present you the CSIPD Activities Report 2008 - 2010 and the...
10th IOPD Conference in Mexico
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Next 17, 18 and 19 November 2010 will be held in Mexico City the 10th OIDP Annual Conference "Global crisis, participatory democracy and local alternatives". The overall objective of the conference will be to reflect and discuss about the impact of the current global crisis in cities and about possible alternative responses (political, social, cultural, economic and...

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