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II FALP in Getafe, Spain
Friday, 05 February 2010
At a time when half of the world´s population lives in cities, the challenges faced by local governments are rapidly increasing. The dynamics of growth of the major cities means that the most vulnerable sectors of the population are being pushed towards the edges of cities. As a result, local government bodies located on the outskirts of large cities today have...
Decentralised World Social Forum (WSF)
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
After the last WSF, which took place in January 2009 in the Brazilian town of Belém do Pará, several decentralised forums are planned this year in countries such as Brazil, Spain, the United States, Japan, Mexico, the Czech Republic and Turkey. The city of Dakar (Senegal) will host the 11th WSF in 2011. More information on the social forums organised in 2010 can be...
VII Conference of the European Charter on Human Rights in the City
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
The next Conference on the European Charter on Human Rights in the City will take place in Tuzla (Bosnia - Herzegovina) between 7 and 9 October 2010. After the Conferences in Barcelona (1998), Saint-Denis (2000), Venice (2004), Lyon (2006) and Geneva (2008), the Charter celebrates 10 years of existence in a country with a recent past that calls for greater efforts to...
UCLG World Council 2009
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Around 500 representatives of local and regional authorities, and their partners - international institutions and some national representatives - visited Guangzhou (China) between 10 and 13 November 2009 for the meetings of the Executive Bureau and the World Council of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). A total of 30 meetings took place, including the...
IOPD Distinction “Good Practice in Citizen Participation”
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
For the second year running, the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) invited the CSIPD to be part of the International Jury for the 4th Distinction "Good Practice in Citizen Participation" 2009, that will be made up of 6 local governments and 12 institutions this year (universities, research centres and organisations from local governments)....
Invitation to the 2009 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
The CSIPD will be holding its 2009 annual meeting on November 21st in Reggio Emilia (Italy). The meeting will take place on the occasion of the 9th IOPD Annual Conference, as a proof of goodwill of the Committee to strengthen its links with this network.   The draft agenda of the meeting is available at the following link: Draft agenda
CSIPD “Human Rights and Local Governments”
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
The Committee´s Working Group on "Human Rights and Local Governments" has recently been strengthened with the incorporation of the cities working on the European Charter on Human Rights in the City, drafted in Saint-Denis in 2000 and currently signed by over 400 cities. The mayors of the cities promoting the European Charter (Barcelona, Geneva, Lyon and Saint-Denis)...
Summer course in São Brás de Alportel
Friday, 25 September 2009
From September 9 to September 12 the municipality of São Bras de Alportel (Algarve, Portugal) hosted the Summer Course "Governation and participation challenging the crisis". This activity stemmed from the three-side cooperation between a civil society organisation, the In Loco Association; a research centre, the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) from the University of...

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