Source: Committee on Culture – Agenda 21 Culture
The International Award UCLG - Mexico City - Culture 21, coorganized by UCLG, Mexico City and the Committee on Culture of…
Source: HIC – Global Platform for the Right to the City
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development and it has a central…
The Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity – FAMSI organized last 15 May in Seville “Andalucía Integradora: City networks as an instrument to foster local…
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba”, this article recalls the words of the Mayor of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, Anton Salman, who took part, at the…
The UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing presented her 2018 annual report at the last session of the Human Rights Council, held in March 2018. Special Rapporteur Farha…
Source: UCLG
The United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Executive Bureau will be held on 23-26 May at the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg,…
From 16 to 18 April 2018, and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the city of Montevideo organized the seminar “Diálogos Urbanos…
From April 4 to 5 the Committee organized – in co-partnership with several local organizations and the laboratory “la Ville en Commun” – the conference “Henri Lefebvre’s Right to…
The report "Competitive Metropolises and the Prospects for Spatial Justice: the role of metropolitan areas within the global agenda of local and regional governments for the 21st…
Located in the north of Paris, Plaine Commune is one of the twelve territories conforming the “Grand Paris” metropolitan area. Plaine Commune gathers nine cities, home to around…
Source: International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
The Distinction "Best Practice in Citizen Participation" is an award given annually by the International Observatory…
In order to keep feeding the debates on how to put citizen participation at the service of social inclusion, the Committee has edited and printed the study "Social Inclusion and…
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is an Indian job-guarantee scheme, enacted by legislation on 25 August 2005. The scheme provides a legal…
Source photo : Mídia Ninja
Marielle Franco, 38, was one of the 32 black women elected councillors in Brazil capital cities. Sociologist, born in the favela of Maré, in Rio de…
After showcasing in the Cities and Migration Conference the need to listen to cities when carrying out migration policies and to defend rights-based strategies in this regard, the…