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…
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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…
Within the framework of the transformative political process carried out since 1996 in Cotacachi's cantón (Ecuador), local institutions have placed special emphasis on enhancing…
On the 2nd of March, UCLG took part in the Human Rights Council session “How to shift housing from a commodity to a human right?" convened by the UN Special Rapporteur…
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The United Nations has released the zero draft of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). As UCLG, we are concerned by the …
Located at the heart of Flanders, in northern Belgium, Mechelen (85.655 inhabitants) is a city with a rich past and a prosperous urban life. Gathering the echoes of European’s…