11/07/2022
The UCLG-CSIPDHR, Ernestine Ronai (head) and Amélie Videau (coordinator) of the International Observatory on Violence against Women (OIVF) of Seine-Saint-Denis (France) met with…
08/07/2022
From 29 June to 1 July, 2022, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (CISDPHR), co-organized the International Meetings on Climate…
27/06/2022
In the occasion of the UCLG Executive Bureau (13-15 June 2022), the UCLG-CSIPDHR organized a special session on the Global Campaign launched last February by the Co-presidency of…
17/05/2022
The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, launched a call for contributions to a Report on the linkages between the right to adequate housing and…
20/04/2022
The UCLG Municipal Peace Talks are an exercise of multilateral peacebuilding from a local perspective that will set the ground for local to local dialogue beyond the current…
29/03/2022
By Clara Brugada Molina, Mayor of Iztapalapa, Mexico (published in the CESA Magazine of CDMX, Vol V).
Until few decades ago, the “city” was thought as a neutral space and that…
28/03/2022
From 22 November to 29 November 2021, the Departmental Observatory on Violence against Women and the European and International Department of the Seine Saint Denis welcomed the…
25/03/2022
Last November, UCLG and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) signed an historical cooperation agreement to strengthen the human right cities…
18/03/2022
This International Women's Day took place in a global context marked by the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which has forced millions Ukrainian men and women to leave…
09/12/2021
On Human Rights Day 2021, our Committee joins its member-local governments and international partners in celebrating human rights. We highlight with particular emphasis their key…
02/12/2021
Last December 1st, our Committee organized the special session “Municipalism, social movements and feminist approaches”. The event highlighted local government perspectives on…
25/11/2021
The 2021 edition of the UCLG World Council held in Barcelona from 15 to 18 November saw the official presentation of a letter of agreement between UCLG and the Office of the UN…
25/11/2021
The “Femmes du Monde” Seminar (Women of the World) held in Seine Saint Denis from 22 to 29 November saw the launch of the “Caring territories for women victims of violence”…
24/11/2021
The International Observatory on Violence against Women and Girls gathers local government efforts to address VAWG in urban territories worldwide. This is an initiative promoted…
16/11/2021
The fourth edition of the Transformative Cities award is looking forward to receiving a good number of submissions by local governments implementing projects related to social…