Results for Right to the City
Local democracy has gained weight in the agendas of local government, UCLG and other international organizations throughout 2018. In November, and on the occasion of its…
A delegation from the Seine-Saint-Denis, Plaine Commune and Saint-Denis (France) visited the city of Granollers (Spain) on 26 and 27 November in order to meet with its Mayor,…
Last November 22, our Committee and the Global Platform for the Right to the City organized the session “Right to the City and international agendas: African realities and…
The city of Madrid welcomed, from 5 to 8 November, a new edition of the “World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace” as well as the 2018 World…
The network of Mediterranean cities MedCities celebrated its Annual Conference last 4 and 5 October in Barcelona in a meeting gathering 40 local representatives from across the…
From 4 to 7 July 2018, our Committee took part in a study trip organized by the Ecole de Rénovation Urbaine (France). The delegation was formed by representatives of Plaine…
Our constituency lived a historical turning point last 15 and 16 July, when a group of major global cities brought to the UN a firm pledge for the Right to Housing in the…
Last Sunday, 15 July, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights co-organized a special session on the Right to Housing as a preview of…
Co-chairs and Councilors of the Policy Council on the Right to the City of UCLG expressed a strong commitment in regards to human rights-based strategies on housing and migration…
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…
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…
After attending the 2017 edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum organized by the city of Gwangju, our Secretariat visited Seoul to meet with municipal agencies and…
Last 23 to 25 November, Antonio Aniesa, collaborator of Plaine Commune’s President Patrick Braouezec, an urban conurbation at the north of Paris, represented the UCLG Committee on…