Source: UCLG
With the launch of the 2016 annual report, United Cities and Local Governments, the world organization of cities, metropolises and regions summarizes the events…
Source: Forum of Peripheral Local Authorities
In its will to continue to make the voice of peripheral cities heard, the world network FALP will organize an international seminar…
Halfway monitoring, transparency and advocacy, Bogotá’s Veeduría Distrital (Ombudsman) is a public institution that has been devoted, since 1993, to the preventive control of…
Source: CGLU
For the first time, UCLG contributed to the International Labour Organisation Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy public policies, which its 8th…
The poverty reduction strategy carried out by the city of Toronto aims at ensuring, by 2035, that Toronto becomes a city with opportunities for all, pioneer in the collective…
From 16 to 19 June, the Office of Public Consultation of Montreal hosted the 17th Conference of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy (OIDP). Its thematic…
In the last months, Madrid has promoted various relevant initiatives in areas like participatory democracy, transparency and human rights. The Strategic Plan for Human Rights was…
Under the leadership of Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and through its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, UCLG is putting the right to…
Last June, Barcelona organized two meetings on direct democracy and the Right to the City. Both conferences gathered elected representatives and technical officers, as well as…
The world’s largest gathering of cities for culture was held last May in Jeju, Republic of Korea, with the commitment to strengthen international collaboration to make culture a…
Source: UCLG
The Fourth Report of the Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) reviews the diverse realities of metropolitan areas, intermediary…
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, the Gwangju Metropolitan City and the Gwangju International Centre are…
Next 20 June, the trial against the arrested Co-Mayor of our member city of Diyarbakır, Gültan Kışanak, will take place under a context of state of emergency in Turkey. According…
The Kashatakh region is one of the seven administrative units of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory between Azerbaijan and Armenia. In the early 1990s, as a result of the armed…
On 18 April, on the occasion of the UCLG Executive Bureau held in Madrid, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights and the City Council of…