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The Right to the City: What prospects fifty years after Henri Lefebvre’s eponymous book?
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…
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The report “Competitive Metropolises and Prospects for Spatial Justice” is already available online
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…
Grassroots movements of Seoul are getting organized to turn their Right to the City into a reality
Grassroots movements of Seoul are getting organized to turn their Right to the City into a reality
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…
The Right to the City in the agenda of “Solidary metropolitan areas”: reflecting on the outcomes of the 2017 FALP Forum (São Leopoldo)
The Right to the City in the agenda of “Solidary metropolitan areas”: reflecting on the outcomes of the 2017 FALP Forum (São Leopoldo)
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…
The peripheries of the world call to build metropolitan areas from the bottom-up: Seminar of the FALP network (Porto Alegre and São Leopoldo)
The peripheries of the world call to build metropolitan areas from the bottom-up: Seminar of the FALP network (Porto Alegre and São Leopoldo)
Source: FALP network The Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the Municipality of São Leopoldo hosted the Seminar of the FALP Network, held from November 23…
The city of Barcelona debates around direct democracy and the Right to the City
The city of Barcelona debates around direct democracy and the Right to the City
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 minutes of the Committee's meeting on Human Rights and the Right to the City are available
The minutes of the Committee's meeting on Human Rights and the Right to the City are available
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…
In Grenoble, Local Government and civil society organizations address the issue of the Right to the City and the Ecological Transition
In Grenoble, Local Government and civil society organizations address the issue of the Right to the City and the Ecological Transition
From 7 to 12 March 2017, the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights went to Grenoble to take part to the Biennale des Villes en Transition (…
Senegalese Local Governments adopt a Charter of Citizen Participation and Right to the City
Senegalese Local Governments adopt a Charter of Citizen Participation and Right to the City
Last 22 December, 75 Senegalese elected representatives (Mayors and Presidents of Departmental Councils) signed a Charter of Citizen Participation and Right to the City in the…
At the UCLG Congress and Habitat III, Local Governments and Civil Society enhance the global agenda for the Right to the City
At the UCLG Congress and Habitat III, Local Governments and Civil Society enhance the global agenda for the Right to the City
The Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights actively took part at the UCLG World Congress in Bogota (12-15 October) and the UN Conference on…
Habitat III and New Urban Agenda: The Right to the City campaign
Habitat III and New Urban Agenda: The Right to the City campaign
Habitat III was the third edition of the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, held in follow-up to previous conferences held in Vancouver (1976) and…
The Right to the City, recognized in the Habitat III Agenda–now it’s time to make sure that there are means for its implementation
On 10 September, the Secretariat of Habitat III released the final draft of the so-called “New Urban Agenda”, which was agreed in the intergovernmental informal meeting that took…
The Committee takes part in PrepCom 3 in Surabaya to defend the inclusion of the Right to the City in the Habitat III Agenda
On July 25-27 2016, the third and last Habitat III Preparatory Committee took place in Surabaya (Indonesia), with the attendance of most of the States’ delegates. The UCLG…
The Right to the City will be present at UCLG-A 7th Africities Summit
      The city of Johannesburg (South-Africa), along with UCLG Africa (UCLG-A) hosts, from November 29th to December 3rd, the 7th Africities Summit, which…
Assessment and Final Declaration of Mexico’s International seminar of local governments for the Right to the City
The International seminar of local governments for the Right to the City, co‑organized by the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human…