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14/05/2012
From June 11th to 13th, the 12th International Observatory on Participatory Democracy Conference will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, organized by Porto Alegre´s City Council and…
04/05/2012
  A High-level Local and Regional Authorities´ delegation is to meet the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon on 23 April at UN Headquarters in New.  "With half of…
04/04/2012
The "Serie Derechos Humanos Emergentes" (Emerging Human Rights Series) collection of the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia includes a new publication devoted to “The right to…
19/03/2012
On the occasion of the 6th World Water Forum, held in Marseille from 12 to 17 March 2012, 350 local and regional elected officials from across the 5 continents have met to…
07/03/2012
´Cities are us´ is a series of events culminating in an international conference that will be held between 28 and 30 June 2012 in the Portuguese city of Coimbra, and a summer…
01/03/2012
The first Porto Alegre International Film Festival (Democracine) will take place in the Brazilian city from 13th to June 16, 2012. This festival aims to raise the profile of…
28/02/2012
As the World Water Forum is approaching, a preparatory meeting took place in Barcelona on 15th February. Many cities and international organizations from different world regions…
28/02/2012
The Metropolis Initiatives launched in 2012 constitute the main lynchpin of the new Action Plan of the Metropolitan Section of UCLG to foster specific projects and services for…
28/02/2012
We are pleased to announce that the 1st 2012 half-yearly meeting of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights will take place in Aubagne on…
28/02/2012
The Fifty-Sixth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations will be held on 27 February-9 March 2012 in New York. Due to the thematic topic of…
01/02/2012
As we approach the 6th World Water Forum co-organized by the French Government, the City of Marseilles and the World Water Council, we would like to inform you that the 14th and…
20/01/2012
The International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (IOPD) encourages you to present a candidacy application for the 6th Edition of the "Best Practice in Citizens´…
20/12/2011
UCLG World Council held last 11 December 2011 in Florence (Italy) decided to adopt the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City at the proposal of the Committee on…
13/12/2011
At the invitation of Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, the city of Florence hosted the UCLG World Council from 9 to 11 December, gathering 500 local and regional representatives…
01/12/2011
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights is pleased to invite you to the round table "Local Governments and the Right to the City" taking…