UN-Habitat jointly with the Italian hosts will celebrate the 6th Session of the World Urban Forum on 1-7 September in Naples.
The theme for this year´s Forum is …
UCLG presents the main outcomes of the Rio+20 Summit and the important successes achieved. With the negotiations heading towards an environmentally driven agenda in…
Local and sub-national authorities from around the world have gathered in Rio to remind the governments gathered at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the…
By May 31st, the Guangzhou Award Secretariat has received a great number of registrations from cities and local governments around the world.
Considering that some applicants have…
The cities of Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis, and the conurbation authority of Plaine Commune, at the invitation of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy…
The last round of negotiations in New York for the Rio Summit open up today with a new draft text on the table produced by the Co-Chairs (Antigua and Barbuda - Latin…
After some consultations carried out last week on the participation of UCLG in Rio de Janeiro next June, the UCLG Presidency has decided to cancel the Executive Bureau initially…
For the first time since it was adopted in 2006, the Montreal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities has been revised through public consultation in accordance with a provision of…
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, the city of Saint-Denis and the conurbation authority of Plaine Commune …
The National Federation of Tunisian Cities (FNVT) is organizing, jointly with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and the Province of Barcelona, with the support of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
´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…