The city of Tuzla, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, hosted the 7th Conference on the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City in early October, which was attended…
After the conferences in Barcelona (1998), Saint-Denis (2000), Venice (2002), Nuremburg (2004), Lyon (2006), and Geneva (2008), the Bosnian city of Tuzla will host the 7th…
Secretary-General of UN Ban Ki-moon nominated on the 23rd of August Joan Clos, former mayor of Barcelona, Spain, and one of the Founding Fathers of the World Organization, as the…
After more than 15 years of a worldwide campaign led by Bolivia, the United Nations recognised the right to drinkable water as a fundamental right. The resolution was adopted with…
The Local and Regional Leaders World Summit, which will be held in Mexico City from 17 to 20 November, will be preceded by a series of online debates on the website http://www.…
The Second Forum of Local Authorities of the Periphery (FLAP) gathered, between 10 and 12 June in Getafe, 600 mayors and officials from around thirty countries, invited by the…
From the 28th of June to the 1st of July, the city of Nantes hosted the fourth edition of the Global Forum on Human Rights in the City. The Forum, which was originally put forward…
The first meeting of the Committee in 2010 took place in Getafe on 12 June in the framework of the 2nd FALP. The meeting was attended by more than 20 cities from all over the…
The 2nd Forum of Peripheral Cities (FALP), held in Getafe between 10 and 12 June, brought together 600 mayors and elected representatives from thirty countries to debate how to…
Between 22 and 26 March 2010, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) hosted the 5 World Urban Forum (WUF), an event that has been organised by the United Nations Habitat programme every two…
Between 25 and 27 April 2010, the city of Chicago will host the next UCLG Executive Bureau and an Extraordinary General Assembly in order to review the statutes of the…
After the earthquake in Haiti last January, many cities and local government associations have mobilised in support of the country´s reconstruction process. UCLG has created a…
The CSIPD is making progress on the creation of the International Observatory on Local Social Inclusion Policies. The Observatory has 15 innovative policies available for…
On 19 February, Saint-Denis hosted a preparatory meeting for the 7th Conference on the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City, which will take place…
The photomontage produced by the ETCS Co-operative (Barcelona) of the working seminar involving the CSIPD member cities at the 2009 Annual Meeting, which took place in…