The following section offers background information on the process of recognition of local governments’ role in the protection and promotion of human rights by the United Nations…
The World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) is held annually in the South Korean city of Gwangju. After holding more than 10 consecutive editions, it has consolidated as a…
Over the last years, numerous Indonesian local and national stakeholders have taken an increasingly prominent role in global human rights city discussions. Spearheading the…
The Policy Council on the Right to the City and Inclusive Territories met last 9 February, gathering most of its renovated local government membership and co-presidency for the…
In the past months, UCLG and its civil society partners from the Global Platform for the Right to the City and the Habitat International Coalition pioneered another line of…
Source: Conseil Départemental de la Seine Saint Denis.
The guide « Ensemble pour l’égalité des droits » (All together in favour of rights equality) is aimed at all inhabitants,…
The impact of transnational corporations can be felt in many key aspects of city life. With no doubt, local governments are well aware of its relevance for residents’ access to…
The GOLD VI Report will address the inequality crisis and its multiple dimensions as experienced at the local level. It will do so to explore meaningful pathways developed by…
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights is pleased to share with you its Action Plan for 2021, containing the main thematic priorities and…
Linda Voortman has been the Alderman (Co-Mayor) of Utrecht responsible for social affairs, diversity and municipal organization since 2018. In this position, she joined the Co-…
Valencia has become the latest city to join the “Cities for Adequate Housing” Declaration in 2020, as announced by the city’s Social Services and Housing Councillor Isabel Lozano…
Exploring rooms for maneuver at local governments’ hands to implement the Cities for Adequate Housing Declaration and supporting young researchers in their academic projects on…
The “Call of the 14th November” represents a landmark political initiative by municipal authorities in France. Elected local government representatives from different political…
Various representatives of the UCLG-CSIPDHR co-presidency took part in several statutory events of the UCLG World Council held on 9-13 November in an integrated setting in…
The 10th edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) was held from 7 to 10 October in an integrated setting, with sessions taking place both in Gwangju as well as…