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The next edition of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF 2019) of Gwangju (South Korea) will be held from 30 September to 3 October 2019. The metropolitan government of…
Source: Peripheral Cities Forum of UCLG (FALP) Local authorities present at the Seminar “Right to the City and Access to Metropolitan Areas for All” held in the Palestinian city…
Last 2 and 3 July, our Committee and its co-chairs of Seine Saint Denis and Plaine Commune organized an international seminar on “Inclusive and Solidary Olympic Games”. Held in…
In the framework of the MC2CM project, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, in partnership with UNICEF, are organizing an online…
Source: UCLG On 25 and 26 June, the Mediterranean City to City Migration (MC2CM) project brought together more than seventy participants in a peer learning event on mechanisms for…
More than 20 local governments from all over the world took part in the meeting of “Local Governments for Human Rights” organized last 17 June by the Office of the United Nations…
The Swedish city of Umeå hosted from 10 to 15 June the first edition of the “Local Democracy Academy”: An international event organized by the International Centre for Local…
From May 31 to June 3, the city of Geneva hosted the annual meeting of the “CoHabitat network”: A civil society initiative gathering community-led housing organizations and allies…
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights have the pleasure to invite…
(Source: IOPD – International Observatory on Participatory Democracy) The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) invites local and regional governments…
(Source: UCLG Committee on Culture – Agenda 21 Culture) The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights current mandate holder, Karima Bennoune, will address…
(Source: UCLG Learning) After a long process of listening to the members’ demands, UCLG Learning has launched its new Website. This site will bring UCLG Learning to the…
A representative from the Committee’s participated last March in a workshop held in Medellín on transmedia narratives and story-telling with a focus on slum upgrading. This…
Image Source Steffen Brinamnn (Szs) Bologna is a city of 390,000 inhabitants. As a campus city, it is home to around 35,000 students each year. Tourism is on the rise, and so is…
The 19th IOPD conference will be held next December 7 to 10 in Iztapalapa, Mexico. The concept note of the event is now available online. Soon the organization will launch a…