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25/10/2023
As part of the «Human Rights 75» initiative to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, our Committee interviews the Global Platform for the Right to the…
23/11/2020
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…
17/05/2020
Across the world, many local governments have put in place emergency responses to housing-related challenges that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The potential…
20/12/2019
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy held on December 7, 8, 9 and 10 its Annual Conference in Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Hundreds of participants, both from…
06/08/2018
Our constituency lived a historical turning point last 15 and 16 July, when a group of major global cities brought to the UN a firm pledge for the Right to Housing in the form of …
16/07/2018
Last Sunday, 15 July, UCLG and its Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights co-organized a special session on the Right to Housing as a preview of…
06/11/2017
[Source: UCLG - Photo credits @UCLG/Mark Schardan] Local and regional leaders and housing policy experts met in Barcelona from 2-3 November to reaffirm their commitment to housing…
06/03/2017
Last Wednesday, Leilani Farha, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, presented her last report at the thirty-fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council (…
22/03/2016
Being satisfied that the issue of wealth distribution through taxation and the public and citizen control of the land and housing market are necessary to ensure the right to the…