In the last three decades, Latin America has played a key role in the debate and struggle for the Right to the City, being the region also a pioneer in experiences of legal recognition of this right and the formulation of public policies aimed at the implementation of...
1. The Evolution of Human Rights for the Right to the City 1.1. The Concept of Urban Rights in the Popular Amendment on Urban Reform The concept of urban rights was included as a core element of the Urban Reform’s thinking which emerged during Brazil’s process...
The choice of inhabitants at the HLPF in New York: being g-local for the Right to the City facing the New Urban Agenda. New York, July 2018. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals the IAI, HIC and other international...
The Right to the City is a collective demand and agreement on the need to implement the Global Agendas for Sustainable Development with a human rights approach. "In his book "The Invisible Cities", Italo Calvino asked this question in a work dedicated to urban spaces,...
The approval of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), as a result of the Habitat III Conference (Quito, 2016), certainly represents an advance for the recognition of the right to the city by international organizations and countries. But this step alone is not enough to...
With the end of the successful advocacy campaign for the recognition of the Right to the City by the United Nations Habitat III negotiation process and the New Urban Agenda, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C)* comes to the end of a busy and fruitful...
On October 20th, the Global Platform for the Right to the City hosted the discussion "How to Implement the R2C?" at the Next City's World Stage, with the participation of the audience and facilitated by Rodrigo Faria (Pólis Institute). "The World Stage provided us...
Habitat3 – The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – took place in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17 – 20, 2016, and launched the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The New Urban Agenda consists of 175 paragraphs that outline global standards...
