By Citiscope What follows is a month-by-month breakdown of important events in four interlocking global discussions, those around Financing for Development (FFD), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris climate summit (COP 21) and the Habitat III cities...
Habitat III
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UN approves Habitat III participation rules
GPR2C Team (*) The United Nations General Assembly on 22 December 2015, during its seventieth session, adopted the resolution on the ‘Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United...
2015 Human Rights Day: call for the inclusion of the Right to the City in Habitat III
By UCLG Thursday, 10 December 2015 In the context of the preparatory process towards Habitat III and inspired by the occasion of Human Rights Day 2015, we, local and regional governments, call for the inclusion of the Right to the City as the cornerstone of the New...
Montreal Declaration includes claims of Global Platform for the Right to the City
GPR2C Staff The Montreal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas brought several advances to debate around Right to the City, especially about the New Urban Agenda building. The document was prepared during the latest Habitat III Thematic Meeting, held in Montréal...
What room for the Right to the City in Habitat III?
Rafaella Lima Alexandre Apsan Frediani Barbara Lipietz Introduction How will the Right to the City be incorporated into Habitat III? How will Habitat III remain accountable to the commitments of Habitat I and II and build new commitments towards more...
Habitat III ‘policy units’ experts announced
By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) NEW YORK — Following two months of delay, the organizers of next year’s Habitat III summit on urbanization have made public the list of 200 individuals who will make up key thematic expert groups for the drafting of the New Urban Agenda,...
The Right to the City: the needed cornerstone for the Habitat III Agenda
Isabel Pascual, November 2015 Habitat III is a crucial moment to reformulate the life in human settlements. In that context, the Right to the City is a critical tool to ensure that all inhabitants have a place where to live with dignity, in sustainable, democratic and...
