Photo: ENEL Peru The scurity of our habitat defenders is in jeopardy. States and big business try to stop people who, despite being under threat, speak out in defense of the right to land, housing and right to the city. Today, 10th of December, marks the 71st...
We, social movements, civil society and local governments’ organizations are committed to social justice through the promotion, defense and fulfillment of all human rights related to habitat, including the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Land and the Right to...
A vision from urbanism and territorial planning The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Henri Lefebvre's "The Right to the City" seemed to us, for the magazine Crítica Urbana, an appropriate...
By HIC Habitat International Coalition Declaration on the occasion of the Human Rights Day At Paris, 67 years ago today, UN Member states affirmed that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That 1st article of the Universal Declaration of...
Every year on 10 December, the world celebrates Human Rights Day, the very day when, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This year’s Human Rights Day slogan is “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for...
Since 2020, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C)has been leading a collective learning process that has culminated in the development of a series of seven thematic papers dedicated to deepening some of the Right to the City components as well as key...
