The GPR2C will participate in the 2021 High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development (6-15th July) to bring an urgent appeal to the United Nations and all international, regional, national and local institutions and civil society organizations to renew their...
SDGs
Campaigns
The Right to the City at the High-Level Political Forum
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the core United Nations platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The theme of this year's edition is "Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and...
News
2024: our year in review
2024 GPR2C’s Year in Review: Celebrating 10 years fighting for the Right to the City! Dear friends, 2024 marks the 10th year anniversary of the Global Platform for the Right to the City. We celebrate this milestone in a time characterized by a delicate global context...
Right to the City Initiatives Facing COVID-19
The pandemic finds us at a time of crisis of the neoliberal system and climate emergency, further aggravating the health, social and economic situation worldwide. All over the world, civil society and local governments are demonstrating leadership in the response of the crises, developing both emergency responses to the most urgent needs and initiatives that move towards the needed structural transformation. Strengthening horizontal and democratic collaboration between actors and institutions (government, communities, civil society) and at different scales (neighbourhood, city, national, international) must be at the core of the response to these global challenges.
The GPR2C releases a policy paper on the Right to the City for the UCLG Congress 2019
The GPR2C is proud to present the Policy Paper on the Right to the City it has been preparing for the 6th Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) to take place along the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders on 11-15 November 2019 in Durban, South...
The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”
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,...
Publications
Policy Paper on the Right to the City for the UCLG Congress 2019
The document, prepared by the GPR2C for the 6th Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), focuses on asseritng that to implement the SDG´s in their totality it is fundamental to apply the Right to the City framework. This is because the Right to the City...
“Right to the city agenda, For the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda”
Events
Summit of the Future 2024
The General Assembly decided that the Summit of the Future would take place in September 2024, building on the 2023 SDG Summit, and that its outcome would be an intergovernmental negotiated, action-oriented Pact for the Future, comprising a chapeau and five chapters...
Monitoramento do Direito à Cidade e ODS nas Políticas Municipais
Da relevância de indicadores sobre o indicadores sobre o direito à cidade para a implementação e acompanhamento das Agenda Global 2030 – ODS e Nova Agenda Urbana por meio do desenvolvimento de políticas municipais, pois os indicadores foram construídos a partir dos...
(Postponed) Generation Equality Forum
Source: UN Women In light of the current global COVID-19 situation, the Generation Equality Forum is posponed until the first semester of 2021. More information on the revised convening will be available in this page. The Generation Equality Forum is a civil...
Open Session. Right to the City and the International Agendas: African realities and perspectives
The session will be a debate between representatives from local governments, researchers and civil society within Africities. It will explore how the Right to the City is understood in the African context, the different ways in which it is implemented on the ground as...