Applications open for Al-Haq International Law Summer School program 2020 | 1-14 June 2020
Original source: AL-HAQ Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Sixth International Law Summer School for professionals, legal researchers, post-graduates and academics in the fields of international law and human rights. The summer...
Urgent appeal: Egyptian Human rights defender Patrick George detained and tortured
This article is an adaptation of Front Line Defenders' urgent appeal, with additional information from Aljazeera and Amnesty International Italy On 7 February 2020, human rights defender Patrick George was detained at Cairo airport and taken into custody by the...
Special Rapporteur’s guidelines for the implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing
Source: Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, submits her final report with Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing. The document seeks to respond to global housing conditions...
New article: “De-Colonising Planning Education?” by Urban Know
Image credits: Aboubacarkhoraa, via Wikicommons Source: Urban KNOW The Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality, a global consortium of researchers and partners across 13 institutions, focusing on nine countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, has just released a...
New book: “Advancing urban rights. Equality and diversity in the city”
Original source: CIDOB How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the “right to the city” be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilisations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New...
Right to the City News December 2019
We have just released the December issue of our quarterly newsletter. There you can find a summary of the most important activities and campaigns we have carried out over the last three months, as well as upcoming events and other information of interest. At this...
Frente al inmovilismo, la sociedad civil no espera
*Article only available in Spanish Todas las protestas tienen en común la toma del espacio público, el cuestionamiento del sistema, la proclamación de que el pueblo tiene que ser líder y protagonista de las decisiones que le afectan directamente. Artículo de...
A critical look inside COP25
Account by Alvaro Puertas, Secretary General of Habitat International Coalition (HIC) who represented HIC and the GPR2C at the conference The United Nations walled conferences are too similar to each other and increasingly resemble the tourism congress fairs and...
The GPR2C joins in the 6th UCLG Congress in Durban
Between November 11-15, mayors and local and regional representatives from around the World gathered in Durban, South Africa to attend the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) World Summit. For the first time in the history of UCLG, the Summit included thematic...
The GPR2C stands up for the defenders of our human rights related to habitat
The Habitat International Coalition (HIC), its Latin American office (HIC-AL) and the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) have come together to promote an online communications campaign to draw attention to the persecution suffered by human rights...
