United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), New York City July 9-18, 2018
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development . It has a central role in the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level....
Latin American Planning Workshop of the Global Platform for the Right to the City
The Latin American regional planning workshop of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) took place on 15 and 16 April in Lima, Peru. This workshop was attended by 24 organizations from 8 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,...
Building 4Humanity Resilient Design Competition. Marielle Franco Community-Design Award
The 8th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR) (to be held in Lisbon between 14 and 16 November 2018) is organizing a very special award: the Marielle Franco Community-Design Award. This award pays a tribute to Marielle Franco, sociologist and social...
Right to the City Conference in Barcelona
This cycle of debates provides the occasion for an open debate among people from different parts of the world that are involved with the struggle for defending the right to affordable and adequate housing. On the occasion of the 50th year anniversary of the...
How the real estate financial model is harming us | Leilani Farha | TEDxQueensU
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Salvador, the Inhabitants at the 2018 WSF for the R-Existences, who Create and Transform
Article by: Soha Ben Slama, International Alliance of Inhabitants Within the framework of the WSF 2018, the IAI (International Alliance of Inhabitants) presented the R-Existences in Solidarity at the Brazilian session of the International Tribunal of Evictions, the...
Challenging neoliberal urbanism through the right to the city: reflections from the World Social Forum 2018
This article presents a personal account of some activities linked to the right to the city at the World Social Forum 2018. It explores the process of urban extractivism under neoliberal urbanism and some strategies of resistance by deploying tools for collective...
The Global Platform for the Right to the City at the World Social Forum
The Right to the City as an integral part of the discussions The Right to the City has been very relevant for the World Social Forum 2018 (WSF2018), held in Salvador de Bahia from 13 to 17 March. This right was one of the thematic axes of the Forum and central...
Paper. Public policies for food sovereignty
The first issue of the ‘Think Piece Series Food for Thought’ comes out looking into the political significance of leveraging public policies in support of food sovereignty. Public policies play a determinant role in shaping the future of agricultural and food systems:...
Join the e-Discussion: “From global to local: supporting sustainable and resilient societies in urban and rural communities”
The electronic discussion (e-Discussion), to be held from 26 March to 8 April 2018, is coordinated by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The purpose of the e-Discussion is to engage...
