Report Urban Land Conflicts and Evictions in Latin America and the Caribbean
General Description The Latin American and Caribbean Urban CSO Cluster, part of the Global Land Tools Network (GTLN), together with Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground Campaign and the Land Portal Foundation, launched an online debate on Urban Land Conflicts in Latin...
Submit your Social Economy iniciative at the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) 2018!
The deadline of the Call for Initiatives has been extended until March 23. This is your chance to contribute to this 4th edition of the Global Social Economy Forum, bringing together regional and local governments, Social Economy agents, civil society, universities...
União Nacional de Moradia Popular Participa do Forum Social Mundial em Salvador e se junta a milhares de vozes da resistência, por direitos e democracia!
O Fórum Social Mundial, realizado na cidade de Salvador Brasil, entre 13 e 17 de Março de 2018, com lema: Resistir é Criar, Resistir é Transformar, ocorreu no âmbito de uma grave crise social e política, de golpe à democracia no Brasil e em diversos países da América...
World Urban Forum 9 – Operationalizing the Right to the City: how small-scale projects contribute to the implementation of the NUA and the SDGs.
Implementing the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goes beyond government programs and initiatives. It requires everyone, at all levels of society, to act according to the principles of justice, inclusiveness, sustainability and...
Urgent actionGlobal Call for The World Day for the Right to the City: Stop Forced Evictions
October 31th 2017 - The World Day for the Right to the City: Stop Forced Evictions The Global Platform for the Right to the City members, friends and allies from all around the world, gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, Declare the 31th October of every year the World Day...
Global call for the Right to the City: Stop Forced Evictions
Nairobi, October 11th, 2017 The Global Platform for the Right to the City members, friends and allies from all around the world, gathered in Nairobi, make a global call for the right to the city, and the universal opposition to forced evictions and displacements....
Our Block, Our World: Views on the Global Platform from New York
Kazembe Balagun, Project manager at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. “Lorena Zarate of the Global Platform for the Right to the City joins with local homeless organization Picture the Homeless for an action calling for the creation of community land trusts on vacant land in...
Defending our cities in a “showcase Europe”
Irene Escorihuela, Observatori DESC Nowadays, European cities are facing enormous challenges. Social rights have suffered strong setbacks as a result of the economic crisis and its pro-austerity management. Civil and political rights are also threatened in this...
Quest for Right to the City in Asia
Paulista Surjadi, Kota Kita & Chandan Kumar, ActionAid India. Asia is the biggest and most populous continent, also home to some of the fastest growing countries in the world such as India, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The continent consists of 48 countries and...
African Struggles for the Right to the City
Allan Cain[1] & Agnes Midi[2] Africa has some of the world’s most unequal cities[3]. Informal settlements in African cities, and the struggles that are fought in their defense, are evidence of deep-rooted exclusion[4]. They have inherited colonial segregated...
