Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Ariel Tutillo on Unsplash Because for the members and allies of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) it is a great responsibility, even if the obligation lies with States. It is a great responsibility because thanks to the...
*Article originally published on RIPESS website. RIPESS’ contribution to the long road to success. Yvon Poirier // 18 april 2023 Today’s adoption by the United Nations General of resolution A/77/L.60 is a very significant achievement for our movement that has promoted...
In the last three decades, Latin America has played a key role in the debate and struggle for the Right to the City, being the region also a pioneer in experiences of legal recognition of this right and the formulation of public policies aimed at the implementation of...
In order to face the emergency and collectively imagine a post-pandemic future, it is necessary to generate and consolidate a global network of solidarity and empathy. With this in mind, the partner organizations of the COiNVITE project have launched the...
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 choice of inhabitants at the HLPF in New York: being g-local for the Right to the City facing the New Urban Agenda. New York, July 2018. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals the IAI, HIC and other international...
The approval of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), as a result of the Habitat III Conference (Quito, 2016), certainly represents an advance for the recognition of the right to the city by international organizations and countries. But this step alone is not enough to...
With the end of the successful advocacy campaign for the recognition of the Right to the City by the United Nations Habitat III negotiation process and the New Urban Agenda, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C)* comes to the end of a busy and fruitful...
On October 20th, the Global Platform for the Right to the City hosted the discussion "How to Implement the R2C?" at the Next City's World Stage, with the participation of the audience and facilitated by Rodrigo Faria (Pólis Institute). "The World Stage provided us...
Habitat3 – The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – took place in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17 – 20, 2016, and launched the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The New Urban Agenda consists of 175 paragraphs that outline global standards...
