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Impacts of the #RightToTheCity Campaign at the #HLPF2019

Impacts of the #RightToTheCity Campaign at the #HLPF2019

In recent months, the Global Platform for the Right to the City has organised communication workshops to improve our advocacy capacity. The main objective has been to provide training to help us be more effective in the campaigns of our respective groups, initiatives,...

Guide to digital advocacy campaigns

Guide to digital advocacy campaigns

During the month of May we held two theoretical and practical training workshops on digital advocacy campaigns on issues related (in the broadest sense) to the Global Platform for the Right to the City. Nota de Sergio Salgado, communication consultant of Pantheon Work...

Elections and Agenda for the Right to the City

Elections and Agenda for the Right to the City

The Agenda for the Right to the City is a repository that included more than 600 ideas,proposals, and actions from social movements and organisations for the 2019 municipal elections in Catalonia and the Spanish State. This initiative has been promoted by Observatori...

European Right to Housing and Right to the City Initiatives- June 2019

European Right to Housing and Right to the City Initiatives- June 2019

June 2019 opened with major movements in Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) activities at the international scale. High on our agenda has been connecting the current international fight back against the financialisation of housing to local efforts...

The GPR2C at the First Session of the UN-Habitat Assembly

The GPR2C at the First Session of the UN-Habitat Assembly

  25th– 31stMay 2019 The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) participated in the 1st UN-Habitat Assembly to bring the voice of its members expressed in the collective declaration on the UN-Habitat 2020-2025 strategic plan. Note by Frederick...

Call for Proposals: Public Spaces and Right to the City

Call for Proposals: Public Spaces and Right to the City

Do you have an initiative related to public space occupation and right to the city? We want to talk with you! The Pólis Institute, GPR2C member, launches a call for proposals for collectives, organizations and social movements acting on the Metropolitan Region of São...

Call for signatures! European Citizens’ initiative Housing for All

Call for signatures! European Citizens’ initiative Housing for All

On June 5, UN Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, launched the European Citizen's Initiative, Housing for All. About 82 million people in Europe are overburdened by housing costs. Homelessness is rising, and displacement of all kinds is becoming...

Guide to digital advocacy campaigns

Guide to digital advocacy campaigns

During the month of May we held two theoretical and practical training workshops on digital advocacy campaigns on issues related (in the broadest sense) to the Global Platform for the Right to the City. Note by Sergio Salgado, communication consultant of Pantheon Work...

Questionnaire from the Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights

Questionnaire from the Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights

Karima Bennoune, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, is seeking contributions to an ongoing study on “Cultural rights and public space”. This report explores  how actors from across the cultural ecosystem access and use public spaces, identify the...