On August 20, thousands of residents of Wxlacodji beach community in Cotonou, Nigeria, were forcibly evicted from their homes. Served notice of just 72 hours, the inhabitants of this waterfront community were thrown to the streets with no alternative arrangements...
Young people are clear that it is necessary to fulfill the right to the city and radically change the way we live in our habitat Children's mural in Honduran cooperative Covimarl. Article by Isabel Pascual International Youth Day is in contemporary times a day of...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
