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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eduard Cabré, GPR2C International Relations Officer. Right to the City activists from around the world gathered in New York City July 14-16 to advance the Global Platform for the Right to the City's Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2021. This meeting is the second...
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...
