"People may live in the same city, but only few can enjoy it fully: a lifetime wasted on long commutes, women fearing dark streets, discriminatory public spaces, scarce green areas, segregated neighborhoods, and profit above life. These violations of our collective...
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First episode of #SupportRight2City is released
The Global Platform for The Right to the City released the first episode of the #SupportRight2City series campaign. Watch the video here. The short video of 3 minutes, with no dialogues, shows through images a parallel of two women that live in the same city. Entitled...
Fresh draft of the New Urban Agenda was released after PrepCom3 in Surabaya
PrepCom3 finished last Wednesday in Surabaya, Indonesia, where the final negotiations around the New Urban Agenda took place in the final formal talks on the calendar ahead of the October summit. The first draft of the New Urban Agenda was released in May, and for the...
Global Platform for Right to the City hosts the Asia Regional Meeting II
Global Platform for Right to the City ‘Asia Regional Meeting II’ 22 & 23 July, 2016, Hotel Santika Premiere Gubeng Surabaya, Indonesia. The Global Platform for Right to the City stems from the need to promote, update, and systemize the Right to the City concepts...
Global Platform for Right to the City hosts the second Asia Regional Meeting
The meeting will address the concept, principles and the strategic components of the Right to the City; the Perspectives of Right to the City in the Asia Region; and the needed human rights approach for a New Habitat Agenda coming from Habitat III. Access the complete...
Public Statement defending The Right to the City is delivered at intergovernmental negotiations on the New Urban Agenda in NYC
Lorena Zárate, President of HIC (Habitat International Coalition), and members of The Global Platform for the Right to the City, attended at the Informal Intergovernmental Meetings on June 27th - July 1st 2016, UN, New York, and delivered the following Statement....
Right to the City in HABITAT III – Official Statements
This document was prepared to support the process of informal hearings with stakeholders on the New Urban Agenda, focusing on how the Right to the City appears in official documents. The analysis considered the documents that supported the Zero Draft Zero of the NUA,...
Event in NYC discusses differences between Right to the City and Cities for All in the New Urban Agenda
The Global Platform Right to the City with Ford Foundation and UCLG are organizing an event about the Right to the City in the New Urban Agenda. The event will take place at Ford Foundation, New York City, Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at 8-10am. The “right to the city”...
Right to the City is widely supported in the informal hearings of UN
The adoption of the Right to the City in New Urban Agenda was advocated in all informal hearings preparatory to Habitat III (United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development), which took place on June 6th and 7th (UN, New York). Yesterday (8)...
“What’s the right to the city?”
The present document, organized by the Platform with the the support of Eva Garcia Chueca, attemps to provide a clear and easy understanding of the right to the city in view of enriching the drafting process of the New Urban Agenda. Enter here the document "Whats the...
