By HIC Habitat International Coalition Declaration on the occasion of the Human Rights Day At Paris, 67 years ago today, UN Member states affirmed that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That 1st article of the Universal Declaration of...
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2015 Human Rights Day: call for the inclusion of the Right to the City in Habitat III
By UCLG Thursday, 10 December 2015 In the context of the preparatory process towards Habitat III and inspired by the occasion of Human Rights Day 2015, we, local and regional governments, call for the inclusion of the Right to the City as the cornerstone of the New...
GPR2C participates at COP 21 in Paris
GPR2C Team (*) Entities as FIAN, Friends of the Earth, FPH, HIC, ODESC, UCLG and WIEGO, from GPR2C- Global Platfotrm for the Right to the City are participating at COP21 and the People's Climate Summit in Paris, France, until December 10. Follow below the GPR2C...
PHOTOS: Inhabitants session during the Africities Summit 15
PHOTOS: The Regional Meeting in Africa – 2015
GPR2C promotes local debate on Right to the City prior to Africities
The GPR2C – Global Platform for the Right to the City is promoting an important debate about the implementation of the Right to the City on a regional perspective in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 28th, 2015. The Regional Meeting in Africa will be held at...
GPR2C News – September/October 2015
The Right to the City: the needed cornerstone for the Habitat III Agenda Habitat III is a crucial moment to reformulate the life in human settlements. In that context, the Right to the City is a critical tool to ensure that all inhabitants have a place where to...
Montreal Declaration includes claims of Global Platform for the Right to the City
GPR2C Staff The Montreal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas brought several advances to debate around Right to the City, especially about the New Urban Agenda building. The document was prepared during the latest Habitat III Thematic Meeting, held in Montréal...
What room for the Right to the City in Habitat III?
Rafaella Lima Alexandre Apsan Frediani Barbara Lipietz Introduction How will the Right to the City be incorporated into Habitat III? How will Habitat III remain accountable to the commitments of Habitat I and II and build new commitments towards more...
Habitat III ‘policy units’ experts announced
By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) NEW YORK — Following two months of delay, the organizers of next year’s Habitat III summit on urbanization have made public the list of 200 individuals who will make up key thematic expert groups for the drafting of the New Urban Agenda,...
