Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, dealing with the climate crisis and rising global inequality. Local governments from across the world are increasingly committed to the advance of #HumanRights and the #RightToTheCity. However, the...
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How to think about Women’s Right to the City?
March 8th is a day to commemorate women's struggles around the world. The resistances that have taken place and those that still need to be sustained. This new 8th of March brings us together again, amplifying voices to which we add and raise the Women's Right to the...
The GPR2C opens a news inbox for its member organisations and allies
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C), among other objectives, aims to be a space for the dissemination of relevant news on the Right to the City. We are here to make it easier for all GPR2C members and allies to publish, in a more agile way, on the...
The GPR2C launches a LinkedIn page
We are now on LinkedIn! The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has launched a new page on LinkedIn. Joining this professional social network will facilitate strengthening the links between the platform's members and its global partners, and promoting...
The GPR2C joins Ciudad Constituyente in Chile
This year will mark a turning point in the history of Chile and the world. The Constitutional Process approved in October 2020 represents a historic opportunity for Chile to build, for the first time in democracy and on a parity basis, a New Constitution that...
Right to the City News-December 2020
We have just released the December issue of our quarterly newsletter. There you can find a summary of the most important activities and campaigns we have carried out over the last three months, as well as upcoming events and other information of interest. At this...
Connecting across Habitat Rights and the Right to the City
Civil society and local governments join forces with UN Special Rapporteurs in a first roundtable to discuss possible paths for joint work On Friday, December 4th, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C), Habitat International Coalition...
Towards building cities for life
Let us abandon the idea of profit and put the social function of urban space back into practice *Article originally published in Spanish in the section Seres Urbanos of El País At the end of a year of so many challenges and transformations, we have celebrated Human...
#RightToTheCity Campaign Impacts during Urban October
In this Urban October, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) was very active around the campaign Cities for Dignity, not for profit! This campaign aimed at putting pressure on all spheres of government to take action for long-term structural changes...
The creation of the GPR2C’s Thematic Papers
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) is organizing a process of collective learning on the Right to the City. This process is being carried out through the development of seven thematic papers on the perspective and connection of the Right to the City...