Global mapping of civil society collaborations and initiatives against COVID-19 in popular neighbourhoods In order to face the emergency and collectively imagine a post-pandemic future, it is necessary to generate and consolidate a global network of solidarity and...
Photo : Bahía Flores for CISCSA I want to contribute with 4 main points in relation to today’s topics: violence against women and their health is part of the Right to the City and Human Rights. Women's right to the city and to diversity is political, and implies the...
Call for contributions to UN Special Rapporteurs report on COVID-19 and human rights Source: OHCHR UN Human Rights bodies special procedures have taken various initiatives in relation to COVID-19 with the objective to stress the importance of adopting a human rights...
Article by Lorena Zárate, originally published at Minim There is no doubt about it: the current global pandemic offers some acute warnings and delivers several fundamental messages to our societies. First and foremost, it suddenly and simultaneously focuses our...
Em 2020, o Instituto Pólis retoma o projeto "Escola da Cidadania", uma série de formações e conversas voltadas a temas centrais do Direito à Cidade. Até que o projeto possa ser lançado de forma presencial, ele será desenvolvido por meio de webnários semanais...
Official launch of activities related to the first edition of the Cameroon Cities and Homes Fair on World Day for the Right to the City (photo. Codas Caritas Douala) In collaboration with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (MINHDU) of Cameroon, the...
The session will be a debate between representatives from local governments, researchers and civil society within Africities. It will explore how the Right to the City is understood in the African context, the different ways in which it is implemented on the ground as...
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018 to Saturday, September 22, 2018 Location: Harvard Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) There are very few signs that slums will transition out of the urban landscape in the foreseeable future. Even after more than...
Description: The Centre for Research, Documentation and Population Advice (CIDAP) is an institution founded on 15 November 1978, with the aim of working in urban areas where poverty was and is the common factor that makes access to economic and social rights slow and...
Description: The International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI)/USA Canada Alliance of Inhabitants (USACAI) fight against evictions worldwide. We do this through World Zero Evictions in the month of October and Tribunals on Evictions Mission: On September 12th 2003,...
Description: Asamblea de Unidad Cantonal de Montufar (AUCM) is an organized civil society group that promotes the active participation of citizens in the public sphere for advocacy within public affairs Mission: To be a model district in promoting the active...
Description: The Observatory DESC (ODESC) is a human rights center that concentrates its efforts on dismantling the devalued perception of social rights - the right to housing, work, education, health, and food - in relation to other rights considered fundamental,...
