UN Human Rights bodies special procedures have been developing different efforts to stress the importance of adopting a human rights approach in addressing the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond issuing a series of joint press releases and statements, a group of different...
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...
Source: United Nations and Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Every year, on March 21st, we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This date marks the day...
1. The Evolution of Human Rights for the Right to the City 1.1. The Concept of Urban Rights in the Popular Amendment on Urban Reform The concept of urban rights was included as a core element of the Urban Reform’s thinking which emerged during Brazil’s process...
The summer’s biggest blockbuster was not on the screen, but in the streets of Atlanta. Over 300 tenant organizers, policy makers and their allies converged for the Homes for All #RenterPower2018 Assembly organized by the Right to the City Alliance (USA). This historic...
The Right to the City is a collective demand and agreement on the need to implement the Global Agendas for Sustainable Development with a human rights approach. "In his book "The Invisible Cities", Italo Calvino asked this question in a work dedicated to urban spaces,...
The 8th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR) (to be held in Lisbon between 14 and 16 November 2018) is organizing a very special award: the Marielle Franco Community-Design Award. This award pays a tribute to Marielle Franco, sociologist and social...
