On the occasion of the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, the Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, the Global Platform for the Right to the City, and the UCLG Committee on Human...
Quality public spaces and services
A city/human settlement with quality public spaces and services that enhance social interactions and political participation, promote sociocultural expressions, embrace diversity, and foster social cohesion; a city/human settlement where public spaces and services contribute to building safer cities (especially for women and girls) and to meeting the needs of its inhabitants (especially those related to livelihoods).Quality public spaces and services
Events
UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26)
The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK. On 28 May 2020, the COP Bureau decided that it would take place from 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK. The change...
The GPR2C at the World Social Forum 2021
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) will participate, from January 23th to January 31st, in the World Social Forum 2021. The 20th-anniversary edition will be virtual due to the pandemic. The event program and the daily self-organized assemblies will...
Webinars: GPR2C Thematic Papers
For the remainder of 2020, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) is embarked on the preparation of three thematic documents to deepen the key conceptual and programmatic contents related to the right to the city. These documents are intended to...
Conversation with United Nations Special Rapporteurs
Along with Habitat International Coalition, the GPR2C is co-organizing a conversation with United Nations Special Rapporteurs (SRs) focused on how to improve synergies between their work and that of civil society and grassroots organizations. A series of SRs will be...
Online course “Decoding the Right to the City”
Registrations are closed now! Thank you all for your interest! The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) aims to contribute to the emergence of new emancipatory utopias and social pacts for a better future in all human settlements, giving visibility...
Webinar : Creating accessible and inclusive public spaces with/for resilient communities
Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash Creating accessible and inclusive public spaces with/for resilient communities Thursday June 18, 1.00 - 2.30 pm CET >>> Registration Nelson Saule Junior, from the Global Platform for the Right to the city, will be...
(Webinar) With everything up for grabs: The Green New Deal(s) the world needs now
While the coronavirus crisis emphasises the need to rethink the commodification of many sectors as well as the role and shape of public services and public utilities, the concept of a Green New Deal conveys new ideas regarding the place, role and form of public...