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...
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
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UN Rapporteur Recommends Legal Recognition of Right to the City for Public Spaces
This year, GPR2C participated in a survey conducted by the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, as part of evidence collection for a report addressing the importance of public spaces for the exercise of cultural rights and the challenges which must...
Call for Proposals: Public Spaces and Right to the City
Do you have an initiative related to public space occupation and right to the city? We want to talk with you! The Pólis Institute, GPR2C member, launches a call for proposals for collectives, organizations and social movements acting on the Metropolitan Region of São...
GPR2C responds to the Questionnaire from the Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights!
HIC and GPR2C submitted its responses to Karima Bennoune's questionnaire, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, for its upcoming report to the General Assembly: Cultural rights and public space. This report will explore how actors from...
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ODESC
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,...
CISCSA
Description: Centro de Intercambios y Servicios Cono Sur, Argentina (CISCSA) is a founding member of the HIC Women and Habitat Network, and a member of HIC since its inception. The NGO has been working for more than three decades on housing and habitat rights issues....
Ciudad Común
Description: Ciudad Común is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to promote a critical perspective of urban and housing studies in Chile and Latin America. As a think tank, the Corporación Ciudad Común is composed of academics, activists, and public...
IBDU
Description: The Brazilian Institute of Urban Law (IBDU) is a non-profit association constituted by lawyers, urban planners and other professionals involved in the defense of the Right to the City through the research, advocacy and...