Public Class – Urban Talk: The Right to the City
By Pólis Institute The Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo City, Brazil, will host the Public Class – Urban Talk: The Right to the City, on this upcomingSunday, 28. The aim is to create a space for dialogue, appropriation of public space and cultural expression. The...
A Needed Cornerstone for Habitat III: The Right to the City
By Isabel Pascual GPR2C Team Cities are territories with massive economic, environmental, political and cultural wealth and diversity, both actual and potential. But the development models implemented in most countries today tend to concentrate income and power,...
Urban Social Forum releases its event report
GPR2C Team The Indonesian organization Kota Kita, one of GPR2C – Global Platform for the Right to the City partners, released the 3rd Urban Social Forum event report. This edition occurred on 19th December 2015 in Surubaya, Indonesia. According to the entity, over...
GPR2C represents the right to the city at experts meeting
GPR2C Team The GPR2C (Global Platform for the Right to the City) members are participanting of the second Habitat III Experts Meeting Policy Unit 1: Right to the City for all, from 27th to 28th January in Bogota, Colombia. The event is focused on the draft of the New...
Calendar: Toward Habitat III
By Citiscope What follows is a month-by-month breakdown of important events in four interlocking global discussions, those around Financing for Development (FFD), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris climate summit (COP 21) and the Habitat III cities...
UN approves Habitat III participation rules
GPR2C Team (*) The United Nations General Assembly on 22 December 2015, during its seventieth session, adopted the resolution on the ‘Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United...
Kota Kita Discusses Urban Policy for Vulnerable Riverbank Communities
GPR2C Team (with Kota Kita Blog informations) The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has posted a blog taken from an extended interview with Kota Kita’s Director, John Taylor, about urban policies designed to reduce vulnerability for...
Indonesia hosts Asia Meeting of the Global Platform for the Right to the City
GPR2C Team The city of Surabaya, Indonesia, hosts the Asia Meeting of GPR2C (Global Platform for the Right to the City) on this upcoming Sunday (December 20). The event is held in UNTAG (Universitas 17 Augustus 1945). The meeting organized by GPR2C continues the...
Habitat International Coalition Declaration on the occasion of the Human Rights Day
By HIC Habitat International Coalition Declaration on the occasion of the Human Rights Day At Paris, 67 years ago today, UN Member states affirmed that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That 1st article of the Universal Declaration of...
2015 Human Rights Day: call for the inclusion of the Right to the City in Habitat III
By UCLG Thursday, 10 December 2015 In the context of the preparatory process towards Habitat III and inspired by the occasion of Human Rights Day 2015, we, local and regional governments, call for the inclusion of the Right to the City as the cornerstone of the New...
