Note by Armand Nouwe Since February 2019, the Diocesan Committee for Social and Charitable Activities of the Archdiocese of Douala (CODAS Caritas Douala) has been carrying out a project to promote and protect the right to adequate housing by supporting the improvement...
The 2019 High-Level Political Forum(HLPF) took place from the 9th to 18th of July under the theme “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. As in previous years, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) was present both in New...
The city of Lima occupies 0.22% of the national territory and concentrates approximately one third of the population of Peru. Globally, cities occupy 2% of the territory and concentrate 55% of the population. This population concentration presents great challenges...
On August 20, thousands of residents of Wxlacodji beach community in Cotonou, Nigeria, were forcibly evicted from their homes. Served notice of just 72 hours, the inhabitants of this waterfront community were thrown to the streets with no alternative arrangements...
Young people are clear that it is necessary to fulfill the right to the city and radically change the way we live in our habitat Children's mural in Honduran cooperative Covimarl. Article by Isabel Pascual International Youth Day is in contemporary times a day of...
In recent months, the Global Platform for the Right to the City has organised communication workshops to improve our advocacy capacity. The main objective has been to provide training to help us be more effective in the campaigns of our respective groups, initiatives,...
During the month of May we held two theoretical and practical training workshops on digital advocacy campaigns on issues related (in the broadest sense) to the Global Platform for the Right to the City. Nota de Sergio Salgado, communication consultant of Pantheon Work...
The Agenda for the Right to the City is a repository that included more than 600 ideas,proposals, and actions from social movements and organisations for the 2019 municipal elections in Catalonia and the Spanish State. This initiative has been promoted by Observatori...
Le Programme pour le Droit à la Ville est un référentiel qui comprend plus de 600 propositions émises par des entités et des mouvements sociaux dans le cadre des élections municipales de 2019, en Catalogne et dans tout le pays. Note de l'équipe Observatori DESC Cette...
June 2019 opened with major movements in Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) activities at the international scale. High on our agenda has been connecting the current international fight back against the financialisation of housing to local efforts...
