Last November 22, our Committee and the Global Platform for the Right to the City organized the session “Right to the City and international agendas: African realities and perspectives” on the occasion of Africities: the meeting of African cities organized every three...
“The Transformative Cities award is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularise and share their experiences of building solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social,...
About 1 000 families from Sikato resettlement in Masvingo West constituency are facing an uncertain future after being served with seven-day eviction notices to vacate the land which they occupied at the height of the land reform programme in 2000. The families, from...
We, social movements, civil society and local governments’ organizations are committed to social justice through the promotion, defense and fulfillment of all human rights related to habitat, including the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Land and the Right to...
Monday, 26 November 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tomorrow We Go to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents Tomorrow the eNduduzweni branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo goes to Durban High Court as the eThekwini Municipality and KZN Department of...
The Right to the City movement expands and strengthens. From 28 to 31 October, the International Meeting for Equal Cities (EIpCI) was held in Buenos Aires. It was part of the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (PGDC), together with national and...
The Global Platform for the Right to the City was in Buenos Aires with organizations, movements and people, academics and local governments networks committed to territorial social justice on the occasion of the International Meeting for Equal Cities (EipCI). This...
A vision from urbanism and territorial planning The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Henri Lefebvre's "The Right to the City" seemed to us, for the magazine Crítica Urbana, an appropriate...
A City Center for All The aim of the exchange sessions organised on 2 and 7 June was to apprehend Marseille and its recent transformations through the writings of Henri Lefebvre and a powerful analysis of the Right to the City. The association Un Centre Ville Pour...
Henri Lefebvre, despite having made a decisive contribution to how we understand cities today, is an intellectual to whom little justice has been done. Almost three decades ago, on 29 June 1991, the philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre died in the French town of...
