The workshop Implementing The Right to the City - Building Just, Inclusive, Democratic and Sustainable Cities took place on October 19 and 20 at PUCE, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. It was aimed at developing a better understanding of the conceptual...
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Habitat III Exhibition Stand of the Global Platform for the Right to the City
The activities at the Global Right-to-City Platform (GPR2C) stand at the official Habitat III exhibition were held at the National Assembly of Ecuador Pavilion and were made possible after several days of assembly and preparation by Polis Institute and its team...
Nelson Saule talks about the new challenges for the Global Platform for the Right to the City
During Habitat3 - the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development - that took place on October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, the New Urban Agenda (NUA - the Conference's final declaration) brought 175 paragraphs outlining the global standards for...
Member of the Global Platform for the Right to the City make comments to the Habitat3 UN conference
Interview with Magali Fricaudet, (Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights - UCLG); Sonia Maria Dias (WIEGO – Women In Informal Employment: Globalizing And Organizing); Anaclaudia Rossbach (Cities Alliance); and Jane Katz (Habitat for...
Main Results from the Convergence Assembly on the Right to the City – Habiat3
On October 19th, at UCE - Central University of Ecuador, the Convergence Assembly on the Right to the City Happened in the context of Habitat III - The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, held from October 17 - 20, 2016 in Quito,...
Habitat3 discuss the inclusion of The Right to the City in the New Urban Agenda
The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) held from 17 to 20 October 2016 in Quito, Equador, included, for the first time in history, the Right to the City in the official outcome document: the New Urban Agenda. From left...
Pólis Institute gives its final statement on Habitat3
"Quito 20 October Good morning; Thank you, Mr/Mrs Chair for the opportunity to address this distinguished audience. My name is Nelson Saule Júnior, speaking by Polis Institute on behalf of the Global Platform for the Right to the City - an action-oriented advocacy...
Stand 47 Agenda – Global Platform for the Right to the City
STAND 47 - The Global Platform for the Right to the City - Full Agenda Schedule Social Regulation of Real Estate Markets and Market Alternatives – follow up discussion | La regulación social de mercados inmobiliarios y Alternativas de Mercado - seguimiento a la...
NUA on the perspective of the Right to the City
The Global Platform for the Right to the City identified the elements of the Right to the City in the New Agenda Urban: QUITO IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE NEW URBAN AGENDA 1 - Commitments: “States commit to promote/support, acknowledge, reaffirm”1 Subnational and local...
The Right to the City will be included for the very first time in an UN document
The New Urban Agenda will be released during HabitatIII Conference and will affect all cities for the next 20 years. After a long advocacy and negotiation process, the Right to the City will be mentioned for the very first time in an UN agreement. The New Urban Agenda...
