The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has been invited by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) to facilitate a thematic Town Hall process during 2022. The goal is to foster shared narratives and concrete recommendations from civil society...
In the last three decades, Latin America has played a key role in the debate and struggle for the Right to the City, being the region also a pioneer in experiences of legal recognition of this right and the formulation of public policies aimed at the implementation of...
Dear members and friends, 2021 has been a year of challenges, advances and strong mobilization for the Right to the City around the world, acutely marked by the prolongation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the progressive rollout of vaccination campaigns and the gradual...
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C9, invited by UN-Habitat, has participated in several workshops to contribute to the drafting of the UN Secretary General's Quadrennial Report on progress (and setbacks) in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda....
Don’t miss the opportunity to be one of the initiatives of change chosen by Transformative Cities The 2021-2022 edition of the Transformative Cities Award has just been released: “The world needs inspiring stories of change. Are you part of the solution?” is the motto...
By Vanesha Manuturi, Kota Kita In the past year, the cities that we live in today face what feels like a growing list of uncertainties. Communities in Indonesia and around the world have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic like nothing we have ever seen or...
Since last year the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has embarked on the preparation of a series of thematic papers to deepen the key conceptual and programmatic contents related to the right to the city. These documents are intended to strengthen the...
Masakhane is an informal settlement in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga (north-east South Africa). People started living here 50 years ago. It has nowadays an aproximate population of more than 3.700 people. Residents of Masakhane in eMalahleni have never had running water....
Over the last decades, with an increasing trend towards privatization of essential services, overall economic deregulation and the enhancement of the globalization of production and distribution chains, we have witnessed the constant growth of economic influence of...
This post is also available in: French, Spanish. On the Occasion of the 2021 High-Level Political Forum, RIPESS, Urgenci and the Global Platform for the Right to the City have co-organised the side-event “Overcoming inequalities through the COVID-19 recovery:...
