The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) held an online side event at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2020 on July 16th, facilitated by Sophia Torres from the GPR2C support team. GPR2C members and allies from local governments, international...
UN Human Rights bodies special procedures have been developing different efforts to stress the importance of adopting a human rights approach in addressing the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond issuing a series of joint press releases and statements, a group of different...
Global mapping of civil society collaborations and initiatives against COVID-19 in popular neighbourhoods In order to face the emergency and collectively imagine a post-pandemic future, it is necessary to generate and consolidate a global network of solidarity and...
Call for contributions to UN Special Rapporteurs report on COVID-19 and human rights Source: OHCHR UN Human Rights bodies special procedures have taken various initiatives in relation to COVID-19 with the objective to stress the importance of adopting a human rights...
Article by Lorena Zárate, originally published at Minim There is no doubt about it: the current global pandemic offers some acute warnings and delivers several fundamental messages to our societies. First and foremost, it suddenly and simultaneously focuses our...
On August 12, 2019, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) and TECHO launched the "Artistic Challenge: Latin American and Caribbean Youth Perspectives on Climate Change under the framework of the Right to the City". The initiative invites young...
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...
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...
1. The Evolution of Human Rights for the Right to the City 1.1. The Concept of Urban Rights in the Popular Amendment on Urban Reform The concept of urban rights was included as a core element of the Urban Reform’s thinking which emerged during Brazil’s process...
The Right to the City is a collective demand and agreement on the need to implement the Global Agendas for Sustainable Development with a human rights approach. "In his book "The Invisible Cities", Italo Calvino asked this question in a work dedicated to urban spaces,...
