COP30, which takes place from November 10 to 21, 2025 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, can be an opportunity to leverage the Right to the City and Climate Justice in building a multi-actor, multi-level partnership for climate action, led by communities, in alliance with...

Diverse and inclusive economies
A city/human settlement with diverse and inclusive economies that safeguards and ensures access to secure livelihoods and decent work for all inhabitants, gives room to other economies (e.g. social and solidarity economy, sharing economy), recognizes the domestic care and community work developed largely by women and ensures the full development of women and girls.Diverse and inclusive economies
Campaigns
International Women’s Day 2024 – Women’s Right to the City: Let’s build Caring Cities
We need cities that prioritize lifeWe, civil society organizations and local governments, participating in the Global Platform for the Right to the City -women and girls of all ages, dissidents and backgrounds - from all regions of the world, demand that the matter of...
Urban October 2023: The Best Urban Economies are Diverse and Inclusive – a Component of the Right to the City
Joint PublicationMembers and Allies InitiativesOn the occasion of Urban October 2023, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) calls for the promotion and support of diverse and inclusive economies, a component of the Right to the City, to achieve fair,...
The GPR2C at the Second session of the UN-Habitat Assembly
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) Members and Allies will be in Nairobi to actively participate in the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly ( 5 to 9 June 2023), to call on UN Member States and UN-Habitat to accelerate the...
News
2025: a summary of our year
GPR2C Summary of 2025: Towards a global mutirão and caring cities! Dear friends, 2025 was marked by the intensification of the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) on two strategic fronts: Climate Justice and Care. With great expectations from...
The GPR2C’s work on the Right to the City and Care
The GPR2C has defined “Care" as one of its strategic priorities for action in the period from 2023 to 2026. For the municipal movement, care is much more than just social policy, it is part of a fundamental political vision to transform the way we govern, plan and...
The GPR2C at COP30: a review
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) took to COP30 the vision that there is no Climate Justice without the Right to the City. The first climate conference to be held in Brazil took place from November 10 to 21, 2025, but preparations for our arrival...
Our journey so far: the GPR2C task force ahead of COP30
For some years now, we have been working on the connections between climate justice and the right to the city. Starting with the publication of our thematic paper in 2020 and continuing to work with our members on local, national, regional and global initiatives. This...
Publications
Cities and human settlements with diverse and inclusive economies
This Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) document aims to visibilize the Right to the City approach to diverse and inclusive economies as to fulfill just, inclusive, safe and sustainable cities, villages and human settlements, defined as commons...
Towards the implementation of the Right to the City
This guide intends to present a series of indicators that allow for monitoring the implementation of public policies at the municipal level, and that make it possible to advance in the concretion and implementation of the Right to the City. We understand the Right to...
The Right to The City in Asia Region: Stories from the ‘Invisible’
This research raises questions about the right to the city both in terms of definition and practice in the Asian region, drawing on the experiences of four countries: China, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Through a fruitful collaborative process, the...
[THEMATIC PAPER] The City as a Common Good: A Pillar of the Right to the City
Since 2020, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has embarked on a collective learning process together with all its members and allies for the elaboration of a series of thematic papers to explore and deepen into the key conceptual and programmatic...
Events
The best urban economies are diverse and inclusive: a Right to the City component
Commemorative event on the occasion of the International Day of Care and Support and the World Day for the Right to the City The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has partnered with members RIPESS, Streetnet, WIEGO and Urgenci to develop...
UNHA Side Event – Quito+7: A collective dialogue to recover and fulfill the New Urban Agenda’s Commitments
The Habitat III process reflected the deliberation of various actors to collectively commit to actions that make our cities, villages, territories and human settlements more just, inclusive, safe and sustainable. Key issues emerged toward the adoption of the New Urban...
Ciclo de debates “Avances del derecho a la ciudad en América Latina”
En 2021, se conmemoran 5 años de existencia de la Nueva Agenda Urbana (NAU) y se celebran los 20 años del Estatuto de la Ciudad (EC) de Brasil, ambos productos de importantes movilizaciones y estrategias de incidencia que han involucrado a distintos actores sociales y...
Ciclo de debates “Avances del derecho a la ciudad en América Latina”
En 2021, se conmemoran 5 años de existencia de la Nueva Agenda Urbana (NAU) y se celebran los 20 años del Estatuto de la Ciudad (EC) de Brasil, ambos productos de importantes movilizaciones y estrategias de incidencia que han involucrado a distintos actores sociales y...
Members
ActionAid Association
Description: ActionAid Association is an organisation working for social and ecological justice. ActionAid has been engaged with the most marginalised communities in India since 1972. In 2006, ActionAid Association was registered as an Indian organisation, governed by...
Vizinhos de Arroios
Description: "Vizinhos de Arroios" is an informal, non-partisan organization of neighbours and residents of the "Arroios" neighbourhood in the city of Lisbon (Portugal) Mission: Promote, Reclaim, Discuss, Debate, Denounce issues of...
Observatório das metrópoles
Description: Observatório das metrópoles is a networked research group, bringing together institutions and researchers from university, governmental and non-governmental fields. The team formed in the Observatory has been working for 20 years, currently...
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable -CEDEUS
Description: Interdisciplinary research aimed at public policy Mission: To generate interdisciplinary scientific knowledge to increase awareness and strengthen the policy and practice of sustainable urban development in Chile. Outreach:...











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