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...
Enhanced political participation
A human settlement with enhanced political participation in the definition, implementation, monitoring, and budgeting of urban policies and spatial planning in order to strengthen the transparency, effectiveness and inclusion of the diversity of inhabitants and their organizations.Enhanced political participation
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Urban youth in the face of climate change
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...
Elections and Agenda for the Right to the City
The Agenda for the Right to the City is a repository that included more than 600 ideas,proposals, and actions from social movements and organisations for the 2019 municipal elections in Catalonia and the Spanish State. This initiative has been promoted by Observatori...
Why we talk about Women’s Right to the City
Women’s rights to land, housing, the city, and their urban assets, as well as their empowerment have been the central concern of networks and organizations- in particular of grassroots women’s organizations -which contribute from their daily experiences. It is...
The City Understood as a Common Good, an Emerging Pillar of the Right to the City
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 inhabitants in NY, facing the NUA for the Right to the City
The choice of inhabitants at the HLPF in New York: being g-local for the Right to the City facing the New Urban Agenda. New York, July 2018. On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals the IAI, HIC and other international...
The Right to the City, a cornerstone for “leaving no one behind”
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,...
Building 4Humanity Resilient Design Competition. Marielle Franco Community-Design Award
The 8th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR) (to be held in Lisbon between 14 and 16 November 2018) is organizing a very special award: the Marielle Franco Community-Design Award. This award pays a tribute to Marielle Franco, sociologist and social...