This collective dialogue will be the beginning of drawing connections across the spectrum of Habitat Rights and the Right to the City: Roundtable between United Nations Special Rapporteurs, civil society organizations and local and regional governments ...
Fulfilled social functions
A city/human settlement fulfilling its social functions, that is, ensuring equitable and affordable access for all to housing, goods, services and urban opportunities, particularly for women, marginalized groups and people with special needs; a city/human settlement that prioritizes theFulfilled social functions
Events
Webinars: GPR2C Thematic Papers
For the remainder of 2020, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) is embarked on the preparation of three thematic documents to deepen the key conceptual and programmatic contents related to the right to the city. These documents are intended to...
Conversation with United Nations Special Rapporteurs
Along with Habitat International Coalition, the GPR2C is co-organizing a conversation with United Nations Special Rapporteurs (SRs) focused on how to improve synergies between their work and that of civil society and grassroots organizations. A series of SRs will be...
Online course “Decoding the Right to the City”
Registrations are closed now! Thank you all for your interest! The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) aims to contribute to the emergence of new emancipatory utopias and social pacts for a better future in all human settlements, giving visibility...
Zero Eviction : In Defense of the Urban and Rural Life
Global launch of the Zero Eviction Campaign The Pólis Institute, Global Platform for the Right to the City and DHESCA Brazil Platform will hold an international online event in favor of the suspension of evictions during the health crisis caused by the Covid-19...
Affordable Housing and Land in Latin America
This webinar is co-organized by Cities Alliance and the Habitat Unit from TU Berlin. The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and its geography within city regions have brought attention to the socio-economic cracks of current urbanization patterns. Poor neighborhoods and...
Webinar : Creating accessible and inclusive public spaces with/for resilient communities
Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash Creating accessible and inclusive public spaces with/for resilient communities Thursday June 18, 1.00 - 2.30 pm CET >>> Registration Nelson Saule Junior, from the Global Platform for the Right to the city, will be...
(Webinar) COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus: The Shelter Gap
The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) model is an initiative of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, conceived as an open space for critical exchange between all stakeholders and partners with the aim to promote sustainable urbanization. It is also envisaged as a platform to...
