We are pleased to inform you that the World Social Forum 2024 (WSF2024) is scheduled to take place from February 15-19 in Nepal. The WSF serves as an open space and platform for the convergence of a diverse range of participants, including social movements, laborers, farmers, civil society groups, marginalized communities, and those affected by […]
"Enhancing gender equality, women's land and habitat rights to accelerate poverty eradication and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals"hybrid event organized by the HIC- Women and Habitat Africa Working Group (WHAWG) at this year’s 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68): Date: Monday 18th March 2024. Time: 3:30pm - 5pm Venue: 866 United […]
Care, Territories and Violence: enhancing gender equality, women’s land and habitat rights to accelerate poverty eradication Virtual side event at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum March 20, 8:30am NY time. (You can check your local time here ). Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-iurTopHtJMPeoYHZvWmW-IXQPRGjqS Registration is ongoing and will be open till the 14h […]
Session 3: Fostering commoning and Right to the City: Enabling environments and partnerships How to build and enlarge a community of commoners? What roles can public-community partnerships play in addressing shared and diverse challenges? How do these dynamics feature and differ in the diverse social, political and economic contexts of Sub-Saharan Africa? Participatory methodology including […]
20-21 September — Action Days 22-23 September — Summit The Summit is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using […]
We, at HIC—WPC (Habitat International Coalition—Working People's Charter), are inviting you to join the Asia Housing Dialogues (AHD) Initiative. This initiative aims to address critical housing and habitat challenges across the region and build livable, just, and resilient cities in Asia. As we enter the initiative's second phase, we invite you to a reflection meeting […]
Let's strategise! Join us online to discuss the convergence of social & feminist movements with habitat-related rights! The dialogue is part of the HIC convergence of social and feminist movements which is a cross-regional process towards the collective construction of a common agenda for action, informed by the struggles, local experiences, and political advocacy of the movements […]
Overview The first habitat-and-environment initiative within HIC started in Africa, with Malick Gaye starting up the Habitat and Sustainable Environment Network (HSEN) in 1992, in the context of the 1st Environment and Development Conference in Rio. The Rio conference was preceded by the 1st Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment, which some consider to […]
The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum WUF12, convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 8 November 2024, returning to the African continent after more than 20 years after its inception in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2002. WUF12 Theme It All Starts at Home: […]
Register here: www.bit.ly/CSoCD-housing Background We are today witnessing a global housing crisis, marked by a scenario of an overall worsening of affordability conditions, increasing financialization and speculation of housing, evictions and direct and indirect displacement. As such, the number of people without proper housing or living in inadequate conditions is currently projected at 1.6 billion […]