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Enhancing gender equality, women’s land and habitat rights to accelerate poverty eradication and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – event at the CSW68

"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 […]

Virtual side event at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum

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 Learning dialogues: Advancing the Right to the City in Africa, Commoning as a Tool for Transformative Collective Action

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 […]

UN Summit of the Future

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 […]

Asia Habitat Dialogues Reflection Meeting

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 […]

1st HIC Online Dialogue on the Convergence of Social and Feminist Movements

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 […]

Urban October Dialogue: Exploring Climate Change Impacts and Related Loss & Damage in African Cities

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 […]

World Urban Forum 12

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: […]

CSocD 63 Side event : Centering the right to adequate Housing ahead of the World Summit for Social Development

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 […]

CSW69 Event: Leveraging Inclusive Social Policies to Ensure Women’s Rights to Land, Housing, and Livelihoods

Virtual parallel event at this year’s 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69). A collaboration between the Women and Habitat Africa Working Group (WHAWG), Women Spaces Project Actors (Rooftops Canada) and the HIC Cross-regional Working Group on Feminist Approaches.  It will take place on Wednesday, 19th March at 10.30-12.00 NY Time((You […]