Public Event in New York: Right to the City

Join the international activists from the Global Platform for the Right to the City for a conversation on building a global movement for housing as a human right.

Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon

A symposium being held at Harvard University from September 20-22, 2018 that will challenge participants to discuss the range of perceptions and systemic changes needed to re-imagine integrative urban and social landscapes, as well as the labor and land markets that most often underpin the formation of slums.

International Meeting for Equal Cities

In face of U20, social organizations, grassroots movements, civil society networks, academics and local authorities committed to equality, human rights and sustainability, we propose to show the other faces and the other voices of our cities. We want to address the root causes that generate impoverishment, exclusion and inequality and exchange experiences of resistance and transformative proposals from neighbourhoods and urban groups.

Urban Storytellers’ CONVITE

Lorena Zárate, HIC Presidents participate at CONVITE, the celebration of collective actions that result from solidarity and empathy networks among urban dwellers. In Medellín, CONVITE has been a social, cultural and technological tool to build urban infrastructure at the neighbourhood level with a city scale impact.

Fifth edition of the Triennale des Habitants

The National Network of Cameroonian Inhabitants and its partners are organizing the fifth edition of the Triennial of Inhabitants in Douala-Cameroon from 15 to 17 April 2019, on the theme: to provide decent housing for 5,000,000 households by 2035.

UN Habitat Assembly

The first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly will be held from 27-31 May 2019, at the headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi. Member States of the United Nations are expected to participate, as well as other United Nations Agencies, Local authorities and non-state actors including civil society, youth and women group representatives, the private sector and the Academia.