Towards Goal 16 of Sustainable Development in Palestine: The Realisation of the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination, and Ensuring Accountability

Location: Online – Registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email Register at: https://bit.ly/3v9SyoX Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/14Qau3t1c Moderator Ms. Marya Farah, Representative at the UN in NY for Franciscans International Speakers Application and Relevance of the Indigenous Framework to Palestine and the Palestinian People as a Whole – Mr. Joseph Schechla, Coordinator of Housing and Land Rights Network of […]

The Fondation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA present their 6th edition of Regard sur le Mal-Logement en Europe.

Poor housing, unemployment: Europe's youth at risk! The webinar will be available in Englñisg and French This launch webinar will be an opportunity to debate, in the presence of civil society organisations, European institutions and policy makers, the future action of the European Union to meet the challenges of the fight against inadequate housing and […]

Input to the draft general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is exploring the meaning of land within the human rights obligations of states parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. HIC-HLRN is contributing to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural rights consultation on the meaning of the right to land. […]

Learning from and across African cities: Emancipatory pedagogies for transformative change – Rise Africa event

Join us for an upcoming workshop titled ‘Learning from and across African cities: Emancipatory pedagogies for transformative change, which will take place on Tuesday 25 May 2021 from 13:00 to 15:00 SAST (find your local time here). This workshop is co-organised by the Habitat International Coalition and Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality programme, and […]

Presenting HIC’s Action Research: Towards Adherence to Human Rights and the Right to the City

A collective presentation and debate with the organizations involved On 27th May 2021, the HIC General Secretariat will launch the book ‘A Framework for Understanding The Nature, Efficacy & Lessons of Civil Society Movement Strategies for Influencing Policy Towards Adherence to Human Rights and the Right to the City’ in an online zoom event that will […]

Fearless and Transformative Cities: Housing Stories from the Ground

The right to housing is under attack. Alarming levels of homelessness, forced evictions, unaffordable homes―we need long-term solutions to the global housing crisis. As Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, argues: “Due to the unprecedented nature of the crisis, tinkering around the edges of an unsustainable model of economic development will not […]

The high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) 2021

This year's meeting of the HLPF (6 - 15 July 2021), will take place under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, discussing ways to ensure a sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 in order to realize the 2030 Agenda.  The theme is "Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the […]

HIC Co-Learning Spaces: Strategy Meeting for Participants

HIC is inviting its Members to participate in the 2021-2022 HIC Co-Learning Spaces, to strengthen the Coalition capacity to prioritize, strategize, learn and advocate together to influence habitat-related policy outcomes Co-learning spaces are cross-regional, multi-session learning opportunities for interested HIC Members, Friends and allies to generate and multiply emancipatory learning practices based on human rights related to habitat. […]