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 […]
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 will be holding a quartely meeting with Members to discuss the advances on Advocacy, the challenges and to define together the Coalition advocacy strategy.
HIC will be holding a quartely meeting with Members to discuss the advances on Advocacy, the challenges and to define together the Coalition advocacy strategy.
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. […]
Grassroots Trust for Community Organization in Kenya together with other civil society organizations is organizing this conference: 2nd Housing Conference in Kenya, as an Advocacy Mechanism for influencing, learning, building local and global networks, as well as documenting lessons and best practices.
The United Nations’ (UN) World Habitat Day is annually celebrated on the first Monday of October to reflect on the state of human settlements and people’s right to sufficient shelter. By a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1985, the first Monday in October of each year is commemorated as World Habitat Day or World Homeless […]
Urban October 2021 offers us a moment to raise our voices in the defence, promotion and realization of our human rights related to habitat. This month is not only about urban sustainability, even though the theme of this year’s World Habitat Day (4th October) is “Accelerating urban action for a carbon-free world”. Social and environmental movements, […]
Grassroots Trust for Community Organization in Kenya in collaboration with County Government of Kisumu and local and International Housing stakeholders organize the Conference : “Access to and Secure Land tenure - A Key pillar for Adequate and Affordable Housing”. Dates: from 5th – 6th virtual and 18th - 19th October 2021, The challenge of access […]
The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK. On 28 May 2020, the COP Bureau decided that it would take place from 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK. The change in dates had been anticipated following a […]