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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. […]

2nd Housing Conference in Kenya

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.

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World Habitat Day 2021

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 : HIC Members, Friends and Allies activities

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, […]

The 2nd Kisumu international conference on adequate and affordable housing for all for sustainable development

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 […]

UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 26)

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 […]

Special event : Climate justice is a Habitat right

Mark your calendar: special event on climate justice HIC presents a special event to bring people’s voices together in a collective call for climate justice and to discuss the outcomes of the CoP26 negotiations. Building on HIC’s mandate and the five pillars of the Habitat Voices Manifesto, the event will also seek to highlight some […]

HIC General Assembly 2021

The HIC General Assembly 2021 was attended by 86 registered participants (43 women and 43 men) from 54 organizations, 31 countries; 8 Board Members, and the team of 7 HIC Reference Centres.  Click here to read the minutes HIC General Assembly minutes 2021 Save the date! HIC General Assembly Thursday 9 December 2021, Online HIC Members, […]

60th Session of the Commission for Social Development – CSocD60

The 60th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD60) will take place largely online from 7 to 16 February 2022 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Commission is the advisory body responsible for the social development pillar of global development.Priority Theme: Inclusive and resilient recovery from COVID-19 for sustainable livelihoods, well-being […]

Sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66)

The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) which is scheduled to be held from 14-25 March 2022 and will consider the priority theme of “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes”. The […]