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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 […]

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: […]

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 […]