Get ready for January 26th! World wide housing rights groups are organizing events and actions as part of the Global Day of Action and the World Social Forum. From actions in Mexico, to events in Europe, seminars in India and marches in Chile HIC members and allies are putting housing rights issues center stage as part of the global day. Act Together – Housing for All! Join us!
Please send event details to Julio@hic-net.org. In order to best support the great media work being done by the World Social Forum to ensure all of our events are seen and heard, please send the WHY, WHEN, WHERE, WHO and WHAT as soon as possible.
Let’s make this 26th memorable. Stand up for housing rights and the global struggle for people’s movements worldwide! For more information visit Act Together – Housing for All!
Date: (9th to 11th) 12th of February 2008
Place: Rambla del Poblenou 156
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Sede 22,
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Time: 9:30 → 13:30
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) convokes all its members to this year’s General Assembly that will take place in Barcelona (Spain) in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The Barcelona HIC Global Events begin with the HIC Board meeting on the 8th of February. The Assembly will be carried out throughout three and a half days taking in account three days for Strategy Development Workshops –from the 9th till the 11th, combining Assembly and Board inputs– and culminating in the space for making decisions based on the four previous days of work, the General Assembly, on the morning of the 12th.
Ample participation will allow a better mix of activities between the Board meetings and the General Assembly.
All HIC members welcome!
1. The following proposed agenda:
2. Verification of Quorum
3. Approval of the Agenda
4. Welcome and Introduction by HIC President, Davinder Lamba
5. Approval of the Minutes of the General Assembly of Nairobi, January 2007
6. HIC Global Report 2007
7. HIC Strategic Development
8. Review of Electoral Guidelines/ Bylaws
9. Financial Report
10. Definition of location of next GA
11. Closure
After the General Assembly, in the evening of February 12th, Women and the Right to Housing Seminar will be held at the Pati Manning –Montalegre, 7, 08001 Barcelona–, organized by HIC and Observatori DESC, sponsored by the Catalan Cooperation Agency (ACCD).
Meeting Agenda: Board of Directors and General Assembly
Please note that plans are subject to change, but that the information here reflects the activities planned for the meetings. For further information you may contact juan@hic-net.org
Day 8: Coalition’s Reach 2007, Board Meeting
9:30→19:30
Institutional Themes
1. President’s welcome
2. Quorum
3. Agenda approval
4. Approval of Nairobi 2007 minutes and review of follow-up decisions
5. Membership
• Membership report
• Membership applications that need Board review
6. Elections
• Analysis of outcomes (President/N.A.) and pending processes (Social Mov. Rep/HSEN)
• Revision of guidelines and procedures within the scope of electoral outcome. (Decision to take guidelines to GA to make them By-Law).
7. HIC Board Commissions
• Review of the performance of the Commission
• Executive Committee
• Spokespersons Team/Council of the Wise
• Communication
• Membership
• Campaign
• Monitoring and Mapping
8. General Assembly
• Underlying themes of the Assembly: decentralization, themes suggested by members
9. Designation
• Determine Vice-president, Treasurer y Executive Committee
Day 9: The Coalition seen from its regional and thematic structures
9:30→19:30
Presentation of reports on the regional/thematic achievements of 2007. Please note that all regional/thematic reports must be sent to GS by January 15th at the latest. This will allow the GS to prepare the Global report for the meetings.
Structure Accountable
* HIC President Davinder Lamba / Enrique Ortiz
* HLRN Joseph Schechla / Shivani Bhardwaj
* HIC-Latin America Anelise Melendez / Carmen Gonzalez / Felix Yanez / Leonardo Pessina / Lorena Zárate
* HIC- Francophone Africa Korotimi Thera / Joseph Fumtim / Malick Gaye
* HIC-Anglophone Africa Nellie Agingu / Salvador Ferreira / Zarina Ishani
* HIC-Asia Rabial Mallick / Sri Wijanti Eddyono / Ted Anana
* HIC-Europe Katherine Coit / Knut Unger
* HIC-MENA Issa Samander / Amal al-Basha / Rabie Wardah
* HIC- North America Yet to be confirmed
* HIC-WAS Maria das Gracas Xavier / Diana Miloslavich / Leon Guy / Mobola Fajemirokun / Juliet Bannoura / Anchita Ghatak
* HIC-HSEN Yet to be confirmed
* HIC-GS Ana Sugranyes
Format of the presentations:
15 minutes to present
15 minutes for questions regarding content (without entering in discussion)
Depending on the number of reports that HIC-GS receives before January 15th 2008, the presentation and follow-up time will increase or decrease.
Analysis of the first draft of the HIC Global Report.
Discussion
Day 10: Strategic Development Workshop, Board and General Assembly
9:30→19:30
Objectives of the Coalition 2008-2011
Definition of objectives and benchmarks within the scope of 3 main lines of intervention:
• Consolidating the Coalition
• Supporting people’s cantered housing processes
• Advocacy
Operationalization of objectives
What do we need to implement in order to achieve these objectives? How do we reach the alliance objectives? Definition of the spaces for HIC intervention.
Day 11: Strategy Development Workshop, Board and General Assembly
9:30→19:30
There will be three separate two-hour blocks of group workshops. You may sign up to any group in the list or suggest new groups:
* Campaign 2008
* Communication/Media
* HIC Global and Africa
* HIC Global and Asia
* Membership
* Monitoring/Mapping
* Operational Plan: Social Production of Habitat Project
* Special Rapp. on RAH (future)
* Structure/Organizational issues
* WUF4
* WSF 2009
Each group will have to create a report defining activities, responsibilities, communication tools, resources
Monday, February 11th at 8:30 pm with the "Assemblea pel Dret a l’Habitatge"
Day 12: The Coalition’s Visibility, General Assembly
9:30→13:30
1. President’s welcome
2. Quorum
3. Approval of the agenda*
4. Approval of Nairobi minutes*
5. Global Report 2007: Results from day 9*
6. Presentation of results from Day 10 + 11*
7. Elections: Guidelines to become bylaws?*
8. Financial Report*
9. Define next General Assembly*
10. Closure
*submitted to vote
Day 12 evening – 14
(Full Schedule Below)
Women’s equal rights to adequate housing and to the access and ownership of land and other resources are widely recognized in national and international law. Nevertheless, women all over the world, in the North as well is in the South, still experience a situation of higher vulnerability to violations of these rights. This international seminar on Women and Housing Rights will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on the 12th to 14th of February 2008. During those days, presentations and group discussions will be held on three themes:
1. Women and the Access to Housing Resources
2. Women and Habitational Violence
3. Women and the Democratic Management of Housing and Resources
These themes are based on the findings from seven regional consultations on women and housing rights organized all over the world by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing between 2002 and 2006.The aim of the seminar is to create a strategy for the formulation of an international agenda for women and housing rights. These strategies will build on three aspects: visibility of problems faced by women in relation to housing, empowerment of social organizations and influence on housing politics.
Day 12: 18:30→20:30
Seminar Inauguration
• Observatori DESC
• David Minoves, ACCD
• Miloon Kothari, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Day 13: 9:00→18:30
Presentation of main themes
9:00 Welcome participants and introduction to themes to outline the creation of the strategy
11:30 Group Work
15:00 Group Work
Day 14: 9:00→20:30
Seminar Closure
9:00 Group Work
11:00 Session to create common working plan
15:00 Strategy formulation
18:30 Closure
Habitat International Coalition, HIC
Carme Trilla, Generalitat de Catalunya
Marta Selva, Institut de les Dones
Ana Falú, UNIFEM
2007 is over. We went through it with huge challenges, consolidating the organization to extend the legitimacy of our struggle for a major justice and equity, to identify a new president to ensure the continuity in the achievement of the drawn up goals, to get to know and inform about the social production of habitat processes; to advocate the housing rights and the right to the city in the world
From the Campaign for the Housing and Land Rights that started in the month of October, we have joined the forces with other networks for the global mobilization of the World Social Forum 2008.
We wish you a lot of strength to go ahead with these demands and struggles during 2008...
In February in Barcelona, just before the International Seminar on Women and Housing Rights (http://hic-net.org/foro/body.asp), we will have a Board Meeting and a General Assembly to define the Coalition strategy for the next three years (http://www.hic-net.org/news.asp?PID=549).
According to the HIC Constitution guidelines (http://www.hic-net.org/constitution.asp), we now invite you to update your membership.
In order to renew your membership, you should update your organization’s data --as well as yours— on the online service we have improved for this purpose (http://www.hic-net.org/membership).
Also annual dues should be paid to HIC.
The annual contribution is determined by a sliding scale related to the budget of your organization or to your personal income as HIC friend. To make the payment please consult: http://www.hic-net.org/joinFees.asp or contact marie@hic-net.org.
Best wishes and regards,
HIC General Secretariat
Dear HIC Board and North American HIC Members,
The results of the North American Board Representative Election are complete. There were seven organizations that voted in the election. After calls from the General Secretariat (on September 3, September 26 and October 19, 2007) for the formation of an electoral committee and for the payment of membership dues, an Electoral Committee was formed by the end of November 2007. The Electoral Committee called elections and nominations for candidates on December 3, 2008. After dialogue with voting members about an expedited election process and modified guidelines in order to complete the election with so few voting members, the voting phase was commenced on December 14, 2008, with an e-mail to voting members. The closing date for votes was listed in the e-mail along with instructions and candidate bios. Voting ended on midnight, December 20, 2007. By January 3, 2008, the votes had been verified and counted with the following results:
The individual that has been elected, as the North American HIC Board Representative is Nick Volk and the Alternate is Anita Beaty.
Thank you all for your participation in the elections!
Best wishes,
Maria Foscarinis & Richard Stren
Electoral Committee
North American HIC Board Representative Elections
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