Document. “What’s the right to the city?”

The Global Platform for the Right to the City emerged from the initiative of several organizations working on the theme around the world and from the need to promote and mobilize national and local governments, international and regional organizations towards a new paradigm for development, more inclusive and democratic.

The Platform advocate for the recognition and adoption of the Right to the City in the implementation of public policies, therefore it has been participating, through its members, in different spaces and events related to Habitat III process in order to disseminate the concept and to lobby for its adoption as the cornerstone of the New Urban Agenda.

In this sense, the present document, organized by the Platform with the support of Eva Garcia Chueca, attempts to provide a clear and easy understanding of the right to the city in view of enriching the drafting process of the New Agenda. With this
purpose, it begins by providing a graphic of the matrix of the right to the city, which is later further developed. Then, the paper deals with some misconceptions on the right to the city, it refers to the stakeholders who hold the main responsibility to implement it and mentions its legal basis. Finally, the document offers some examples of good practices.

Organizations

ActionAid; Avina
Foundation; Brazilian Association of Municipalities; Cities Alliance; Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG); Huairou Commission; Global Fund for the Cities Development (FMDV); Ford Foundation; Brazilian National Urban Reform Forum; Habitat for Humanity; Habitat International Coalition (HIC); International Alliance of Inhabitants; Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS); Pólis Institute; Red Mujer y Hábitat; Shack Slum Dwellers International (SDI); TECHO; United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG); WIEGO – Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing; Women In Cities International.

contact

www.right2city.org

contact@right2city.org

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