International Meeting for Equal Cities

In face of U20, social organizations, grassroots movements, civil society networks, academics and local authorities committed to equality, human rights and sustainability, we propose to show the other faces and the other voices of our cities. We want to address the root causes that generate impoverishment, exclusion and inequality and exchange experiences of resistance and transformative proposals from neighbourhoods and urban groups.

Urban Storytellers’ CONVITE

Lorena Zárate, HIC Presidents participate at CONVITE, the celebration of collective actions that result from solidarity and empathy networks among urban dwellers. In Medellín, CONVITE has been a social, cultural and technological tool to build urban infrastructure at the neighbourhood level with a city scale impact.

Fifth edition of the Triennale des Habitants

The National Network of Cameroonian Inhabitants and its partners are organizing the fifth edition of the Triennial of Inhabitants in Douala-Cameroon from 15 to 17 April 2019, on the theme: to provide decent housing for 5,000,000 households by 2035.

UN Habitat Assembly

The first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly will be held from 27-31 May 2019, at the headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi. Member States of the United Nations are expected to participate, as well as other United Nations Agencies, Local authorities and non-state actors including civil society, youth and women group representatives, the private sector and the Academia.

International Social Housing Festival

Housing Europe, Aura HLM, L'Union Social Pour l'Habitat and la Metropole du Grand Lyon are organizing the 2019 edition of the International Social Housing Festival to take place in Lyon from the 4th to the 8th of June 2019.

HIC members and allies assembly at the ISHF

In the occasion of the second editions of the International Social Housing Festival in Lyon, HIC and the Global Platform for the Right to the City will be organizing an open assembly with HIC members, allies and other organizations.

Al-Haq International Law Summer School

The summer school aims to assist post-graduates and professionals develop a coherent
understanding of the legal and human rights situation in the OPT with an applicable
approach. The summer school offers lectures by human rights professionals and group
discussions on key human rights issues and trends in violations witnessed in the OPT.