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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The objective of the World Water Alternative Forum (WWAF) – in French, Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) – is to create a concrete alternative to the World Water Forum (WWF) which is organized by the World Water Council. This Council is a mouthpiece for transnational companies and the World Bank and they falsely claim […]
On March 26th and 27th, housing movements around Europe will be taking the streets for a third time during the 2022 Housing Action Day in coordinated actions to demand the effective protection and implementation of the right to adequate housing and the city. As in other countries of the world, the population of European cities […]