International Open Forum “The Right to the City: Progress in Latin America and Across the World”

Objectives

• Sharing
  information on the elaboration, signing and implementation of the Mexico
  City Charter on the Right to the City and establish a dialogue to share experiences
  with and from other countries.

• Updating
  and deepening international debate and exchange on contents and strategies
  used by different actors towards the recognition and realization of the
  right to the city.

• Contribute
  to strengthen links and alliances for a global platform that serves the
  human rights movement to formulate proposals for a new international Urban
  Agenda towards the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and
  Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III – 2016).

Participants: international
networks, social movements, civil society organizations, human rights
activists, academics and governmental institutions from Argentina, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, El Salvador, Egypt, Spain, United States,
France, Guatemala, India, UK, Kenya and South Africa.

Organizers: Habitat International Coalition (HIC), POLIS
Institute and National Forum for Urban Reform-FNRU (Brazil) and the Promotion
Committee of the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City (integrated
by the Urban Popular Movement of the National Democratic Congress, MUP-CND, the
Mexico City Ministry of Government, the Latin American office of Habitat
International Coalition, HIC-AL, the Federal District Human Rights Commission, CDHDF,
and the Space of Civil Organizations on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(Espacio DESC).

To download the poster (in spanish) click here.

To download the Program, please click here.

The Forum will be streaming at http://www.livestream.com/hical

For further
information please contact:

Claudia Hernández
Habitat International Coalition
Latin America Office (HIC-AL)
Tel: 5512
1586 and 5512 6726
E-mail: hic-al@hic-al.org
Website: hic-net.org

Carolina
López and Federico Vera
Mexico City
Human Rights Commission
Tel:
52295600 ext. 1605 y 1610
E-mails: carolina.lopez@cdhdf.org.mx and federico.vera@cdhdf.org.mx