The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents with a vision to the world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance for an inclusive and sustainable world.
The mission is to convene a Global Parliament of Mayors to facilitate debates between mayors, national governments and international organisations, drive systematic action to take on global and national challenges and opportunities to achieve political change on a global scale. Mayors take leadership and ownership of the global challenges that they face on a local level.
GPM Joins the 40 Days Safer Cities Challenge
The global challenge of violence demands a global response, that is why the Global Parliament of Mayors together with Peace In Our Cities launched an international resolution to accelerate efforts to halve violence by 2030. Between [...]
GPM Open letter to UN Secretary-General
10 September 2020 – The Mayors that gather in the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) urge the United Nations to recognize the important role of cities for a multilateral and rules-based international political system and [...]
Why maps matter in our response to COVID-19
20 August 2020 - The most useful maps and data visualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic have helped us understand, respond to and recover from the crisis; several maps seek to estimate the potential spread of [...]
The GPM congratulates Mayor Grace Mary Mugasa of Hoima
17 August 2020 - The GPM congratulates Mayor Grace Mary Mugasa of Hoima (Uganda) on the recent launch of the city status of Hoima as one of the 15 new cities in Uganda. Obtaining the [...]
Power to the Cities
12 July 2020 - Whether it be climate change, financial crises or, most recently, the corona crisis: in a globalised world, political challenges are increasingly reaching beyond previous borders. Occurrences at a market in the [...]
GPM Summit 2020 Postponed to 17-19 April 2021
6 July 2020 - Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Executive Committee has announced that the GPM Annual Summit is postponed to next year and will take place on 17-19 April 2021 in Palermo, [...]
Re-imagining cities in the COVID-19 era
1 July 2020 - Empty streets in Lima, Peru, during the Coronavirus outbreak, March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is quietly and radically reconfiguring cities around the world. It has already brought several of the world’s [...]
Invitation to support GPM Resolution to reduce violence by 50% in 2030
26 June 2020 - A key global priority is reducing violence of all forms, especially in cities. Over 600,000 people are killed every year around the world in situations of urban conflict, extremism, crime and [...]
Summary note webinar “The Right to Adequate Housing”
24 June 2020 - Webinar "The impact of COVID-19 on the right to adequate housing: local government perspectives", co-hosted by UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, and the Global [...]