Hebron, May 2018 – Hebron's Mayor Taysir Abu Snienah : ” The Global Parliament of Mayors is a platform for all the cities in the world. It is cities that make peace and security and without that, there will be no development and prosperity. The GPM is an opportunity for cooperation and partnership [...]
. Malmö, 3 May 2018 - GPM Executive Committee Mayors Orlando (Palermo, Italy) and Rees (Bristol, UK) represented the Global Parliament of Mayors in the panel 'If Mayors ruled the World' at the Safe not Silent 2018 ICORN General Assembly in Malmö (Sweden). The panel is organised in cooperation with ICORN and discusses if [...]
Bristol, April 2018 - Mayor Rees personally invites you to join the Global Parliament of Mayors and attend the GPM Annual Summit. This year's Annual Summit takes place from 21-23 october in Bristol, UK.
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht have followed The Hague’s example in becoming members of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM), which promotes pragmatic solutions to global problems. Mayor Pauline Krikke of The Hague hopes that other cities will soon follow suit: “The larger the GPM is, the more effective its voice will be.” The worldwide [...]
Leicester, April 2018 - Leicester's Mayor Peter Soulsby: " I am proud to join the Global Parliament of Mayors, a network that I have seen grown since its inauguration in The Hague in 2016. The founder, the late Dr. Benjamin Barber whom I knew personally, was an inspiration to [...]
April 9, 2017, The Hague – Watch last week’s published TED talk on mastering global challenges by acting on the local level by Mayor Dr. Kurz from Mannheim, Vice Chair of the GPM Executive Committee. The TEDx Program is designed to help communities, organizations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through [...]
Monrovia, March 2018 - Monrovia's Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee: “Coming out of a fourteen yearlong brutal and destructive civil crisis and an almost two-year Ebola pandemic that broke down our social, political, and economic fabric of our city in particular and nation as a whole, I have come as a young man with [...]
Amman, 19-23 March 2018 - GPM Executive Committee member Mayor Wolusmal (Kandahar, Afghanistan) represented the Global Parliament of Mayors at the Centre for Mediterranean Integration during the workshop: "Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development". This event was organised in partnership with Greater Amman Municipality, the World Bank, UN-Habitat, [...]
The Hague, February 14 2018 - The GPM is proud to announce that the publication of its Annual Report 2017. The report illustrates how the GPM has grown, succesfully setting up its foundations in 2017, thanks to the support of GPM mayors representing all continents. Click here for the Annual Report. [...]
The Hague, February 8, 2018 - GPM is present at this year’s WORLD URBAN FORUM 9 @WUF9KL in Kuala Lumpur. GPM member Mannheim (Germany) will host two workshops. On February 10 "GPM as a Multiplier- Scaling the Mannheim Model of Implementing the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda on the City Level - Implement, Measure, Govern, [...]
