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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 [...]
Global Urban Safety and Security
27 May 2020 - GPM Chair Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim, together with the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, the UN Human Settlements Programme, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, opened a two-day online conference on worldwide urban safety [...]
GPM supports CNCA Open letter to financial leaders
20 May 2020 - This week, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, in collaboration with the Global Parliament of Mayors, Eurocities, UK100, Alliance des Collectivites Pour la Qualite de l'Air, and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, [...]
Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
1 May 2020 - The pandemic will change urban life forever. Foreign Policy asked 11 leading global experts in urban policy, planning, history, and health for their predictions, read the outcome here: special cities edition [...]
GPM Supports Statement of Solidarity: Advancing Health, Reinforcing Peace
28 April 2020 - The GPM endorsed the Solidarity Statement 'Advancing Health, Reforcing Peace' by Peace in Our Cities. Mayors stand in solidarity with one another on the frontlines of response to COVID-19. Inspired [...]
Migrants and mayors are the unsung heroes of COVID-19. Here’s why
24 April 2020 - In every crisis it is the poor, sick, disabled, homeless and displaced who suffer the most. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Migrants and refugees, people who shed one life in [...]
Inside the #MayorsActNow Campaign
April 22, 2020 - The Global Parliament of Mayors initiated the Corona Crisis: Mayors Act Now Campaign to keep mayors informed and connected during the biggest global challenge of the 21st century, but pandemic preparedness [...]
Mayor Leoluca Orlando (Palermo) asks EU Mayors to support EU petition COVID-19
22 April 2020 - Call from Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo and GPM Executive Committee member: The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has recently declared that “we need a Marshall Plan [...]