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GPM Summit 2019 Video
The GPM Annual Summit 2019 was hosted by Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda and brought global city leaders and additionally networks and international experts together to discuss city leadership and key global challenges at a local [...]
Global Cities Lead Change
Read the news article written by Ethekwini City Council on GPM Global Leaders
The City of Braga (Portugal) first International GPM Talent Cities Hub in 2020
Braga/The Hague, November - At the Annual Summit 2019 of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM), Mayor Ricardo Rio (Braga, Portugal) presented Braga as model for the creation of the 1st [...]
Press release: A decade of change, shaping multilevel governance on a global scale
A decade of change: shaping multilevel governance on a global scale Durban, November 2019 – About 75 mayors and city network leaders from all around the world gathered in Durban last week to convene on [...]
Mayors Mannheim, Columbia, Hoima and Braga new Daily Board of the Global Parliament of Mayors
Durban, South Africa – Mayor Peter Kurz of Mannheim (Germany), Steve Benjamin of Columbia SC (USA), Grace Mary Mugasa of Hoima (Uganda) and Ricardo Rio of Braga (Portugal) are the new [...]
Mayor Pawel Adamowicz awarded with dr. Benjamin Barber Award 2019
The Hague, November 11, 2019 – The Global Parliament of Mayors posthumously awarded the prestigious Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award to late Mayor Pawel Adamowicz of the city of Gdansk, Poland. [...]
Gender Based Violence Side Event
During the GPM Summit 2019, host city Durban, eThekwini Municipality, is taking the lead on the important issue of Gender Based Violence (GBV) by organizing an interesting side event on 10 November from [...]
Press Release Fourth Ambitous Annual Summit
PRESS RELEASE Fourth ambitious Annual Summit of the Global Parliament of Mayors in Durban, South Africa, 9-11 November The Hague/Durban, 30 September 2019 – Mayors from African, Asian, European and US cities are signing up [...]
Mxolisi Kaunda appointed as Durban’s new mayor
Mxolisi Kaunda was sworn in as mayor of eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa) on Thursday 5th September. From 9-11 November Mxolisi Kaunda will be the host of the annual GPM Summit organized by the [...]
An Odyssey in the Mediterranean
For 19 days, from the port of Lampedusa a ship was visible, one that had been there, immobile for too long. The ship operated by the Spanish NGO Open Arms saved 161 migrants in [...]