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Sanctuary Cities are Critical to Managing the Global Refugee Crisis
Chicago, June 3, 2017 - The world is facing unprecedented and catastrophic levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21 million refugees and 41 million internally displaced persons. [...]
NEW MEMBER: Mayor Kasim Reed, Atlanta, USA
Atlanta, May 2017 – Atlanta’s Mayor Kasim Reed: “We are proud to join the Global Parliament of Mayors, an international network for sharing best practices, resources, and our cumulative talent. Around the world, cities are [...]
Guardian article about Dr. Barber’s last book on Climate Change
‘How to fix climate change: put cities, not countries, in charge: It can’t be left to dysfunctional nation states to tackle – but as Oslo and Seoul have shown, metropolitan centres can rise to the [...]
2017 Annual Convening Global Parliament of Mayors
From Sunday September 24 to Tuesday September 26, the 2nd Annual Convening of the GPM will be hosted by the City of Stavanger, Norway. The Annual Convening aims to bring together the GPM mayors from [...]
Dr Benjamin Barber – August 2 1939 – April 24 2017
New York, April 25 - Dr Barber, Founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors died on April 24th. In his last weeks, he wrote: “ Thank you, dear friends, for your leadership in the Global Parliament [...]
New Member: Mayor Roshaan Wolusmal, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Kandahar, April 2017 - Kandahar's Mayor Roshaan Wolusmal: "For the first time in human history, most of us live in cities. Researchers' predictions indicate that urbanization speed will further increase in almost all parts of the world. As [...]
New Member: Mayor Joan Ribó Canut, Valencia, Spain
Valencia, March 2017 - Valencia’s Mayor Joan Ribó Canut recently joined the Global Parliament of Mayors. Joan Ribó Canut has been the mayor of València since June, 2015. Mayor Ribó Canut is enthusiastic to join the GPM and aims at [...]
New Member: Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles, February 2017 - Mayor Eric Garcetti: “We are living at a time when the world has never been more connected, and when the leading challenges on the planet — economic development, safety and security, [...]
Empowering Cities Under The New US Administration
New York, February 2 - The NYUSPS Schack Institute of Real Estate Urban Lab’s formal kick-off event, “Empowering Cities Under the New Administration,” was held on February 2, 2017 and featured Benjamin Barber, founder and [...]
“Compacts like the Global Parliament of Mayors are now more important than ever”
Washington DC, December 28 - It was only three years ago that journalist Benjamin Barber argued in his book If Mayors Ruled the World that cities were better poised to solve global problems than national [...]