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 global cities to their knees. In addition to the billions of people forced to work remotely are another billion living [...]
RESOLUTION ON REDUCING VIOLENCE IN CITIES
Coronamonitor 7 - 29 juni 2020 EN
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 interpersonal violence. In recent times, citizens across the country have stood up against race-based violence through demonstrations and unified protests. [...]
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 Parliament of Mayors. SPEAKERS, PANELLISTS, & RESPONDENTS (IN ORDER OF PARTICIPATION): Welcome • Sheila Foster, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of [...]
Webinar the Right to Adequate Housing The GPM and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing organised the webinar to discuss the importance of housing adequacy to ensure protection against COVID-19 and focus on challenges faced by local and regional governments to ensure access to safe housing, housing affordability and to prevent [...]
Safer Cities for All webinar report by UN Habitat & GPM
10 June 2020 – The world is watching the nation-wide demonstrations in the United States. Citizens across the country are standing up against violent acts of injustice. The demonstrations and unified acts of protests stem from the history of systemic economic inequality, political exclusion and the erosion of hope that have found expression in protests [...]
