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2018: Long live the Inhabitants R-Existences in Solidarity!
Best wishes from/for all inhabitants of rural and urban areas who R-Exist: who Fight and Resist to Exist, Dream, Love, Live in solidarity to Build Alternative Social Pacts for the Living Well in Peace and Democracy!We wish you the very best while counting on your support!
Municipal workers: the invisible, underpaid people who run our cities
Workers in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Millions of staff clean our streets and keep our cities moving. It’s time to recognise their contribution to the everyday fabric of our urban lives
Best Wishes for the New Year in 2017. May all inhabitants live well with Mother Earth!
Best wishes for all inhabitants of rural and urban areas who dream, love, live, and build, who fight together in solidarity and stand up for an alternative way. We wish you the very best while counting on your support!
Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda will not deliver unless it creates decent work and fully includes trade unions and workers
Over 70 people attended Habitat III’s Trade Union and Workers Roundtable
held on 18 October 2016 by a joint international trade union and allies delegation headed by Public Services International (PSI) and Building and Woodworkers International (BWI).
Sign the Petition for the Right to the City!
We need more voices from across the globe to make us heard: please sign now our Global Call
and share #SupportRight2City
to show to world leaders that we need REAL, STRONG and CONCRETE commitments from the New Urban Agenda. Make sure you are heard!
Message to Habitat III: it's a scandal the “New Urban Agenda” is ignoring the economic frames of the global housing crisis
Members of the “international working group for the promotion of market regulation and market alternatives at Habitat III” have sent a very critical message to the participants at third prepcom of Habitat III (Surabaya, 25-27 July 2016), pointing out that it is a really scandal that the draft of the “New Urban Agenda” still keeps totally silent about the development and crisis of globalized markets. To face evictions because the mortgage and housing crisis, the public and municipal debt and poverty as a consequence of structural adjustment programs, privatisation and austerity, it should be introduced the regulation of financial and property markets, especially the rent control, taxation of transactions and private insolvency.Those issue will instead be at the center of the People's Social Forum Resistance to Habitat III (Quito, 17-20 october 2016)
Global call: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations.
World Habitat Day 2015, Statement of the Global Platform for the Right to the City
In the context of the preparatory process towards the Habitat III and the parallel World Urban Social Forum (Quito, October 2016), we launch a strong call for the inclusion of the Right to the City as the cornerstone of the New Urban Agenda and of the responsibility of all the actors for its implementation.
Museo de los desplazados: el cine de ficción
Ficción Inmobiliaria
recopila material formado por películas de ficción donde las problemáticas asociadas a la cuestión de la vivienda aparecen en la trama principal o cruzadas con ésta.
La ficción rara vez trata sobre lugares; en la ficción importa la historia. Pero si atendemos a la localización, sin dejar de prestar atención a la trama, podremos acceder a parte del conocimiento fílmico
almacenado en la imagen audiovisual. Analicemos ese residuo de conocimiento objetivo del contexto filmado:
What you need to know about the global refugee crisis
We are witnessing the largest and most rapid escalation ever in the number of people being forced from their homes. In 2014, an average of 42,500 people were displaced every day.
Millions of people are fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, as well as persecution in areas of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, creating the highest level of displacement since World War II.
The world desperately needs to come up with better responses to this global crisis. Here are some of the population movements that IRIN has covered in the last year alone: