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Friday 27 April 2012

Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages

NGO Global Forum, Río de Janeiro, 1992 The majority of HIC efforts in Rio within the NGO Global Forum were focused on the Urbanization Forum, organized in conjunction with FCOC (an Inter- American organization uniting urban movements from: Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the U.S.) and the Brazilian Urban Reform Forum, 1992. The result of the Forum is the Treaty titled Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages” negotiated among HIC, FCOC, and the Brazilian Urban Reform Forum and signed by more than 140 organizations from throughout the word. The Urbanization Treaty was one of about 30 independent sector treadles developed within the global Forum and promoted by the NGO international Task Force for UNCED as the most important outcome of the event.

no more neoliberal model of cities

It is possible to build new cities thanks to a new urban social pact centered on the citizens. The failure of the neoliberal model of cities.Thirty years after the first Habitat I world summit held in Vancouver, we, citizens of the world, have witnessed the manifest deterioration of our living conditions and unalienable rights.

G-20: Build a Global Social Pact for Equitable and Sustainable Habitat now!

On the occasion of the financial summit of the G 20 in Washington International housing rights alliances call for fundamental change of global financial architecture and financing habitat

Press statement, G-20: We Need a “Green New Deal”

To build a global social pact for equitable and sustainable habitat now!In response to the global financial & housing crisis, international housing rights alliances call for essential change of global financial architecture and habitat financing