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Defining the terms: developmentalism vs human rights and mother earth

Declaration for the Defence of our Territories

Rampant speculation, the basis for the new global economy, finds its engine of growth in cities. Urbanisation processes are presented as unavoidable and official agendas are based on this perception, in order to disguise how cities have turned into a commodity, an object of desire for the accumulation of capital. This has led us to ever more segregated and inequitable cities, reproducing the systematic violence of a patriarchal, racist and xenophobic system. In this model, access to services has become more of a privilege than a right.

The New Urban Agenda: the error of leaving the solution of challenges and commitments to the market

Ritaual de clausura del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (20 Octubre 2016) Through Resolution 66/207 on December 22, 2011, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided to convene the Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, to be held in Quito, Ecuador from October 17 to 20, 2016, with the aim of examining the global urban situation and approving a New Urban Agenda.

World Charter for the Right to the City

Marcha de inauguración del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (17 octubre 2016) PREAMBLE The new millennium dawned with half of the world’s population living in cities, and experts forecast that by 2050 the world’s urbanization rate will reach 65%. Cities are potentially territories with vast economic, environmental, political and cultural wealth and diversity. The urban way of life influences the way in which we link with our fellow human beings and with the territory.

El Manifiesto de Quito

Ritual de apertura del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (16 octubre 2016) ¿Quiénes hacen las ciudades? Las ciudades no las hacen los propietarios rentistas del suelo, ni los promotores especuladores, ni los constructores explotadores. No las hacen los bancos ni los fondos de inversión que venden mercancías para las clases solventes o productos averiados para el resto o para nadie. 

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).