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Over 300 UCLG members from over 40 countries gathered at the UCLG World Council, held in Dakar (Senegal) from 4th to 6th December 2012, at the kind invitation of Mayor Khalifa Sall and UCLGA. Local and regional leaders focused on discussing the impact of local and regional government’s daily work in development and called UCLG to work...
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United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG),is pleased to announce the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - 4th UCLG World Congress to be held from 1 to 4 October 2013 in the city of Rabat, Morocco. 2013 is a very symbolic year for our Organization. This event...
Over one hundred local and regional authorities came together during the first World Forum of Regions that took place in Dakar on 4th December 2012, at the joint invitation of the Presidents of United Cities and Local Governments and ORU-FOGAR, Kadir Topbas and Paul Carrasco. The World Forum of Regions brought...
United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) is celebrating World Human Rights day on the occasion of the First World Summit of Local Governments for the Right to the City, organized by the Committee for Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights.  The 1st World Summit of Local Governments...
The 2012 UN Climate Change Conference, COP 18 opens in Doha, Qatar, on Monday 26 November at the Qatar National Convention Centre and will continue until 7 December, with the participation of near 200 countries.  The climate negotiations have seen little progress since COP 15 in Copenhagen....
The Guangzhou Award jury announced the five Award winners: Kocaeli, Turkey, Lilongwe (Malawi), Seoul (South Korea), Vancouver (Canada) and Vienna (Austria). The Guangzhou Award opened under the presence of 800 participants from over sixty countries. The opening ceremony was chaired by Mayor...
We would like to recall that online consultations are still opened on thematics of high interest for local and regional governments, especially on inequalities, governance, environmental sustainability and population dynamics.    On Inequalities: To ensure that inequalities are addressed in the...
After three days of work during the 17th Miercociudades Summit in Quilmes (Argentina), members of Miercocuidades reaffirmed the sense of identity and cultural belonging to Merscosur, the commitment of local governments to reduce social inequalities, poverty and the reliance of Latin America...
The 32nd General Assembly of the International Association of Francophone Mayors opened this morning in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with the presence of the President of the Republic Mr Alassane Ouatara and with the participation of many representatives from the Ivory Coast and abroad. The main topic of the...
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The National League of Cities (NLC) today announced that Clarence E. Anthony has been named the association's new Executive Director. Anthony will assume the Executive Director role at NLC in early January 2013. He will direct the operations, initiatives and staff of the...
The 2012 Metropolis Board of Directors meeting held in Guangzhou was officially brought to a close on the 17 November, hosting over 500 national and international participants and urban thought leaders. One year after the launch of the Metropolis Initiatives, Guangzhou became the perfect occasion to present...
The four main European associations of local and regional government* are deeply concerned about the impact a reduction in the European Union budget would have on the future of cohesion policy.  They therefore call on national governments to maintain the cohesion budget at €339 billion, as proposed...
COMMITTEES, WORKING GROUPS, COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & FORA
Maputo City, UCLG Committee of Urban Strategic Planning, eThekwini municipality through MILE, Durban NGO Asiye Etafuleni, Brazilian cities and the ILO, organized and are currently holding a peer learning event on "the conditions of informal vendors in the city". This event brought together invited...
We are pleased to announce today the launch of the new website of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights: www.uclg.org/cisdp More accessible and attractive, the new portal has been conceived to facilitate from the home page an easier access to the website contents, which...
Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, and Anne Hidalgo, 1st Deputy Mayor of Paris and Chair of the UCLG Standing Committee on Gender Equality, would like to extend a warm invitation to participate in the Global Conference of Local Elected Women that will take place from Wednesday 30 January to Friday 1 February...
The UCLG Committee on Culture held its 8th meeting on 20th September 2012 in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and agreed on a new Board of the Committee:  Lille-Métropole was elected as President; the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montreal were elected as Co-Presidents, and the cities...
The UCLG Mediterranean Committee, the city of Marseille, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region along with all member networks of the Mediterranean Committee are organizing, with the help of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the 3rd Forum of Local and Regional Authorities of the Mediterranean...
Over 300 representatives from Tunisian and French local and regional authorities took part in the meetings on decentralized cooperation that took place in Monastir on the 8 and 9 November. These two friendly encounters were the occasion for French local and regional authorities to reaffirm their support...