Advancing the Right to the City
In order to contribute to the process of building a global platform for the Right to the City and creating international strategies for incorporating it into the new International Urban Agenda post 2015 (the Sustainable Development Objectives and the Habitat III) there will be an International Meeting on the Right to the City in São Paulo, Brazil, from November 12-14 2014.
The Event
In order to confront the fundamental political, economic, social, cultural and environmental challenges that exist in our cities we need to push the global debate on content and strategies to materialize the right to the city, and continue to push for the regional construction of this content.
During the next few years a new International Urban Agenda will be built due to processes underway to define the post 2015 Agenda for the Millennium and the Sustainable Development Objectives that were a challenge during the Rio+20 in 2012 and the Habitat III Conference on Human Settlements. In order to contribute to this process of building a global platform for the Right to the City and creating international strategies for incorporating it into the new international agenda, there will be an International Meeting on the Right to the City in the regional and international context in São Paulo from November 12-14.
Purposes of the meeting
The objectives of the Meeting are as follows:
- Build a Global Platform on the Right to the City that enhances principles, themes, commitments, goals and indicators;
- Build a Common Agenda for Action, Articulation and Social Mobilization in order to strengthen the international movement for the right to the city as well the acknowledgment of this right before international and local governments and United Nations institutions;
- Strengthen international articulation and mobilization for the construction of a Global Platform on the Right to the City, to be presented during the debates concerning the Sustainable Development Goals Post-2015. This Platform will also be presented at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Urban Development (Habitat III), in 2016, and before global and regional systems for the protection of human rights;
- Carry out an evaluation of the International Research on Forms of Implementing the Right to the City results in cities of Latin America, Africa and Europe;
- Dialogue with different views and definitions of the right to the city (according to various actors, regions, countries and cities). Advance towards a common position taking into account existing advances during the elaboration and review of the World Charter for the Right to the City;
- Review the contents of the World Charter on the Right to the City;
- Share experiences on social struggles and implementing tools for the right to city.
Schedule
Nov 12 Wed
First day - Eventos Abertos ao Público - Nov 12 / 09:00 – 22:00
09:00 am to 10:00 pm - Opening Ceremony: International Meeting on the Right to the City
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) Law School’s Grand Hall
Largo São Francisco, 95 – Centro, São Paulo/SP, CEP: 01005-010
09:00 am to 12:00 pm Parallel events, open for the public:
Seminar: Safe Cities for Women
Venue: Centro de Convivência Educativa e Cultural de Heliópolis – Estrada das Lágrimas, 2.385 – Heliópolis- São Paulo – SP
Organizer: ActionAid
Objective : International roundtable of dialogues and exchange of experiences on struggles against VAW and harassment in the cities, the relation with violation of their rights of the city and poor quality public services.
Participants:
- Drama play on Safe Cities for Women by LRP UNAS
- Ms. Ana Paula Ferreira – ActionAid Brazil
- Ms. Cleide Alves & Ms. Lidia Tavares – ActionAid Brazil LRP partner UNAS
- Ms. Dorothy Brislin – ActionAid South Africa
- Ms. Do Hanh Chi e Ms. Pham Thi Minh Hang - ActionAid Vietnam (TBC)
- Ms. Rose Molokoane – Shack Slum Dwellers International
- Ms. Poornima Chikarmane - Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat
- Ms. Soha Ben Slama – International Alliance of Inhabitants – Tunisia
- Ms. AnaClaudia & Mr. William Cobbet – Cities Alliance
10:00 am to 01:00 pm - Panel: Right to the City and Urban Conflicts
Speakers:
- William Nozaki, Sao Paulo City Hall /Secretariat on Human Rights and Citizenship of Sao Paulo – Brazil
- Pat Horn, StreetNet International
- Teodor Celakoski, Croatian Right to the City
- Cesar Wilfrido Cardenas Ramirez, Citizen Observatory on Public Services Guayaquil – Ecuador
- Ana Sugranyes, CLACSO – Chile
Moderators: Daniela Campos Liborio di Sarno, Brazilian Institute of Urban Law – Brazil
Organizer: Brazilian Institute of Urban Law
01:00 pm to 02:30 pm - Lunch break
02:30 pm to 6:30 pm - Panel: Evaluation of the International Research on the Current Status of the Right to the City and its Forms of Implementation
Speakers:
- Giovanni Alegretti, Centre for Social Studies, at the University of Coimbra – Portugal
- Alfred Omenya, Eco-Build Africa – Kenya
- Adoné Kitching, Isandla Institute – South Africa
- Joseph Schechla, Housing and Land Rights Network Habitat International Coalition
- Paulo Romeiro, Polis Institute – Brazil
- William Cobbett, Cities Alliance – United States
- Alison Brown, Urban Planning & International Development School of Planning & Geography, Cardiff University
- Fernando Carrion, Faculdade Latino-americana de Ciências Sociais FLACSO – Equador
Moderators:
- Maria Silvia Emanuelli, Habitat International Coalition América Latina
- Nelson Saule Júnior, Polis Institute – Brazil
Organizers: Habitat International Coalition and Polis Institute
07:30 pm to 10:00 pm - Panel: The struggle of social movements and strategies for achieving the right to the city
Speakers:
- S’bu Zikode, Abahlali baseMjondolo – South Africa
- Maarten Thiele, Right to the city movement of Hamburg – Germany
- Kareem Ibrahim, Takween Integrated Community Development - Cairo, Egypt
- Rose Molokoane, Shack Slum Dwellers International (SDI)
- Donizete Fernandes, FNRU (National Forum on Urban Reform) – Brazil
- Meena Menon, ActionAid – India
- Lenina Nadal, Right to the City Alliance
- Cesare Ottolini, International Alliance of Habitants (AIH) – Italy
- Jaime García, Urban Popular Movement of Mexico
Moderators: Letícia Osório, Program Officer /Human Rights, Ford Foundation – Brazil
Nov 13 Thu
Second day - Eventos restritos aos 200 Convidados e Inscritos. Nov 13 / 09:00 – 21:00
09:00 am to 11:00 am - Panel: The Relevance of a Global Platform on the Right to the City in the achievement of Fair, Democratic And Sustainable Cities
Venue: Hotel San Raphael - Largo do Arouche, 150, Centro - São Paulo – SP, Brasil
Speakers:
- Edesio Fernandes, Development Planning Unit/DPU da University College London e Lyncol Institute – England
- Bartiria Lima, National Forum on Urban Reform – Brazil
- Lorena Zarate, Habitat International Coalition – Mexico
- Maurício Broinizi, Red Latinoamericana por Ciudades Justas, Democráticas y Sustentables
- Representative of the UN Habitat
- Antonio Aniesa, CGLU
- Shin Gyonggu, Guangju International Centre – South Korea
11:15 am to 12:30 pm - Panel: Right to the City and the Sustainable Development Goals - Post 2015 Development Agenda
Speakers:
- Maruxa Cardama, Communitas
- Jane Katz, Habitat for Humanity International – United States
- Yuri Della Giustina, Secretaria Nacional de Acessibilidade e Programas Urbanos/Ministry of Cities – Brazil
- Júnia Santa Rosa, Secretaria Nacional de Habitação/MCidades – Brasil
- Fernanda Vasconcelos, BID (Interamerican Banc of Development)
12:30 pm - Lunch Break
02:00 pm to 16:00 pm - Workshops:
Human Rights in the City
Organizers: Habitat International Coalition, UCGLU Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, ActionAid
Participatory and Democratic Governance in the Cities
Organizers: National Front of Mayors, Brazilian Association of Municipalities, Sao Paulo City Hall, Global Fund for the Development of the Cities, Fundación Avina
Urbanization, Sustainable Use of the Territory and Social Inclusion
Organizers: Cities Alliance, National Forum on Urban Reform and Habitat for Humanity, Shack Dwellers International (SDI)
Economical Development and Social Inclusion in the Cities
Organizers: Fundación Avina, WIEGO, SDI
04:00 pm to 04:20 pm - Coffee break
04:20 pm to 06:00 pm - Workshops:
Human Rights in the City
Organizers: Habitat International Coalition, UCGLU Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, ActionAid
Participatory and Democratic Governance in the Cities
Organizers: National Front of Mayors, Brazilian Association of Municipalities, Sao Paulo City Hall, Global Fund for the Development of the Cities, Fundación Avina
Urbanization, Sustainable Use of the Territory and Social Inclusion
Organizers: Cities Alliance, National Forum on Urban Reform and Habitat for Humanity, Shack Dwellers International (SDI)
Economical Development and Social Inclusion in the Cities
Organizers: Fundación Avina, WIEGO, SDI
06:00 pm - Documentaries on Fair, Democratic and Sustainable Cities
Wanderers
Synopsis : With the intention of deepening the discussion on urban mobility, two drag queens hit the streets in the Federal District of Brazil in order to know the everyday challenges faced by local residents. In each and every space through which they pass, the drag queens compose new forms of perception about urban mobility, bringing, at once, a discussion on women’s safety and integrity on public transportation, the space for LGBT community and the integration to the city.
Director: Gustavo Freitas, Universidade de Brasilia
The City is for Everyone
Synopsis : The documentary “The City is for Everyones” attends to the protest that took massive crowds to the streets in June/2013 in Brazil. It is a reflection about the expansion of democratic culture, about the state of public services in the city and the new political strategies at stake.
Director: Amanda Kamanchek, Pólis Institute
Dear Mandela
Synopsis : Dear Mandela brings us into the everyday lives of three dynamic leaders of the movement. Determined to stop the evictions, Mazwi, Zama and Mnikelo met with their communities by candlelight to study and debate new housing legislation. The shack dwellers discovered that the innocuous-sounding Slums Act legalized mass evictions and violated the rights enshrined in the country’s landmark Constitution. They challenged the Slums Act all the way to the highest court in the land – the hallowed Constitutional Court.
Director: Dara Kell
Nov 14 Fri
Third day - Eventos restritos aos 200 Convidados e Inscritos. Nov 14 / 09:00 – 21:00
09:00 am to 09:30 am - Presentation of Guidelines for Achieving a Global Platform Agenda on the Right to the City
09:30 am to 12:30 pm - Working Groups: Global Platform Agenda on the Right to the City – Organizational and Mobilization Plan
Group 1 – Forms of Incidence of the Global Platform Right to the City
Organizers: Habitat International Coalition, SDI, International Alliance of Inhabitants
Group 2 – Research, training and capacity building on the Right to the City
Organizers: Polis Institute, Research Group on Right to the City/CLACSO, Avina
Group 3 – Communication, Raise-Awareness and Cultural Dimension of the Global Platform on the Right to the City
Organizers: ActionAid, Habitat for Humanity and Cities Alliance
Group 4 – Articulation and Alliances of the Global Platform on the Right to the City
Organizers: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), UCGLU (Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights) and Cities Alliance
12:30 pm - Lunch Break
02:00 pm to 04:00 pm - Session: Evaluation of the Global Platform on the Right to the City Workshops
- Marcelo Montenegro, ActionAid – Brazil
- Eduardo Tadeu Pereira, ABM (Brazilian Association of Municipalities) – Brazil
- Renata Castro Boulos, ABM (Brazilian Association of Municipalities) – Brazil
- Jules Dumas Nguebou, AIH – Francophone Africa / Réseau National des Habitants du Cameroun
04:00 pm to 04:20 pm - Coffee Break
04:20 pm to 06:30 pm - Session: Building a Global Platform on the Right to the City Agenda – Organizational Plan and Mobilization
- Thea Gelbspan, ESCR-NET
- Representative of International Alliance of Inhabitants
Info
From 12th-14th of November, 2014
City of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Email: eidc@polis.org.br
Phone number: (55) 11 2174 6814
12h of November:
Address: University of São Paulo (USP) Law School’s Grand Hall
Largo São Francisco, 95 – Centro, São Paulo – SP, CEP: 01005-010
Phone: (11) 3111-4000
13th and 14th of November
Address: San Raphael Hotel
Largo do Arouche,150, Centro – 01219-903, São Paulo – SP, Brasil
Phone: (11) 3334-6000
Proposers
Fórum Nacional de Reforma Urbana (Brazilian National Urban Reform Forum)
Habitat International Coalition
Pólis – Instituto de Estudos, Formação e Assessoria em Políticas Sociais
São Paulo City Hall – International Relations Secretariat and Federative Relations/ Secretariat on Human Rights and Citizenship of Sao Paulo
UCGLU Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights
Brazilian Association of Municipalities
National Front of Mayors
FMDV – Global Fund for the Cities Development
ActionAid
Brazilian Institute of Urban Law
International Alliance of Inhabitants
Cities Alliance
Habitat for Humanity
WIEGO – Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
SDI – Shack Slum Dwellers International
Avina
Ford Foundation
Ministry of Cities