[homeles_ot-l] 30 avril 2013 | April 30, 2013 - The Right to the City, more than a slogan: from the international movement to the Mexico City Charter

[Michael Shapcott]

FYI - please see below for an interesting and important presentation in Ottawa on Tuesday by Lorena Zarate of the Habitat International Coalition on the right to the city and the Mexico City Charter.

- Michael

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Michael Shapcott, Director of Housing and Innovation
The Wellesley Institute
#300 - 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4V 3B2
Telephone - 416-972-1010, x231
Mobile - 416-605-8316
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
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*Presentation will be in English | En anglais seulement
Le Centre de recherche et d’enseignement sur les droits de la personne<http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/?lang=fr> vous invite à une présentation donnée par Lorena Zárate intitulée « The Right to the City, more than a slogan: from the international movement to the Mexico City Charter<http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/?p=6941&lang=en> »
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre<http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/index.php> invites you to a presentation by Lorena Zárate entitled “The Right to the City, more than a slogan: from the international movement to the Mexico City Charter<http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/?p=6941&lang=en>”
Tuesday April 30, 2013
11:30-13:00
Fauteux 550, 57 Louis-Pasteur room 570
RSVP: HRREC at uottawa.ca<http://us.mc1260.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=HRREC@uottawa.ca>

Guest Speaker:
Lorena Zárate, President, Habitat International Coalition & John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor, Spring 2013, Department of Geography, University of Toronto

Abstract:
The Right to the City is much more than a slogan in Latin America. The social mobilization, academic research and public debates about urban reform date back more than 50 years in the region. In some countries, national and local legal instruments and public policies have been developed over time, including the City’s Statute in Brazil (2001) and the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City (2010). Those processes, explicitly linked to urban reform struggles, are also inscribed in the global movement related to the construction of and advocacy for the World Charter on the Right to the City (2005).

In 1948, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed, the world population was predominantly rural. Today, more than half of world inhabitants live in cities. What specific challenges poses the urbanization process to the “classic” human rights approach? What are the main contents and contributions of the right to the city proposals?





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