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“This is the single most important event at Habitat III”, says the panellist at the Cities, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction special session. The challenge of climate…
Abdur Rehman Cheema and Muhammad Ali Khan explore a recent opportunity for 'South-South learning' and call for further cooperation through regional bodies.
“I never thought…
Local and Regional governments publish a manifesto for deeper engagement with global politics.The modern world is changing rapidly. Trans-national and national governments…
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) makes a bold pledge that ‘no-one will be left behind’. A pledge which was unanimously reaffirmed in Monday’s High-Level Roundtable. This is a commitment…
Marc-Olivier P. Cantin surveys the profound foreign policy mutations that Canada is experiencing after a year under the Trudeau administration.‘We’re back’. It is with this…
Two days into the Habitat III conference public space (natural and built) has been discussed in terms of its importance for equitable, healthy, sustainable cities - making them…
The UN challenges governments to address housing as a human rights issue, but speakers admit they are at the mercy of the free market.
Day one of the Habitat III conference has…
In taming the climate crisis, the crude reality is that the interplay between politics, economics and culture figures prominently, which is another way of saying that the profound…
This week the UN Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development is underway in Quito, Ecuador. Eight students from the University of Sheffield will be working…
Amy F. Woolf explores the implications of a possible no first use policy in the US.
In July 2016, reports in U.S. newspapers indicated the Obama Administration considered adopting…