The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights in the context of COVID-19
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Newsletter nº2 | April 20-26
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« Live Learning Experience #BeyondTheOubtreak by UCLG: Guaranteeing migrants’ rights in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and answering to their needs »
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Protecting migrants is a key issue raised by many local authorities in the context of the pandemic. This includes finding ways to adapt communication on public health measures, ensuring access to right to health and food, coordinating actions with local associations and raise awareness on the urgency of the situation at different spheres of government. One of the last Learning Experiences organized by UCLG and the MC2CM project addressed many of these issues, highlighting the answers and difficulties experienced by local governments on this matter as well as the emergence of unprecedented logics of solidarity.
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« Challenges and responses to COVID-19: A local perspective from the cities of Sfax and Douala »
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This week, the deputy mayor of Sfax (Tunisia) on decentralized cooperation and international relations, Mr. Med Wajdi Aydi; as well as the deputy mayor of Douala 3 (Cameroon), Mr. Achille Azemba, share those various initiatives put in place within their territories with a view to fight the pandemic and protect the most vulnerable groups, in particular migrant residents, in connection with the thematic session #BeyondTheOutbreak of UCLG organized on this topic this same week.
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« Barcelona’s Municipal Immigration Council calls for an extraordinary regularization of migrants in an irregular situation »
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An official communiqué has recently been published by Barcelona’s Municipal Immigration Council calling for an extraordinary regularization of migrants in an irregular administrative situation. In the framework of this initiative, eleven migrants are calling, through a social media campaign, for extraordinary measures to be taken to protect these residents and guarantee their rights. In addition, and according to the same press release, “this regularization would allow these people to access the job market and would thus contribute to the fight against the crisis caused by the pandemic”
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« Mapping location action against COVID-19 from the point of view of human rights and the right to the city »
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The Global Platform for the Right to the City and the COiNVITE project are launching a joint initiative aimed at mapping local actions launched in response to COVID-19 from a point of view based on human rights and the right to the city. The UCLG-CSIPDHR encourages its members to contribute to this process by sharing their initiatives on this issue or by distributing this questionnaire to civil society organizations with which they work. You can contribute to this process by filling out the attached questionnaire.
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We also remind you that the “Cities for Global Health” bank of practices launched by Metropolis and the AL·LAS Project as part of the #BeyondTheOutbreak initiative is still open to contributions from local governments, already bringing together more than 300 practices on this issue. You can submit your own practice by clicking on the link below.
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« The Global Platform for the Right to the City holds its first two assemblies on the COVID-19 »
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On April 17 and 23, hundreds of representatives of civil society, social movements and human rights defenders from around the world came together to reflect on the challenges posed by the current pandemic and activate an international space for exchange. Issues like of housing, popular economy, health or the right to life were at the center of discussions. The UCLG-CISDPDH shared, during the second assembly, how UCLG is helping gain visibility to responses provided by local governments in this context, as well as the commitment of many members to fight against inequalities after the crisis and contribute through that to build fairer, more sustainable and more solidary cities.
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COLLABORATIVE PRESS REVIEW
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Members and partners of the UCLG-CSIPDHR are invited to share their inspiring or critical readings and press articles concerning the role of local authorities face to COVID-19, including some of the main themes addressed by the Committee in this context: inequalities, human rights, participatory democracy, social inclusion, right to the city...
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- Le confinement vu de Grigny, l’une des villes le plus pauvres de France, LCI, 23 April 2020 (in French, shared by @PRIO91350 - Grigny)
- Coronavirus : entre l’Etat et les collectivités locales, une coopération pas toujours tranquille, Le Monde, 23 April 2020 (in French, shared by @StephanTroussel - Seine Saint Denis)
- El servei valencià per a frenar els maltractaments atén 25 homes durant el confinament: “L’aïllament és un factor de risc”, El Diario CV, 22 avril 2020 (in Catalan, shared by @FerranSenent - Valencia)
- La crisis de la COVID-19 y el discurso de odio contra personas asiáticas y gitanas, Público, 20 April 2020 (in Spanish, shared by @BCN_CiutatdeDrets - Barcelona)
- Spanish mayors call for investment in public services in coronavirus' aftermath. The Guardian, 18 April 2020 (in English, shared by @AdequateHousing - UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing)
- ¿Donde estar en tiempos de pandemia? Hemisferio Izquierdo, 18 April 2020 (in Spanish, shared by @SilvanaPissano - Montevideo)
- El respeto a los derechos humanos en el estado de alarma, El Pais, 17 April 2020 (in Spanish, shared by @BCN_CiutatdeDrets - Barcelona)
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PRÓXIMAS INICIATIVAS Y EVENTOS
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