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power of we - 21/02/2023
The UCLG Retreat is the space in which the World Organization celebrates the foundations of our collective power and brings the network together. The first day of the Retreat stayed true to this purpose, celebrating the foundations of our collective power and presenting the renewed portal of UCLG, the “Power Of We”. The new face of UCLG to the world and connect them with the different parts of our network to enhance our collective intelligence, energy and capacity of action in the way forward.The UCLG Retreat is the space in which the World Organization celebrates the foundations of our collective power and brings the network together. The first day of the Retreat stayed true to this purpose, celebrating the foundations of our collective power and presenting the renewed portal of UCLG, the “Power Of We”. The new face of UCLG to the world and connect them with the different parts of our network to enhance our collective intelligence, energy and capacity of action in the way forward.
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- 17/12/2021
Dear members, partners, colleagues and friends,
It is a great pleasure to express my best wishes for the coming new year, as President of our World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments.
It is with great excitement and commitment that I undertake this task of governing president of... (+)
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- 29/11/2021
The 2021 World Council has seen the Co-president Thembisile Nkadimeng, former mayor of Polokwane, left her mandate at the end of the World Council 2021 after being appointed Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of South Africa.
Having been elected as Copresident at the UCLG... (+)
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Cities Are Listening - 19/11/2021
As part of the #CitiesAreListening experience, the experience on Cities and Fair Trade: alliances for economic equality, hosted by UCLG, FAMSI, and Fair Trade International, and with the support of the UCLG Local Economic Development Committee which took place on 3rd February, 2021, brought to the table the visions of building a world through proximity and solidarity, building on the #LiveLearningExperiences on local economic development.
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- 17/02/2023
On 6 and 7 February 2023, UCLG hosted the first in-person strategic workshop of the Action Coalition (AC) on Feminist Movements and Leadership. Convened by UN Women, the AC is one of six multi-stakeholder coalitions formed out of the Generation Equality Forum in 2021.
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- 20/12/2021
Given the frequency with which we talk about migration, we might wonder whether an International Migrants Day is necessary. However, it is precisely the public discourse on migration and not the natural and centuries-old phenomenon itself, that makes such an event necessary. On our telephones, on our computers, on television and the radio, borders are discussed daily. We wake up every day to news of tragedies involving groups of people traveling or living in subhuman conditions. We accept, we assume, that migrant and displaced populations will be the first to feel the impact of any crisis. We store in our collective imagination photographs of huge masses of people, often racialized, waiting in desperation to change their living conditions. And as terrible as it may seem to us, we rarely calculate that we could be those people.
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