• 20/09/2010
  General Assembly of the UN on Millenium Development Goals
  New York, USA

• 23/09/2010
  NLC Annual Leadership Summit: Leading the Charge of Leadership in Local Government
  Philadelphia, USA

• 07/10/2010
  7 Conference on the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City
  Tuzla, Bosnia

• 19/10/2010
  UCLG ASPAC Congress
  Hamamatsu, Japan

• 17/11/2010
  3rd UCLG Congress - World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders 2010
  Mexico City, Mexico

After more than 15 years of a worldwide campaign led by Bolivia, the United Nations recognized the right to drinkable water as a fundamental right. The resolution was adopted with 122 votes in favor and 41 abstentions at the UN General Assembly. This historic step voices deep concern on the 884 million people that do not have ...

Secretary-General of UN Ban Ki-moon nominated Joan Clos, former mayor of Barcelona, Spain, and one of the Founding Fathers of the World Organization, as the next head of the United Nations agency tasked with promoting environmentally and socially sustainable cities and towns, a key partner of UCLG on the international agenda.+ info

The Summit of the Millennium Development Goals shall take place from 20-22 September 2010, at the United Nations General Assembly, at United Nations Headquarters in New York. In the framework of the preparation of the event, a MDG Summit Outcome Document is being negotiated daily until the end of July by national government rep...

During the Development Cooperation Forum held in New York on 29-30 June, Elisabeth Gateau, Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments, in the name of its members, stated the Key Messages of Local and...