Abdessamad Sekkal, President of the Moroccan region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and of ORU Fogar, travelled to Barcelona to hold the first official meeting with the Secretariat General and to begin preparations for the 2017 statutory meetings.
The President travels to Rome to meet with the Italian regions
After his visit to the Secretariat in Barcelona, ORU's new President travelled to Italy to meet with Stefano Bonaccini, President of the Conferenza delle Regioni Uniti, with the mission of strengthening...
The first indigenous autonomy is born in Bolivia
The Guarani population of Charagua Iyambae offically became Bolivia’s first Autonomous Indigenous and Aboriginal Farming Community, through the citizens’ vote and after years of fighting to regain self-governance.
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The Global Taskforce of local and regional governments, beyond Habitat III
Twenty years separate the second (Istanbul, 1996) and third (Quito, 2016) editions of the UN Conference on Human Settlements. In the course of these two long, intense decades local and regional authorities have undertaken a twofold effort. First, an effort to improve their articulation, creating one single voice to speak to the world.
