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DESCRIPTION:The Right to the City: Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda\n\n
 Lorena Zárate\, President of Habitat International Coalition (HIC)\n\n\n\n
 \n\nLorena Zárate studied History at the National University of La Plata\,
  Argentina\, and worked as a member of the editing and publishing team for
  the Centre for Environmental Studies and Projects (Fundación CEPA-Centro 
 de Estudios y Proyectación del Ambiente)\, the Latin American Forum for En
 vironmental Studies (Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales-Cátedra 
 UNESCO para el Desarrollo Sustentable) and the journal\, Environment.\n\nS
 ince 2000\, she became part of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) t
 eam in Mexico City to help in organizing the first World Assembly of Inhab
 itants. Between 2003 and 2011\, Lorena worked as the Coordinator of the HI
 C-Latin American Regional Office and she is currently HIC President at glo
 bal level.\n\nShe has been involved in the elaboration and dissemination o
 f the World Charter on the Right to the City\, the consultation process to
  define the Mexico City Human Rights Program\, and the Promoting Committee
  for the elaboration of the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City.
 \n\nAt international level\, during the past decade she has been in close 
 collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Hous
 ing as well as with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Right
 s for the elaboration of thematic reports and recommendations for national
  and local governments on how to improve security of tenure\, land and hou
 sing rights and the right to the city worldwide.\n\nShe has co-edited and 
 published books and articles in Latin America\, North America and Europe o
 n issues related to housing rights\, social production and management of h
 abitat and the right to the city. She has participated as a speaker in num
 erous workshops\, seminars and conferences in more than 20 countries\, in 
 particular within the framework of the World Urban Forum and the World Soc
 ial Forum.\n\nShe has given presentations and public lectures at universit
 ies in Argentina\, Bolivia\, Canada\, Colombia\, Ecuador\, France\, Mexico
 \, South Korea\, Spain\, Sweden\, Switzerland and USA. In 2013\, she was a
 warded the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitorship from the Geography and
  Urban Planning Program at the University of Toronto.\n\n \n\n\n\nHabitat 
 International Coalition (HIC) is a global\, independent and nonprofit netw
 ork for the defense\, promotion and realization of the right to a safe pla
 ce to live in peace and with dignity\, both in urban and rural areas. Esta
 blished in 1976 in Vancouver\, Canada (within the framework of UN conferen
 ce on human settlements\, Habitat I)\, it consist today of more than 350 N
 GOs\, CBOs\, scholars\, research and education institutions\, as well as h
 uman rights activists working in more than 120 countries. Through solidari
 ty\, networking and support for social movements and organizations\, and i
 nfluencing the public policies and the international agenda\, HIC works to
  achieve social justice with focus on four central objectives: advance tow
 ards gender equality and equity\; defend and promote the right to a health
 y environment\; support the social production and management of habitat\; 
 address violations of the human right to an adequate standard of life (inc
 luding land\, housing\, water and food). HIC has a longstanding consultati
 ve status at the UN-ECOSOC.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:rm. 212\, CA\, Macdonald-Harrington Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\
 , 815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:LECTURE - Lorena Zárate
URL:/channels/event/lecture-lorena-zarate-255664
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