Social Rights 01
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The Observatori Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales -DESC- is a platform for organizations and individuals from different disciplines and areas, created in 1998 and headquartered in Barcelona, which aims to show that both civil and political rights, as economic, social, cultural and environmental rights (ESCR) are fundamental rights of all people, promoting a comprehensive view of it. They deal with awareness and political impact tasks, publications, organization of courses and lectures, to motivate participation in different ways. |
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SostreCívic is a non-profit organization that aims to offer proposals and solutions applicable to a more just and respectful society. Its bet seeks equitable ethical values within the field of urban planning and access to housing in a non-speculative way. They work in a comprehensive manner in advising, promoting and managing access to habitat based on cooperative models of use, where the ownership lies in the hands of the cooperative and its members participate and enjoy an indefinite use of property right through affordable use. |
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Habitat for Humanity is a quarterly online publication that explores a theme related to the understanding of the causes of poverty in all matters relating to inadequate housing, and the implications on the lives of people around the world. It includes option to access the print edition. |
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Habitat International Coalition is a global network for the rights related to habitat. It practices its action through solidarity, joint and support for movements and social organizations. They struggle for social justice, gender equality and environmental sustainability, and they work for the defense, promotion and realization of human rights related to housing and land, both in the field and the city. |
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Hábitat Social is a collective composed of a heterogeneous group of professionals, mainly from the fields of architecture, urbanism and social sciences, organized to analyze, intervene and investigate from A Coruña the complex reality we inhabit. Its goal is to achieve a just society based on balanced community development through working with the material reality and the intervention with human dynamics. |
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Favelssues is a collaborative blog aimed to study informal urban planning at a global scale. Based on an interdisciplinary approach (sociologists, architects, planners, economists, political science experts, academics, aid workers,...) provides multiple perspectives (theoretical and practical) to the problems of urban growth, development and sustainability. |