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UN Forum of Mayors to take place on 6-7 October 2025

The mandate of the UN Forum of Mayors has been extended on 9 December 2024, as a UN standing body with a unanimous decision. In doing so, Member States of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) acknowledged that the Forum has successfully allowed Mayors to contribute to the work of the UN.
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March 17, 2025 1:00 pm

Local and Regional Governments as Key Actors in Advancing Human Rights and the SDGs

Salle XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva
This side event will explore how LRGs can be further recognized and empowered as key human rights actors, building on recent Human Rights Council (HRC) resolutions, particularly HRC Resolution 57/12 on Local Government and Human Rights and HRC Resolution 51/33 on National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRFs). It will also reflect on insights from the Bologna Expert Roundtable on Data Planning and Collection by NMIRFs: the Role of LRGs, which underscored the need for greater policy coherence between local, national, and international human rights frameworks.
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Localizing financing for sustainable climate-responsive development

5 years from the deadline of Agenda2030 it is crystal clear that attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require the unlocking of local solutions, especially regarding climate-related efforts. In 2025 we will hear a lot about financing, including ‘Financing for Development’, ‘climate financing’ and ‘localization of financing’.
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Cities and Human Security: Urbanization and Housing in an Unstable World

On February 21, 2025, the Global Cities Hub and UN-Habitat organized a workshop on “Cities and Human Security: Urbanization and Housing in an Unstable World”. The purpose of the meeting was for Geneva-based partners to develop a way forward for consolidating their work with UN-Habitat, building on UN-Habitat’s legacy of 30 years of the safer cities programme and with due cognizance of its new strategic plan, which focuses on addressing the global housing crisis.
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Empowering Mayors to lead change on road safety, climate change and urban health.

On 19 February 2025, the Global Cities Hub (GCH) had the honour of opening a high-level Mayor’s Panel at the 4th WHO Global Ministerial Road Safety Conference, alongside city leaders from Paris, New York, Marrakech, and Guayaquil. With over 100 ministers from around the world in attendance and UN high-level officials like Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO Director General), Jean Todt (UN Special Envoy for Road Safety) and Tatiana Molcean (UNECE Executive Secretary), it was remarkable to see an international conference dedicate one of its plenary sessions specifically to cities and mayors—a testament to their central role in shaping global policy.

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