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October 6, 2025 10:00 am

5th meeting of the UN Forum of Mayors

Palais des Nations, Geneva
The 5th meeting of the UN Forum of Mayors will take place on 6 and 7 October 2025 in Geneva. It is organized under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), with support from the Global Cities Hub.
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April 8, 2025 12:00 pm

Briefing on the 8th session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

Villa Rigot and online
This event, co-organized with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient 2030, aims to brief local and regional governments on the upcoming session of the GPDRR. It will be structured around three central topics: the important discussions relating to cities and urban disaster risk reduction, the participation of local and regional governments, and the potential outcomes of the session.
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July 7, 2025 12:00 am

WSIS+20 High-level Events & AI for Good Summit

Geneva and online
The rapid evolution of technology presents both significant opportunities and critical challenges for urban governance. To ensure our cities remain resilient, inclusive, and sustainable, we must proactively engage with emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and virtual worlds. The development of Smart Cities and the creation of CitiVerses open up new perspectives for LRGs by offering new tools and frameworks.
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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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February 21, 2025 8:00 am

Workshop on Urban Safety and Security, Sustainable Development, and Human Security

Upon invitation only
On 21 February 2025, the Global Cities Hub co-organizes with UN-Habitat the workshop “Cities and Human security: Urbanisation and Housing in an unstable world”. The workshop will address the growing human security challenges—including violent conflict, climate change, economic hardship, and persistent poverty—that increasingly impact the success of sustainable and affordable housing policies. A key focus of the discussions will be on underrepresented issues, such as the involvement of organised crime in housing and land-related crimes amid rapid urbanisation, as well as the effects of illicit economies on social cohesion and urban governance.
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February 19, 2025 10:15 am

Mayors’ panel at 4th Global WHO Ministerial Conference on road safety

Marrakech
GCH has been invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to open the Mayor’s Panel at the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, taking place in Marrakech from 18-20 February 2025. Notably, this Ministerial Conference will feature a dedicated plenary session on cities and mayors—a significant recognition of their crucial role in addressing road safety.
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