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7th Welt Urban Forum
From the 6. to the 11. of April 2014, the Seventh World Urban Forum will take place in Medellin, Colombia. The Forum, which occurs every two years, since it´s foundation in 2002 by the United Nations Program for Human Settlements, promotes Urban sustainable development and addresses the most urgent problems of urban development. The theme for this years Urban Forum is "Urban Equity in Development-Cities for Life".
It is a fact that urban inequality has been rising, specially since more than two thirds of the world population live in cities. The inequalities create invisible boarders in city where that tend to create social, cultural and economic exclusion. The Seventh World Urban Forum, in Medellín, wants to aboard the question of how can cities development help overcome inequality. It is the space where diverse actors related to the urban and sustainable development will come together to discuss how the cities of today and tomorrow will address inequalities.
Peter Götz as President of the Global Parliamentarians on Habitat GPH has been invited by the United Nations to preside a Round Table just for parliamentarians. Parliamentarians from all around the world will come together under the conduction of Mr. Götz to discuss the issue ‘Urban equity in Development-Cities for Life: The role of parliamentarians.’ The GPH is an association of parliamentarians that are most engaged with the issues of sustainable human settlements.
Parliamentarians have a special role in the urban development debate because they are called to give the cities the best instruments that will account for the positive and equal development of urban settlements.