Global Taskforce

📢 #Listen2Cities Our Annual Meeting is being held as part of the @uclg_org Retreat, where the following topics will be discussed: ➡️ Our Constituency towards the Multilateral Agenda ➡️ Key milestones & partnerships for 2026 ➡️ Fostering Ecological Transformation

CEMR at #CSW70! 🌍 Our spokesperson @Flo Clucas called for urgent action to make politics safe for women — locally & globally. 💥 32% of women in politics have experienced violence Flo’s message: ➡️ If women don’t feel safe, democracy suffers. 📘 Study: ccre-cemr.org/impactgoal-soc… #WomenInPolitics #GenderEquality #LocalGov

🟣#CSW70 #Listen2Cities Today the 2nd #LRGs Day went through Local Care Systems as a Renewed Political Framework for Equality, with: ✅The Local Social Covenant advancing equality ✅Local public services as commons 📷Go through it in pictures: flickr.com/photos/uclg/al…

🟣#CSW70 #Listen2Cities Equality, Justice and Democracy are built in our territories and neighboorhoods. This is where we care, defend rights, and strengthen resilience. This is the heart of our Feminist Municipal Movement. — Ana Falu, UCLG Ubuntu Advisor.

🟣#CSW70 #Listen2Cities To address care & gender inequalities, we must recognize capacities, with local multilateralism through UCLG and the @GlobalTaskforce of #LRGs playing a central role, alongside the need to drive legislation & structural change. Ana moreno, @GAllianceCare

#CSW70 #Listen2Cities Care systems are undervalued. We are committed to women participation in inclusive urban policies scaled to their needs. As per the Pact for the Future, #LRGs need to be further recognized in global policy making. Remy Sietchiping @UNHABITAT @unhabitat_ny

🟣#Listen2Cities #CSW70 🌐Nuestra meta: el ODS 11, con el cuidado como horizonte, construyendo una nueva organización social basada en la corresponsabilidad entre hombres y mujeres, y entre lo público y lo privado. 💬@MirenElgarresta, Directora de @emakundEJGV

🟣#CSW70 🤝As grassroots women, self-organised within the Huairou Commission we have been mapping tools to connect with #LRGs to advance Equality and Care systems throught contextualised mechanisms. 🗨️Violet Shivutse, Chair @HuairouConnect #Listen2Cities

🟣#Listen2Cities #CSW70 🗨️@UNDP Head of Gender Raquel Lagunas opens our last segment on local public services as commons & local care systems as equality infrastructure: Care systems are core infrastructure that transform local economies and advance a feminist agenda in action.

🟣#CSW70 #Listen2Cities 💬@ispcontram President Juneau Batista: Achieving common goals and building collective strategies towards caring systems is challenging in practice. This is why alliances need to be non-partisan and go beyond the logics of parties, as much as we can.

🟣#Listen2Cities #CSW70 The world is rapidly ageing. We need to look at care in local service provision as a critical component of the full cycle of life. 💬Katherine Kline, Cochair of @GAP_Urban Older Persons Constituency Group

🟣#Listen2Cities #CSW70 🌐Les alliances comme #HeForShe permettent aux #LRGs d'avancer vers des initiatives de formation et de financement pour soutenir le leadership et l'autonomisation des femmes. 🗨️Nelly Patricia Awa Ouassenan, Maire Adj. de Cocody, Coprésidente de @oidp_org

🟣#CSW70 #Listen2Cities Grassroots women must be at the center of local actions: local care & justice systems must be built to protect everyone's rights, health and safety, including women & girls'. Caryn Dasah, @_Nalafem, #GenerationEquality AC Feminist Movements & Leaderships

🟣#CSW70 #LRGs play an important role in facilitating learning knowlege of civil society and social movements. This is part of a commitment to justice anchored in community support, and that must inform multilateral processes 🗨️Liliane Nkuzimana, @NGO_CSW_NY Executive Committee

#Listen2Cities at #CSW70 Being a woman in local politics brings criticism but it also enables the building of care systems & coalitions that truely transform leadership. 💬María Antònia Serralta, Mayor @ajBunyola and President @FonsMallorqui

🟣#Listen2Cities at #CSW70 ⚧️When women lead, they build inclusive Local Public Services. 🌐Local women leadership needs to anchor UCLG Local Social Covenant, as a concrete commitment to advance feminist governance in practice. 💬Milka Moraa Ngare, President of REFELA-Kenya

🟣#CSW70 ⚧️Being here today, from the #GenerationEquality AC on Feminist Movements & Leaderships, is key to guide UCLG Local Social Covenant, build alliances and nurture local multilateralism. 💬Re’em Syeda Hussian @_Nalafem

🟣#Listen2Cities at #CSW70 ⚧️Despite deep inequalities and growing pressures, cities worldwide are advancing resilient, rights-based care through partnerships, multilevel governance, and women’s leadership. We need to keep supporting them. 💬@Rio_Hada from @UNHumanRights

🟣#Listen2Cities 🌐SG @UCLG_Saiz opens #LRGs Day 2 at #CSW70: Partnerships like @UNHumanRights are key for #LRGs to bring local perspectives into global debates—building multilateralism to advance care systems, equality, justice & democracy through local public services.

🟣#Listen2Cities 🌐Today the #CSW70 #LRGs Day focus on A Renewed Political Framework for Equality: Local Care Systems 👉Localizing Equality, Justice & Democracy: Women’s Political Power & the New Generation of Local Public Services towards #Tangier2026 women.uclg.org/local-and-regi…

🟣#Listen2Cities 🌐Ready for #CSW70 #LRGs Day 2: Localizing Equality, Justice and Democracy: Women’s Political Power and the New Generation of Local Public Services ✨On the agenda today: A Renewed Political Framework for Equality: Local Care Systems 👉women.uclg.org/local-and-regi…