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Seas At Risk @seasatrisk.bsky.social · May 27

We're going to #UNOC3 in Nice! ☀️🇫🇷

Catch us from 7–12 June at key events on ocean action, starting with the #BlueMarch2025💙

Full schedule: seas-at-risk.org/events/sar-u... #SARatUNOC

Seas At Risk @ UNOC3 - Seas At Risk

This June, Seas At Risk will be at UNOC3. Join us! Heads of state and high-level policy-makers are flocking to the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) to make decisions on the future of the oc...

seas-at-risk.org

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · May 28

100 local governments officials & practitioners came together to discuss care-infrastructure. It is energizing to see this level of commitment for a positive agenda that can change lives of people for the better. Follow our work here. #GOLDVII @uclg.bsky.social

www.uclgmeets.org/processes/Co...

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · May 27

🟣Future Envisioning Exercise on Care

@emiliasaiz.bsky.social, UCLG’s SG

💬 Care is both an aspiration & an inspiration. It’s the prism through which we can imagine the public service of the future. To build a new economy, care must be at its 💜: shaping new essentials, new ways of serving.

#GOLDVII

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Pau Solanilla @pausolanilla.bsky.social · May 7

Decía Jacques Delors, nadie se enamora de Europa por su "mercado único".

Tampoco lo conseguiremos con una política de seguridad y de defensa común (que es imprescindible).

Lo conseguiremos con un relato audaz de la utopía de la Europa en paz y diversa.
www.thenewbarcelonapost.com/barcelona-y-...

Barcelona y Europa como utopías imprescindibles

Occidente tal y como lo conocíamos ya no existe. Con estas palabras y un cierto desconcierto, describía la actual presidenta de la Comisión Europea,

www.thenewbarcelonapost.com

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Apr 2

🟡 #UCLGMeets Our Executive Bureau Business Session is about to begin!

On the agenda:
🌍 The state of the global municipal movement
🏛️ #LRGs at the frontline of democracy
🤝 Forging the new social contract
💰 Local finance as a pillar of development & multilateralism

#SevillaWorldForumLED

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Apr 1

🔴 Capacity building & local co-responsibility for endogenous development

@emiliasaiz.bsky.social, SG UCLG

💬 We need to create a wide UN system for localisation of the Pact of the future. We can't understand localisation without talking about finance for development.

#SevillaWorldForumLED

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World Forum of Local Economic Development (WFLED) @worldledforum.bsky.social · Apr 1

Political dialogue led by the Local2030 Coalition and @clgf.bsky.social

Key progress towards #FfD4 will be shared: financing localization, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and financial architecture reform.
#SevillaWorldForumLED

✨ Moderated by @emiliasaiz.bsky.social

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · Mar 8

1 in 3 women in the EU has suffered violence.

Parliament has adopted EU-wide rules to combat violence against women.

In the next two years, EU countries must criminalise:

🔸 Cyberflashing
🔸 Non-consensual sharing of intimate or manipulated material
🔸 Forced marriage
🔸 Female genital mutilation

An infographic on violence against women

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · Mar 10

Empowered women and girls everywhere is the best guarantee for developed societies that leave no one and no place behind. It starts locally! And one more year we are bringing local governments’ women voices to #CSW69 🙌

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Mar 7

⚧️ On our way to #CSW69 to share key perspectives on #Beijing30:

🟣 Localizing Feminist Policies
🟣 Gender-Responsive Public Services
🟣 Women’s Political Leadership & Participation
🟣 Care Economy & Just Transition
🟣 Combating #GBV
🟣 Intersectional Feminism
🟣 Women & Peace

#IWD2025

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Mar 7

🟣 #IWD2025

From #CSW68 to #CSW69 #Beijing30
How are women leaders worldwide shaping the Feminist Municipal Movement?

➡️ Check out the publication Rivers of inspirations, waves of transformation: Generations of local feminist leaders for #GenderEquality

🔗 women.uclg.org/sites/defaul...

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 28

📢 El lunes 3 de marzo es el último día de solicitudes para nuestro curso online moderado para acelerar la localización de #ODS, en inglés.

🔗 No olvides inscribirte aquí: learningwith.uclg.org/p/accelerati...

📊 Para descubrir los variados materiales y debates que promueven los #ODS a nivel local.

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Anthony Berthelot @anthony-berthelot.bsky.social · Feb 16

🇨🇲 🇫🇷 Coopération Nantes métropole- Ville de Dschang
Partenariat entre nos deux collectivités, avec le soutien de l'Agence Française de Développement, sur la gestion des déchets : collecte - tri - valorisation.

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 20

💜Our SG, @emiliasaiz.bsky.social, kicks off Day 4 of our Retreat #WorldSocialJusticeDay:

"Our movement believes justice is🔑to a sustainable future. We want renewed partnerships & multilateralism that foster high-level dialogue for all—this is the #LocalSocialCovenant"

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · Feb 19

What a morning … docents of young voices in direct dialogue with our political leaders and the organised constituency of older persons! United for present and future 🙌

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 19

🟡Our Secretary General @emiliasaiz.bsky.social kicks off Day 3️⃣ of our #UCLGMeets Retreat!

✏️“Intergenerational Dialogue”

💬Bringing together our Presidency, local leaders, young elected officials and youth representatives for a debate on intergenerational solidarity on local governance

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 18

🟡 Session sur le partenariat YCAF

🌱 @psmariani.bsky.social facilite le dialogue entre les jeunes leaders et les représentants de #Kitchener
& Athènes

🚲Une occasion unique d’explorer leurs visions et initiatives pour un avenir plus inclusif et durable !

#Listen2Cities

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 18

🟡 UCLG SG @emiliasaiz.bsky.social kicks off the 2025 #UCLGMeets Retreat

"To bypass the curve, we need to develop a joint agenda. And this agenda needs to be one of local #democracy and participation, involving the #youth to develop #multilateralism."🦋

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Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔴🔵"We are in a time of unprecedented challenges and need solutions where local and regional governments #LRGs step up. We can do better in mobilizing public opinion, giving visibility to our achievements, to stories of transformation and impact."

Uribe Pando, SG Regions4

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · Feb 18

Today we will discuss youth action for sustainability; localization and climate justice! 🙌 local and territorial partnerships for global impact!

Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · Feb 17

🎥 We're live!

🔴🔵Follow the Annual Meeting of the @GlobalTaskforce
on YouTube

🔗 youtube.com/live/phXsenC...

#Listen2Cities

Global Taskforce Day

YouTube video by United Cities and Local Governments

youtube.com

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Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · Feb 17

🎥 We're live!

🔴🔵Follow the Annual Meeting of the @GlobalTaskforce
on YouTube

🔗 youtube.com/live/phXsenC...

#Listen2Cities

Global Taskforce Day

YouTube video by United Cities and Local Governments

youtube.com

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Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔴🔵 Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy,
@iclei.org

💬We should think beyond the status quo & speak loudly to ensure the new multilateralism is more inclusive & goes where we want it to. We should continue to reinforce the relation of member states & our constituency.

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Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔴🔵 @uclg.bsky.social SG @emiliasaiz.bsky.social opens the Global Taskforce Day, remembering us that in these difficult times, it is time to regroup, assess what works and does not around 3 axes:

1️⃣Regain trust
2️⃣Resilience
3️⃣Vision

Identify how to contribute to the peace agenda.

#Listen2Cities

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 10

🔊Don’t miss the @uclg.bsky.social online course to accelerate the #SDGsLocalization

Subscribe here👇
learningwith.uclg.org/p/accelerati...

🟢 With selected cases & discussion with other members, partners & games & quizzes!

📅 Enroll before March 3rd

#LearningWithUCLG

@globaltaskforce.bsky.social

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · Feb 12

There is no better way to protect women rights than working at local level and not better alliance than youth and local and regional government! Privileged to have articulated the exchange between our committee and youth leaders! #listen2cities #WYDE #equality #Beijing+30

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 11

🟣Localizing the #Beijing30 Agenda: Uniting the UCLG Standing Committee on #GenderEquality and youth leaders ahead of #CSW69

🙌LRGs, partnerships and multilevel governance that include young generations: key to drive transformative change and concrete policy-making.

#Listen2Cities #WYDE

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 3

🟣 Local leaders drive gender equality by challenging biases, ensuring women’s participation, and creating safe spaces.

🙌 Feminist municipalism fights invisibility and violence, but strategies are needed to prevent gender advocacy from being dismissed as a "women’s issue."

#WYDE #Listen2Cities

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · Feb 8

We need more multilateralism, intergenerational dialogue & bigger push for public policies that can bring us closer to achieving the great targets of the #SDGs. Working on a renewed social contract that pulls us together with trust and strong institutions! We are convinced we can! @uclg.bsky.social

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Feb 6

#UCLGMeets 11 days to go!

✨ Under the motto "Local Government & YOUTH shaping the FUTURE," our Retreat will spotlight youth voices in shaping local action. Their vision is essential to building inclusive, resilient communities!

🔗 The program: t.ly/f-8NU

#Listen2Cities

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