The Global Taskforce will gather at the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur

A delegation of local and regional governments will attend the 5th High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) from 10-19 July, 2017, where they will present a report on the role of local and regional governments in implementing and monitoring the SDGs.

In the framework of the 61st UN Commission on the Status of Women, networks of the global taskforce have mobilized delegations of women mayors and councilors in New York to highlight the role of locally elected women in the achievement o

UCLG, Metropolis, REFELA and C40 have mobilized locally elected women from every continent to visit New York during the 61st UN Commission on the Status of Women

"We, the local and regional leaders gathered in United Cities and Local Governments and the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, have been here this week to make everybody aware that the Sustainable Development Goa

Much political attention is focussed on the growing migration and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and the Middle East , the Indian Ocean, the US-Mexican border and elsewhere.