This round table is organized by the Habitat International Coalition and its Women and Habitat Africa Working Group (WHAWG) to celebrate the UN Habitat’s Urban October. The round table will convene four experts; practitioners, advocates and scholars, to discuss about ways to address urban and gender inequalities, from the perspectives of the right to housing and to the city, as well as economic and digital inclusion.

The panel will feature USF International Fellow, Dr Priscila Izar, who will discuss inclusive cities and gender equality based on their USF-supported research.

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"The USF has played a crucial role in creating space for urban research that not only moves beyond academic spheres but also values embodied, decolonial, and insurgent ways of knowing. As a queer geographer working in and through the messy, affective terrains of urban India, this Fellowship didn’t just fund my research — it affirmed it. It gave me the courage and capacity to experiment with form, to centre marginal voices, and to hold space for joy, pain, memory, and resistance in my work. I remain in awe of the nurturing, and genuinely transformative support USF continues to offer its Fellows — during, and far beyond, the fellowship period."

Dr Dhiren Borisa, International Fellowship

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