Approaches on the right to the city of women from human security approach

Abstract

The right to the city is a collective right in construction proposed in 2005 in the World Charter for the Right to the City. It is the result of various social, economic, cultural and collective vindicating processes of rights, led by social movements worldwide, who assembled in the various Social Forum meetings have approached its definition, which still in conception includes: the equitable usufruct of cities, goods, services, and opportunities they offer to all residents within the principles of sustainability, support, democracy, equity and social justice. 

This article highlights the contributions that to the definition of this new law makes the women’s movement, in all its diversity and heterogeneity, which previously to the consecration of the World Charter for the Right to the City provided significant contributions to the definition of its content, revealing how and to what degree gender differences lead to different ways of living the city for both men and women and, up to distinguishing the reasons why poverty and inequality affects them differently.

The article, finally, approaches the particular content of the right to the city for women, and for this it turns up to the category of gender and to the concept of human security, from which questionings to the overall and universalistic look of human rights arise, aiming to make out of this reflection a path for the creation of a legal and political strategy to prevent manifestations of injustice and that gains a distributive justice in the urban contexts, in which the social goods are equitably distributed in society between men and women, diminishing the limitations that the latter have to access the resources, goods and services the city has to offer