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Below you will find an interesting publication available online hereUrban Policies and the Right to the City in India. Rights, responsibilities and citizenshipMarie-Hélène Zérah, Véronique Dupont, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (Scientific editors)Parution : novembre 2011, UNESCO &#38; Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 180 p.This publication is a compendium of 16 research policy-papers written by 14 eminent scholars covering several angles of the right to the city approach in India, including :• Right to the City and Urban Citizenship• The Constitutional and International Framework• A Philosophical Reading of the RTTC• Urban Governance : How Democratic ?• Women’s Right to the City : from Safety to Citizenship ?• Caste and Class in Indian Cities : Habitation, Inequality and Segregation• Muslim Neighbourhoods and Segregation in the City• Migrants’ (Denied) Rights to the City• Urban Spatial Exclusion : A Historical Perspective• Claiming Land : Rights, Contestations and the Urban Poor in Globalized Times• The Challenges of Slums and Forced Evictions• Urban Livelihoods : the City versus the Informal Economy• Water and Sanitation : Barriers to Universalization• Urban Transport and the Right to the City : Accessibility and Mobility• The Retreat of the State in Healthcare Policy and the Right to the City• A Human Rights’ Perspective for the Right to the CityThe publication is intended as an advocacy tool to promote a rights-based approach to urbanization in India. A rights-based approach in the context of Indian cities has not yet been extensively documented and researched.The publication aims to close this gap by providing policy makers with a set of experiences for better social inclusion in Indian cities, and initiatives in law and urban planning that strengthen rights and responsibilities, interfaith tolerance, and ensures the inclusion of the most vulnerable (urban poor, women, migrants) in urban management. It will serve as a solid reference point for policy makers at a local level, as well as a basis for the exchange of knowledge between researchers, city professionals and local authorities on building inclusive cities.