Earth Citizenship and Cities with Soul for “Our One Home – Earth”

This session explores the fundamental human need for home, belonging, and connection as the foundations of flourishing urban life and Earth citizenship.

It aligns with the 2025 Human Rights Day theme — “Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials” — reaffirming that dignity, safety, and trust are not abstract ideals but daily human necessities.

In a time of uncertainty and alienation, the session invites us to see human habitats as living sanctuaries where every person feels recognised, respected, and rooted. It asks how the principles of human rights can be embodied in everyday urban experience — through housing that offers safety, public spaces that invite connection, and policies that restore inclusion and dignity.

Home is understood as both physical and spiritual sanctuary — a place of protection, sacredness, and memory. Reframing citizenship as a living relationship with land, community, and planet, we envision cities and places that nurture the soul of humanity…