The “World Charter for the Right to the City”, presented in Quito in 2004 at the Social Forum for the Americas and later that year at the World Urban Forum (Barcelona, September 2004) resulted from a series of struggles, by various social movements and organizations, to promote a rights-based approach to the challenges of urbanization. This charter received the support of several local governments which took up the task of developing city charters, and of international organizations, including UN-HABITAT and UNESCO which then launched a series of actions on the question of urban citizenship and the right to the city. In 2005, UNESCO and UN-HABITAT started a project entitled “Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship” (Brown and Kristianson, 2009) and this was followed by the recent UN-HABITAT report on the state of the world’s cities which articulates the importance of taking forward the right to the city as a vehicle for social inclusion (UNHABITAT, 2010).