Human Rights and Local Governments

Encourage the engagement of local governments towards Human Rights and draft a “Worldwide Charter-Agenda of Human Rights in the City”

• Draw up a text with a worldwide, multicultural perspective that includes a list of 8 - 10 fundamental human rights that all cities should recognise, protect and implement.
• Draw up an “agenda” or municipal action programme for each human right recognised in the Charter-Agenda, defining the municipal undertakings necessary to implement the Charter of Human Rights. Define a working calendar for the “agenda” or municipal action programme and design indicators that will enable evaluation of the degree of success achieved in the implementation of the Charter-Agenda.
• Involve a large number and variety of actors in the process of consideration and preparation of the Charter-Agenda (local authorities, social movements, international organisations, civil society and experts the world over) via an online web exchange platform that legitimises the result of the project.
• Obtain a real and effective political commitment from the local authorities involved. Disseminate the Charter-Agenda on a global scale and implement it on a local scale by means of the adoption of city by-laws and the design of inclusive local policies.
• Participate in the organisation of the 7th European Conference on Human Rights in the City (Tuzla, 7 – 9 December 2010) and stimulate the dissemination and implementation of the “European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City”.