From universal principles to local action
The international permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments, association by French Law (Law 1901) created in 2007, is a permanent overseeing and organisational body based in nantes (France) with two complementary missions :
- developing and helping to strengthen the international networks of actors in Human Rights, namely field actors (NGOs and local governments)
- organising, every two years in Nantes, the gathering of those actors : the World Forum on Human Rights
This Forum was created, from the start (in 2004) by the UNESCO (SHS) to support and develop the networks of actors involved in the protection, the respect and the implementation of Human Rights by strenghtening the solidarity between these different actors (political leaders, ONG activists, academics and international experts, representatives of international organisations...).
It is a place for encounters and for free dialogue for all actors in the field of Human Rights, gathered together on an equal footing, exchanging knowledge and good practices.
The 3rd edition was held from the 30th of June till the 3rd of July and gathered more than 2500 stakeholders and delegates of more than 100 different nationalities and 1300 pupils of Nantes and its region.
The permanent Secretariat of Nantes, which is mainly interested in local action, was entrusted the task of leading the working group Human Rights and local governments within the Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy Commission of UCLG. This working group aims to elaborate a Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the city.
The Secretariat was created with the back up by the Nantes Metropole (Urban Community), the Western Loire Region, the Loire-Atlantique County Council and the City of Nantes an dis working in close collabiration with its different partners.
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