The Charter-agenda
The project
At the last World Congress of the federation of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), in Jeju, South Korea in November 2007, the International Permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments (SPIDH), based in Nantes, France, was named to lead the Human Rights and Local Governments work group of the UCLG’s Committee on Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy (CISDP), Chaired by Ricard Gomà, Deputy-Mayor of Barcelona, Spain.. This work group was previously led by the Diputació province of Barcelona.
In this task, SPIDH, which also organizes the World Forum on Human Rights, is supported by Nantes Métropole, the Pays de la Loire Region, the Department of Loire-Atlantique and the City of Nantes, the local government authorities that sit on its board of directors.
One of this work group’s main objectives is to draft a Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City, for adoption by UCLG at its next World Congress in the fall of 2010.
This task involves preparing a declaration (the "Charter") and a programme of concrete action (the "Agenda") for the purpose of promoting the development and observance of human rights in local communities. In signing the Charter-Agenda, local authorities from around the world will affirm their commitment to implementing the actions proposed in each of its articles. This "local agenda" will include an implementation schedule and progress indicators.
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Text proposition of the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City (February 2009)
CHARTER-AGENDA_V5_EN_feb2009.pdf
