The Charter-agenda
The Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City
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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
The Global Charter Agenda for Human Rights in the City is a declaration (a charter) with an action plan (an agenda). When the local governments from all over the world will adopt the charter they will thus commit themselves to develop « inclusive » public politics (in contrast with « exclusive ») in order to protect, respect and implement human rights on their territories, on a local level.
The actual text of the charter-agenda is currently in the making, in process (see the text above). At the moment it is at a stage of a project development which was thought and writen by an expert committee coming from all continents : more
Therefore, the charter project is to be debated during all 2009. The definitive version should be adopted during the next UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) World Congress in Autumn 2010 in Mexico.
Thus this project will help drawing up a text with a worldwide scope and a multicultural perspective, whereby cities from all over the world shall commit themselves to develop inclusive public policies for the safeguarding of Human Rights applicable on a local level. In this sense, the Charter-Agenda will contain those fundamental Human Rights that every city should recognise, protect and ensure, along with a list of municipal commitments that will determine the type of local action that can be implemented in order to materialize every specific Human Right. This local agenda will be linked to a series of indicators in order to facilitate the assessment of the level of success achieved.
Local governments representatives interested in the elaboration and the implementation of this charter are welcome to participate to the driving group’s works : more
