Project Background
This project began with the first Forum of Local Authorities for Social Inclusion (FLA) in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001 and held annually ever since in conjunction with the World Social Forum. One of this project's objectives is to work with civil society to build and develop public-sector management alternatives to the current process of economic globalisation.
At the 5th FLA forum, in Porto Alegre in 2005, it was decided that one of the project's guidelines would be Human Rights in the City. A year later, at the 6th FLA in Caracas, the commitment to social inclusion was reaffirmed as a means to achieve more social justice and increase participative democracy. A work group on human rights, headed by the Diputació of Barcelona at that time, was set up with the primary objective of preparing the Global Charter-Agenda on Human Rights in the City.
