The Forum 2008
An original idea
The World Forum on Human Rights is a place for encounters and for free dialogue for all players in the field of Human Rights, gathered together on an equal footing. Its main aim is to bring together all types of players working towards the same goal to implement, protect and defend human rights. The Forum aims at being a useful place for exchanging ideas, experience and knowledge, thereby strengthening co-operation among the various players involved in fundamental rights, not only locally, but also regionally, nationally and worldwide.
In order to do so, the Forum initiates an original idea by attempting to link theoretical contributions with practical experience, which all too often tend to be excluded and ignored. Thus, by bringing action and thought closer together, more adequate and more efficient answers can be proposed in response to the challenges set down with regard to the protection and defence of human rights.
Sharing knowledge, creating networks
All too often, the various players involved in human rights tend to work separately. The Nantes Forum, therefore, aims to encourage the exchange of views and the sharing of knowledge. The Forum enables participants to establish contacts, to instigate discussions, to create networks and to reach agreements on the possible joint actions and on their subsequent follow-up. Open to free debate and the confrontation of opinions, its aim does not consist of adopting resolutions or agreeing to declarations. It is neither a place for enacting protection or monitoring standards with regard to the respect of human rights, this being the responsibility of the relevant authorities and institutions entrusted with such task.
The Forum project, modest in its form but ambitious in its aims, is designed to provide a new thought-provoking venue for in-depth discussions and the promotion of good practices to the progression of help human rights.
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