From universal principles to local action
The 3rd World Forum on Human Rights
In an era where disparities, intolerance and violence fail to stop increasing, human rights need promoting and protecting more than ever. This protection is none other than a collective enterprise, that of the international community as a whole.
The 3rd edition (30 June - 3rd July) gathered more than 2500 stakeholders and delegates of more than 100 different nationalities.
Two editions of the World Forum on Human Rights have already been held, one in 2004 and the other in 2006. The latest edition gathered together 1,200 participants and speakers, representing more than 70 different nationalities, at the Nantes Metropolis International Convention Centre.
Adopting the title, “From Major Principles to Local Action”, issues in the headlines concerning human rights were discussed by State and parliamentary officials, by representatives from towns and local governments worldwide, by members from international organizations, from the academic world and from the civil society.
Hence, the World Forum on Human Rights is deemed to become a much-awaited event by all those working in this field, those who could have begun by sharing their knowledge and experience on the Website.
It is possible to keep on exchanging ideas after each Forum and to prepare the 4th World Forum on Human Rights in 2010, thanks to the Web exchange platform, open to all participants interested, which is proposed on this Website, similar to a “virtual forum”. It aims at bringing together, on an equal footing, actors of all kinds, working together to face the challenges set down with regard to human rights, whether existing or emerging. This is essentially to strengthen the mandatory solidarity among all those working within this field. The Nantes Forum, now run by the International permanent Secretariat, reaffirms such solidarity.
