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Our actions
The actions planned:
- To create and develop, in partnership with the World Federation of Local Communities, UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments), an active network to reunite as many actors as possible implicated in defending, protecting and enforcing human rights, not only locally, but also nationally and internationally.
- To set up an efficient international communication tool: a trilingual Web exchange platform, open to contribution from all actors involved in the field of human rights and operating by means of a personal access code, with the aim of promoting and developing this tool worldwide.
- To organise the World Forum on Human Rights every two years (next edition: from 30th June to 3rd July 2008 at the Nantes Metropolis International Convention Centre).
- To spread knowledge and information (basic and practical) and to organise exchanges among members of the Nantes Forum network by becoming primarily interested in local action “inspired” by Human Rights, notably through electronic media.
- To develop, in collaboration with UCLG an international observatory for enforcing human rights at local level, notably within cities and/or under the responsibility of the local authorities.
- To promote actions aiming to respect, protect and enforce rights, as led by the local authorities (or within their territory), whether by themselves or as a network.
- To participate, using all appropriate means and with all the relevant partners, in thought processes and actions dedicated to human rights, such as being a reference player at international level on the theme of Human Rights and Local Governments.
