Executive Bureau 2021

The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights has brought together local authorities for twenty years to co-create local approaches to human rights. In this effort, members aimed at putting inhabitants and their needs at the heart of cities in order to build fairer, more sustainable and solidary territories: this is a vision based also on the right to the city.

As the world continues to face the pandemic and its consequences, what added value does the rights-based approach offer to local responses to the current challenges? What existing experiences of member-local governments can be showcased in the context of responses to the crisis, as a way to bridge local and global realities? How to strengthen and make more visible the international movement of local and regional governments in favor of human rights, both as a response to the construction of a “new normality” and to offer concrete alternatives to the challenges of the current and future crisis?

These are questions that many of the local experiences and practices carried out by the members of the UCLG-CSIPDHR Committee address, dealing with a wide range of issues such as the fight against inequality, discrimination, access to fundamental rights, the democratic crisis....

This meeting will be an opportunity to put the initiatives and activities of members and partners in common, and to discuss the actions and events to be taken by the Committee in the coming months - in particular, those related to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Global Charter Agenda for Human Rights in the City by UCLG and the launch of a review process of the Charter. 

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📄 Concept Note