Local Action and Human Rights: Building the Future of the Human Rights Cities’ Movement
Cultural rights | Human rights | Multilateralism
UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (UCLG CSIPDHR)
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Human rights are at the center of the UN 2030 Agenda, which seeks “to realize the human rights of all”. This session will build on the idea of “Human Right City”, exchanging on recent evolutions, challenges and thematic priorities. It will lay the ground for new avenues of cooperation and joint action led by LRGs, in order to strengthen their role in the promotion of fundamental rights within the UCLG constituency.
- Mr Park Yong-so, Director of the Democracy and Human Rights Division of Gwangju
- Ms Irací Hassler, Mayor of Santiago de Chile
- Mr Emile Raymond Gros Nakombo, Mayor of Bangui
- Mr Pascal Smet, State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region
- Mr Andreas Wolter, Deputy Mayor of Cologne
- Ms Gissela Chalá, Vice-Mayor of Quito
- Ms Lucia Beamud, City of Valencia
- Ms Sonia Zdorovtzoff, Deputy Mayor of Lyon
- Ms Susana Araceli Ángeles Quezada, Mayor of Tizayuca
- Moderator: Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- Mr Philippe Rio, Mayor of Grigny
- Ms Sonia Francine Gaspar Marmo, Secretary of Human Rights, Sao Paulo
- Mr Etornam James Flolu, Mayor of Afadzato South District
- Ms Linda Voortman, Co-Mayor of Utrecht
- Moderator: Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner and head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna.