How to manage Human Rights and the City?

The ETC summer academy is back: From 23 to 27 September 2014 the International Summer Academy on Human Rights and the City: How to manage human rights and the city? will take place in Graz/Austria.

The summer academy aims at presenting and discussing instruments and mechanisms to facilitate the implementation of human rights at the local level. Against the background of local and regional authorities' rights and obligations it focuses on cities' and regions' self-governance including their obligation to respect, protect, fulfil and also promote human rights at the local level.

Furthermore the academy aims to:

• Foster the implementation of human rights and equality in the city
• Present and discuss a multi-perspective approach to effective equality policies at the local level
• Implement anti-discrimination policies
• Use the ECCaR toolkit on equality policies as an instrument to plan, implement and evaluate anti-discrimination policies and their potential in respect to equality, inclusion, equal treatment and equal opportunities
• Promote a deeper and holistic understanding of the topic through a multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective approach
• Exchange ideas, foster mutual learning and networking among participants with different backgrounds

The summer academy is open to practitioners – administration professionals working at municipal or regional levels, politicians and NGO collaborators from all Council of Europe member states. Working language is English.

The summer academy is hosted by the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC Graz), with contributions of UNESCO, the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, as well as the City of Graz in the frame of the ECCAR network.

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