https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-cor-making_rights_real-booklet_en.pdf
On 2 December, FRA and the Committee of the Regions are publishing a new joint booklet “Making rights real: guide for local and regional authorities”. Local and regional officials and elected representatives are key actors to support the fulfilment of fundamental rights in Member States. For instance, they facilitate access to education and healthcare, they ensure equal access to all individuals to public services, and they regularly deal with fundamental rights considerations.
How to ensure
that regional and local initiatives comply with fundamental rights obligations?
How different levels of government can work together to coordinate activities
and avoid duplication? How to understand and engage communities and
stakeholders? These are among the key questions addressed in this guide
(online version currently only available in English. Other languages to be
added soon).
This guide draws
on lessons learned and example practices collected from hundreds of officials
from eight Members States and compiled in FRA’s online toolkit Joining up
fundamental rights. It results from fruitful cooperation between FRA and the
Committee of the Regions over the years. As outlined in FRA’s Annual Report
2013, fundamental rights’ protection can be more effective if all layers of
governance are involved. Joint efforts and coordinated activities with all
levels of governments and with European and International organisations have
positive effect on the protection, promotion and implementation of fundamental
rights on the ground. This is why the Committee of the Regions and FRA actively
cooperates through various means and in particular by holding an Annual
Dialogue to discuss opportunities for action at the European and Member State
level.
The booklet will
be available in 14 languages in 2015: English, French, German, Swedish,
Bulgarian, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian,
Croatian, Czech.
When is Utrecht going to get rid of Zwarte Piet in it's schools, it's shopping centers, in it's hospitals, and other public buildings? Zwarte Piet is a recognized racist caricature that reinforces racist stereotypes. There's something so hollow about claiming to support human rights when dark skinned citizens are being confronted with these 'blackface' figures in public spaces. Zwarte Piet is not only a manifestation of discrimination, but is also a cause. And yet, the mayor of Utrecht and the head of the university of Utrecht, and the local government office of Utrecht all endorse the presence of this . Human rights in the Netherlands are a joke. People are not allowed to have a peaceful silent demonstration, and a woman was punched outside the building of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (where a large police presence was, and the incident was filmed), and yet the man was not arrested that day. The man who punched the woman repeatedly remained in the area and smirked at the lady. Discrimination in policing is not just a US or Ferguson issue. It's a big problem here too. Look at the report by Amnesty International.
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