Human Rights Cities Network: Info-session - How can cities monitor Human Rights?, 18 April 2023

Cities are the ideal starting point, to strengthen a human rights-based approach in society. Citizens should be empowered to know and assert their rights. This allows them to hold individuals and institutions to account, thus protecting and fulfilling human rights for all. Through the Human Rights Cities Network, European municipalities and human rights cities practitioners can interconnect and learn from each other, share research and promote human rights for citizens.

In this frame the Human Rights Cities Network team will present the development of the Standardised Monitoring System (SMS) pilot project with Andrea Pozza, a senior expert specialised in monitoring public services. The SMS wants to co-create, together with cities, a unique set of indicators and monitoring tools integrating people and their rights at the centre of public policies and practices.

The aim of this pilot initiative is to support the development of the human rights cities movement in Europe. With this system, cities will be able to regularly assess their achievements and analyse the influence of their work in making human rights a reality for their people. The goal of the process is to contribute to transforming participating cities into human rights cities or to strengthen the good practices of the ones that already are.

The Standardised Monitoring System is conceived to respond to the specific needs of both the cities and the people.

Learn more registering for the online information session, on 18 April 2023, at 11:00 am.