Human Rights

Our existence matter: Experiences and belonging of urban space from street hawkers perspective
27 september, 2021
The study examines the experiences of street hawkers and contributes to the current but lessrepresented debate on hawkers’ ways of appropriating the urban space through space modificationand codification that serve greatly their capitalist purposes and how those daily activities influencetheir sense of belonging to the urban public space. The hawkers in the study area; LaNkwantanang-Madina…
Our existence matter: Experiences and belonging of urban space from street hawkers perspective
27 september, 2021
The study examines the experiences of street hawkers and contributes to the current but less represented debate on hawkers’ ways of appropriating the urban space through space modification and codification that serve greatly their capitalist purposes and how those daily activities influence their sense of belonging to the urban public space. The hawkers in the…
Breaking the walls: the first Pride March in Bosnia and Herzegovina
27 september, 2021
Pride Marches are usually considered as the most important manifestations of LGBTI activismand politics, either as festive and commercial celebrations or protests against violations ofhuman rights of the LGBTI population. The first BiH Pride March from September 2019successfully took the form of the latter, under heavy security measures and without anyincidents in Sarajevo. Bosnia is…
Breaking the walls: the first Pride March in Bosnia and Herzegovina
27 september, 2021
Pride Marches are usually considered as the most important manifestations of LGBTI activismand politics, either as festive and commercial celebrations or protests against violations ofhuman rights of the LGBTI population. The first BiH Pride March from September 2019successfully took the form of the latter, under heavy security measures and without anyincidents in Sarajevo. Bosnia is…
Mainstreaming Migrant Rights for Gender Equality: Lessons from Lisbon and Barcelona
9 september, 2021
Mainstreaming, a governance strategy based on coordination between government levels and the involvement of various policy sectors and actors (including institutional, private and civil society), is often adopted by local governments in different policy realms, including in managing migration and integration at the local level. Overall, mainstreaming migrant integration has the potential to enhance migrants´…
Mainstreaming Migrant Rights for Gender Equality: Lessons from Lisbon and Barcelona
9 september, 2021
Mainstreaming, a governance strategy based on coordination between government levels and the involvement of various policy sectors and actors (including institutional, private and civil society), is often adopted by local governments in different policy realms, including in managing migration and integration at the local level. Overall, mainstreaming migrant integration has the potential to enhance migrants´…
Ovanåker and Overstrand, South Africa
14 juni, 2021
This application is part of the network ”Municipal partnership for human rights”, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in southern Africa that have committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights-based strategy and are committed to work more systematically with human rights at the local level.Ovanåker Municipality…
Kungsör and Rufunsa, Zambia
14 juni, 2021
The partnership will address the issue of inequality in decision-making in public activities and more specifically at the municipal level. The UN Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that all people should be given the opportunity to influence their country’s government. Our existing structures and systems for inviting engagement leads to older men still holding most…
Falun and Mogale, South Africa
14 juni, 2021
This project is part of the “Municipal Partnership for Human Rights” network, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in Southern Africa that are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights based approach and that are keen to work more systematically with human rights at a local…
Lund and Francistown, Botswana
14 juni, 2021
The local government office has the assignment to investigate possibilities to start a municipal partnership to promote local democracy and international co-operation with focus on the Agenda 2030. During the time of finding a municipal partner, ICLD returned with an inquiry regarding Lund´s interest in participating in a new concept, a platform containing extended support…