If Yes, join the HDHRC !!!

As in previous World Social Forum (WSF) editions, the Human Dignity and Human Rights Caucus (HDHRC) would like to contribute to the coordination and visibility of human rights activities within the Forum, to be held in Belem do Para (Brazilian amazonian region) in January 2009. 

For next WSF edition, the HDHRC is focusing on facilitating alliance building, new links and a hosting human rights space as well as on advancing core Human Rights themes. Consequently, the HDHRC will not organise any specific activity on its own. In practical terms, your organisation can use the HDHRC as a platform for :

• Sharing information & ideas about Human Rights related activities. Some organisations may be planning activities with similar objectives than yours. The WSF is an excellent occasion for networking and cooperation. Publish your activity in our list (we are creating it), which will be diffused as broadly as possible before and during the WSF.

• Contacting other organisations to organise joint activities. Read carefully our list and feel free to contact the persons in charge of any specific activity if you are interested / or willing to contribute.

• Participating in the Human Rights space. As in previous WSF, the HDHRC is trying to create a human rights space to host self-organised activities.

In particular, in order to ensure some continuity with past WSF editions, it would be useful to foster coordination and networking in particular on the following issues:

Human rights and struggles for social and economic justice
Human rights and struggles for gender equity
Human rights and struggles over habitat, land and environment
Human rights, mobility and citizenship gap
Human rights and conflict, militarization and culture of impunity
Human rights and faith and cultural diversity

If your organisation/movement would like to be in charge of one of these topics, to be associated to it or even suggest another human rights related topic within the framework of the caucus, please contact us as soon as possible. Some organisations have already expressed their will to take the responsibility to gather as many actors as possible around these issues and you can already join them (please contact us !). Even if the process is open, to take the responsibility for an issue usually means to:

-Organise, in collaboration with a diverse set of actors at the WSF, a panel discussion, plenary, round-table, workshop or other type of cultural event on issues linking these human rights themes with the priority themes of the caucus.

-Support in linking people interested in the theme, to exchange, share and build contacts

These are only a few ideas about what the caucus could do and we welcome any kind of proposal / suggestion which would help us to reach our aims. Feel free to contact us and share your ideas !! (contact person: Rosa Sanchez, coordinationhdhrc@yahoo.com).

Looking forward to hearing from you !

More information on the Human Rights caucus on : http://hdhrc.over-blog.com/