Local Government and Human Rights

Encourages the interaction and exchange of knowledge between local government and local stakeholders, including, inter alia, local civil society, in the formulation and implementation of local government programmes, with the aim of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the promotion of a human rights culture within public services;

Encourages local governments to ensure the participation of local stakeholders in local government activities and in public affairs in efforts to promote and protect human rights at the local level;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report, in consultation with all States and relevant intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the Advisory Committee, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and local governments, on effective methods to foster cooperation between local government and local stakeholders for the effective promotion and protection of human rights at their level through local government programmes, including raising awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to indicate the major challenges and best practices in this regard, and to submit the report to the Council prior to its forty-second session;