Programme 2010

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Wednesday, 17 November 2010

14:00 - 16:00 h   Meeting of the Steering Committee

17:00 - 19:00 h   Closed Session of the Member Cities

Thursday, 18 November 2010

09:30 – 12:30 h   Opening Session of the General Conference

                       Gunnar Hedberg
                       
Mayor of Uppsala
                       Erik Ullenhag
                       
Minister for Integration, Ministry of Employment (Stockholm) 
                       Maria del Pilar Álvarez-Laso
                       Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Social and Human Sciences
                       (Paris) 
                       Irena Guidikova
                       Head of Division on Cultural Policy, Dialogue and Diversity, Council of Europe
                       (Strasbourg)
                       Dr. Hans Hesselmann
                       President of ECCAR (Nuremberg)

                       Presentation of a Film on Populist Racism in Europe
                       Moderator:
                       Helena Rojas-Lundgren
                       Vice-President of ECCAR (Botkyrka)

 10:30 – 12:30 h  Round Table
                       Challenging the Rise of Populist Racism in European Cities

                       Introductory Statement:
                       John Kellock
                       Head of the External Relations and Networking Department,
                       European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna)

                       Panel Debate and Plenary Discussion with                   
                       Dr. Ágnes Daróczi, Vice-President of the Phralipe Independent Roma
                       Organisation; Scientific Associate of the Hungarian Institute for Culture
                       (Hungary)   
                       Liz Fekete,
Director of the Institute of Race Relations (London)
                       Prof. Dr. Charles Husband, Professor of Social Analysis, University of Bradford;
                       Fellow, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Bradford)
                       John Kellock, Head of the External Relations and Networking Department,
                       European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna)
                       Paul Lappalainen, Head of Equality Promotion, Office of the Swedish Equality
                       Ombudsman (Stockholm)
                       Dr. Rifa'at Lenzin, Islamic Scholar, Federal Swiss Commission Against Racism
                       (Zurich) 

                       Moderator:
                       Soledad Piñero Misa

                       Founder of the Consultancy and Training Firm Diferencia (Stockholm)

12:30 – 14:00 h  Lunch

14:00 – 15:15 h   Assessing Racism and Discrimination and Monitoring
                       Municipal Policies: ECCAR’s Human-Rights-Centred Model of Indicators

                       Presentation:
                       Dr. Klaus Starl, European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights
                       and Democracy (Graz)

                       Moderator:
                       Marcello Scarone Azzi
                       
Chief of Fight against Discrimination and Racism Section a.i., Division of
                       Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy, UNESCO (Paris)
                      
                       Discussion

15:30 – 18:00 h  First Session of Parallel Working Groups

WG 1:              Implementing the Ten-Point-Plan of Action Against Racism:
                      Building Local Partnerships

                      Coordination: Botkyrka, Gent, Karlsruhe

WG 2:              Implementing the Ten-Point-Plan of Action Against Racism:
                      How to Develop a Local Action Plan

                      Coordination: Bologna, Graz

WG 3:              Combating Discrimination in Health Care Treatment for
                      Persons Without a Health Insurance

                      Coordination: Nuremberg, Liège

WG 4:             Constituent Assembly of the Youth Council for ECCAR
                     Coordination: Botkyrka, Cair, Nuremberg, UNESCO (Paris)

WG 5:             Cooperation for Change – Moving Towards a
                     Non-Discriminatory Society

                     Forum for Non-Governmental Organisations
                     Coordination: Uppsala, Botkyrka, Office of the Swedish Equality
                     Ombudsman (Stockholm)

Friday, 19. November 2010

09:00 – 12:00 h  Second Session of Parallel Working Groups

12:00 – 13:30 h  Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 h  Closing Session of the General Conference

13:30 – 14:30 h  Presentation of the Recommendations of the Working Groups
                     Discussion

14:30 – 15:00 h  Film Spots Against Racism and Discrimination

15:00 – 15:15 h  Presentation of a Conference Declaration
                      Discussion and decision

15:15 – 15:30 h  Final words
                      Mayor of Uppsala

                      Dr. Hans Hesselmann

                      President of ECCAR (Nuremberg)

                      Moderator:
                      Jean-Paul Makengo

                      Vice-President of ECCAR (Toulouse)

15:30 h            End of conference

Saturday, 20 November 2010

10:00 – 12:00 h   Steering Committee Meeting



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ECCAR's Ten-Point Plan of Action committed cities to monitor racism in the city, to establish a system of data collection and to develop appropriate indicators.

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