The Steering Committee has the following tasks:
- Deciding on the admission of cities as members of the Coalition
- suggesting the exclusion of member cities to the General Conference
- representing and promoting the Coalition and its goals at a European, international and regional level
- deciding on and preparing General Conferences and further conferences of the Coalition
- implementing decisions taken by the General Conferences
- preparing and facilitating medium and long term action programmes for the Coalition and introducing them to the General Conference for decision-making
- preparing and discussing the budgets and annual accounts and presenting them to the General Conference for decision
- forwarding the reports presented by members to the Scientific Secretariat for annual evaluation, and commenting upon these evaluations on an annual basis.
On 18 November 2009 the following cities were elected to the Steering Committee for a period of two years:
| Aubervilliers (France) | Liège (Belgium) |
| Barcelona (Spain) | Nantes (France) |
| Bologna (Italy) | Malmö (Sweden) |
| Botkyrka (Sweden) | Nuremberg (Germany) |
| Çair (Macedonia) | Potsdam (Germany) |
| Ghent (Belgium) | Toulouse (France) |
| Graz (Austria) | Villeurbanne (France) |
| Karlsruhe (Germany) | and |
| UNESCO / Paris |
Scientific Advisors:
| Prof. Dr. Charles Husband | University of Bradford /United Kingdom + University of Helsinki / Finland |
| Paul Lappalainen | Office of the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discriminsation / Stockholm, Sweden |
| Dr. Klaus Starl | European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy / Graz, Austria |
Observers:
City of Lausanne (Switzerland)
City of Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation)
City of Uppsala (Sweden)
UNESCO Catalogne (Barcelona / Spain)
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights / Anti-Discrimination Uni (Geneva, Switzerland)
Letters to the Steering Committee should be written in English and sent to the Administrative Secretariat at the City of Nuremberg / Human Rights Office.
