York is declaring its commitment to human rights. At an event today the Lord Mayor will declare York the UK’s first Human Rights City. It will join more than 30 other cities across the globe that have made a special commitment to grounding decision making in human rights principles so that everyone is treated with dignity and fairness. The City of York Council, North Yorkshire Police and York CVS are all members of the York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN) and recognise the positive effect that human rights have on the difficult decisions that they make every day in their work. At BIHR we are very proud of the work that we have done with YHRCN, including sessions last year with the City of York Council and the voluntary sector to build capacity on human rights and putting them into practice. Our new advocacy project, supporting those working on health and wellbeing, will also be focused in York, with sessions and resources developed in coming months. We hope this will make an import…

This post was originally published on British Institute of Human Rights News .