Bringing together activists and organisations throughout Europe in a joint campaign on City Rights
for undocumented People.

Bringing together activists and organisations throughout Europe in a joint campaign on city rights
for undocumented people.

What we do:

City Rights United building blocks to create inclusive European cities:

Exchange

City Rights United is made up of people with and without papers in Europe. We come together to exchange experiences, struggles, and practices. By sharing experiences and practices we inspire each other to set up new creative and innovative practices in our cities to foster inclusivity, especially for undocumented citizens.

Toolkit for City Rights

By combining our knowledge, practices and experiences, we build a toolkit to make European cities more inclusive for undocumented. Over the course of the project, the partners and their communities will collaborate to build together a ‘Toolkit’ with practices by grassroots organisations on how to create and organise access to human rights for undocumented, how to campaign for these human rights and how to make cities more inclusive.

Solidarity

The network is build on the principle of solidarity, between localities within Europe, between the partners and between people with and without documents. While working together we support each other to deal with local struggles by amplifying each others campaigns, listen, act in solidarity and together come up with innovative and creative solutions. The work is done by and with undocumented people who want to improve their situation and learn from each other during the project.

About

Bringing together activists and organisations throughout Europe in a joint struggle to realise human rights for undocumented citizens.

City rights United brings together 6 organisations and many more interested parties and people all over Europe. They will work together to improve access to city and human rights for undocumented people in Europe. The partners are: Here to Support Amsterdam, BAK Utrecht, Mangkulturellt Center Fittja, Ex OPG Naples, Sindicato Popular De Vendedores Ambulantes de Barcelona, Asmaras World Refugee Support Hamburg, De Gemeente Amsterdam.

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How we do it:

The network City Rights United consists of partner organisations based on collaborations of citizens with and without documents. The output of this network project will take shape in the form of an accessible Toolkit, multiple smaller conferences to exchange knowledge, and a larger conference where this knowledge and tools will be presented. While working on these outputs a sustainable network of grassroots organisations supporting each other in their struggles, fights and successes, is being created. The process of creating and solidifying the network based on international and intersectional solidarity is a practice on its own that will be shared during the conferences and in the toolkit.

Webinars & Online meetings

In 2020 and the first half of 2021 we switched to organising digital meetings to keep sharing knowledge and experiences, especially during the pandemic. On top, a series of webinars was organised.. Each webinar served as an inspiration for practices to implement locally and as a platform to exchange thoughts and ideas.

Toolkit

The toolkit is going to be a collection of the innovative and creative practices and ideas of the partner organisations and their communities. The toolkit will take many forms in order to make it acessible to a wide audience. It entails a conference, drawings, workshops, lectures, webinars, written word in the form of booklet, audio recordings and perhaps even an app. The Toolkit will be launched in May 2022.

Conferences

During the conferences the partners come together and visit each other in order to meet the local communities. During the first conferences, the partners work collaboratively and co-create the toolkit for inclusive cities. In May 2022 the Toolkit will be presented in Amsterdam and Utrecht with a series of public presentations, panels, exhibitions and interactive workshops.