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Presentación de WUF7 como se deben aplicar los derechos humanos básicos, aplicados al trabajo y transporte de la población de las mujeres y la vulnerable. This presentation speaks briefly about how to apply human rights on transport towomen and the vulerable population, such as elder people and children. Lugar: Medellín (Wuf7) Fecha: Abril de 2014TRANSCRIPT
On the road to
a human rights based approach
Petra Heusser
Urban Basic Services Branch
UN-Habitat
Monday, 7 April 2014, Medellin, Colombia
Overview
What is the human rights based approach?
Human rights and mobility
Key Actions – what we can do
What is the
human rights based approach?
• conceptual framework for the process of human
development
• normatively based on international human
rights standards
• operationally directed to promoting and
protecting human rights
• Universal
• Inalienable
• Indivisible
• Interrelated and interdependent:
The realization of one right often
depends on the realization of other
rights.
Fundamental Human Rights Principles
• Equality and Non-Discrimination
• Participation and Inclusion
• Accountability and Rule of Law
Human Rights Principles
Human rights can be realized only by
attention to both outcome and process.
Outcome and Process in Development
In a human rights approach, most
individuals have both rights and duties.
Most individuals, therefore, need capacity
to both claim their rights and fulfill their
duties.
Which capacity gaps exist?
Capacity Development
Human Rights and Mobility
Mobility is not a human right as such!
But: key to the realization of specific
human rights.
Right to life: life is at risk - safety, security, air
quality
Right to work: mobility is essential to access
employment
Right to education: mobility is essential to
access education
Right to adequate standard of living for health
and well-being: direct implication on health,
and access to basic goods and services
Right of persons with disabilities: Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Right to gender equality: mobility exposes
women to violation of their rights, inequality in
access
Availability
Accessibility
Affordability
Quality (safety)
Key actions on the road to a human rights based approach
• Global advocacy for recognition of the importance
of mobility to the realization of human rights.
• Technical assistance to support state capacity to
establish institutional frameworks for equitable
public transport.
• Support cities to formally include vulnerable
individuals and groups in decision-making.
• Emphasize State obligations to ensure that
human right principles are key components of all
their mobility related actions.
• Build capacity of local authorities:
– develop and maintain safe, accessible and
affordable public transport infrastructure through
transparent and accountable management.
– enforce transport safety and security measures
for all - women, children and persons with
disabilities.
– adopt legislative and policy measures on
mobility that create legal rights and entitlements
to enable vulnerable persons to access
essential goods, services and opportunities.
• Empower civil society organizations:
– stimulate demand for equitable services
through increased awareness of the link
between mobility and human rights.
– mobilize local resources to overcome mobility
challenges, while advocating for formal
measures to eliminate social exclusion due to
immobility.
– conduct audits of public and private mobility
related works.
Thank you!