This general principle was adopted by the City Council as an answer to our city’s history, in particular during the time of National Socialism and as a future task for municipal politics.
The Human Rights Office now has the task of making this principle a dynamic reality. It has to develop concepts for municipal human rights activities, and to co-ordinate and implement them. This is about promoting human rights at an international and European level, but also protecting and strengthening those universal rights locally.
We do this in co-operation with a wide variety of partners and through many different networks.
And we would like to invite you to join us in fighting for the respect and promotion of human rights.
Immediately after Iran´s parliamentary election the prizewinner of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, Abdolfattah Soltani, was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and banned for 20 years from exercising his profession. The revolutionary court also ruled that Soltani will be transferred to a remote prison in the city of Borazjan, about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Tehran.
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