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Amsterdam City Rights

Project category

Community & Advocacy

Role

Accountholder (penvoerder)

Wednesdays meetings

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Location

Afrikanerplein 1, 1091 PN Amsterdam

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Amsterdam City Rights is a coalition supported by the Here to Support foundation (main applicant and account holder). It was founded by a group of undocumented and documented people of Amsterdam.
It brings together Amsterdam residents with and without documents so as to bundle their powers in the securing and improvement of human and social rights in the city. Amsterdam City Rights organizes think tank gatherings and smaller events.


Thousands of people in Amsterdam live precarious lives at the margins of society due to their lack of the required documents. Because of this, they have little or no access to the most basic human rights. Some of them are deprived of the right to adequate shelter facilities, social security, access to food, or even use of the most elemental facilities like water and toilets. This is to say nothing of the right to work legally, have a bank account, start a business, become a member of a sports club, or attend an educational institution. Social rights are most at risk in big cities. Municipal authorities have to deal with large groups of undocumented migrants, as is the case in Amsterdam. However, policies at the national or European level limit, if not block, their search for solutions to the basic problems facing this marginalized group of people. Cities have to deal with many problems that other authorities don’t have answers to. Another issue is that marginalized groups are not included in the current decision-making processes in the city. Many Amsterdammers with documents care about this group and want to work together with them in their search for an inclusive city, where the undocumented can also participate.

Amsterdam City Rights bases its starting point in the unrealised interests of the most marginalized group in our society: people without documents. By putting them first and improving their situation, we want to expand the human rights of other marginalized groups too.

Amsterdam City Rights stands for community building based on human rights.
- It is a independent think tank by, for, and with people without documents and refugees in limbo;
- It stands up for their human rights like accomodation, education, self-development, i.e., the rights for living a life with basic human rights;
- It challenges the city and its inhabitants to create initiatives that reach further than the frameworks set by the national government;
- It emphasises the city’s power in the fight against inequality and exclusion by setting inclusivity and solidarity as the basis for society;
- It supports initiatives for and by people without documents in the city, and it supports initiatives for self-organisation, education and self-empowerment;
- It signals and monitors bottlenecks in the position of people without papers in the city (e.g., it lobbies for concrete improvements, like sheltering);
- It analyses, makes recommendations and works out plans with partnering organizations;
- It is a collaboration of inspired people, where it doesn’t matter if they have documents or not;
- It works together with migrant self-organizations, researchers, lawyers, artists, scientists, advocates, and policy makers (with or without documents).

Amsterdam City Rights is part of the Amsterdam alliance Samen Tegen Racisme (Together Against Racism) together with Comité 21 Maart, EMCEMO, Pan Asian Collective, Fite Qlub & Pakhuis de Zwijger.

Everyone is welcome to join! Please contact Fanny (+316 86306722) to join the Wednesday night meetings!

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Here to Support HQ
Afrikanerplein 1
1091PN Amsterdam

info[@]heretosupport.nl

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