Social Charter soon in All Baltic Languages

A team of young university students from several countries around the Baltic, with strong interest in politics, took the initiative to translate the UBC Social Charter from English into all the baltic languages. The Charter was adopted by the Plenary Session of the VI UBC General Conference in Rostock on 13 October 2001. These documents will be ready in mid November and sent out by the Secretariat of the UBC Commission on Health and Social Affairs to all UBC members and interested cities and persons.

Based on these documents we herewith encourage all cities to discuss the document within their parliaments, all entities/departments busy with social affairs in order to see how the Social Charter can be filled with life and which indicators could serve to measure the social quality of a city.

The next step in the work on the Social Charter will be creating the Steering Group and the Group of External Experts. Meanwhile, we would like to ask all the cities to name a Social Charter Consultant who should be the main contact partner for the Steering Group. We also call all UBC Commissions to study the document in order to find out which aspects meet their specific working fields.