Point 8 - Challenging Racism and Discrimination Through Education
To strengthen measures against discrimination concerning access to and enjoyment of all forms of education, and to promote the provision of education based on mutual tolerance and understanding, and intercultural dialogue.
To intervene to ensure equal opportunities, especially in terms of access to education, through affirmative action policies,
To enact an anti-discrimination charter and an institutional mandate for teaching and training establishments run by the city authority in order to combat racism in access to education and racism at school,
To create an “Equality School” certificate to reward local schools for their anti-racist work and a “Mayor’s Prize” awarded regularly to the best local school initiative against racism,
To develop teaching material (textbooks, guides, audio-visual or multimedia documentation, kits) on mutual tolerance, respect of human dignity, peaceful coexistence and intercultural dialogue that is suited to strengthen the ability of pupils, teachers and trainers to operate in a multi-ethnic, multicultural and intercultural environment and to deal with the pressures and opportunities of such diversity.
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