Originally developed by the People's Movement (Decade) for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) in 1997, human rights cities have been created in Argentina, Senegal, Bangladesh and other nations around the world.  The goal of human rights cities is to allow all people to understand and achieve basic human rights to equality and justice.  What makes Graz, Austria a unique human rights city is not only that it’s the first of its kind in Europe, but that it is also the first created in a fully-developed, western country.