UBUNTU: ITS ANTITHESIS:
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We declare our continued condemnation of the unlawful and illegitimate war in Iraq, our alarm at the worsening conflict between Israel and Palestine, our radical opposition to the consolidation of the "preventive use of force"... Following the serious crisis created in the WTO as a result of the Cancun conference...
Going to war, any war, is always a step back. A failure for democracy, development and understanding: a defeat for the whole of humanity! The environmental and social tragedy of the Prestige proves, once again, that the current framework of international institutions is not capable of performing the functions that are so-needed in the current state of the world affairs.
Changes on the international scene continue to arouse enormous concern. We believe we reflect the feelings of ever more of the world's people when we declare: Public statement by Federico Mayor in the context of UBUNTU - World Forum of Civil Society Networks, 1 July 2002
Following the Second World Food Summit (Rome, 10-13 June) I would like to put forward the following urgent points:
The evolution of the international situation is marked by a constant increase in tensions, conflicts and heedlessness, while at the same time the mechanisms for resolving these problems are increasingly ineffective - perhaps because a clear and energetic political will is lacking. In response to Italian gynaecologist Severino Antinori’s announcement that he has cloned a human embryo:
The extreme situation being reached in the Middle East, particularly in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, leads us to declare: As one of the key results of its second plenary meeting, held in Barcelona, UBUNTU -the World Network of Civil Society Networks- makes an appeal for international solidarity and to world public opinion mobilisation through the following declaration:
Ever since the 11 September tragedy in the USA, which has been so widely covered by the media, we have been hoping for those responsible to be identified and brought to justice. We must also be aware of many other tragedies that receive no media coverage yet affect thousands of human beings: around 30,000 die from hunger every day. We are deeply concerned about the spiral of violence and the weakening and confusion surrounding the role of the international institutions... In view of the terrible events that occurred in the US on 11 September and in view of the grave situation they have brought the world to, the undersigned persons and organizations take into consideration the previous statements realized by some of us (*) and state...
In view of the situation which is developing in Genova and within the framework of the recently created UBUNTU – World Forum of Networks, I believe I can speak for most organizations and persons which participate in this initiative, as I state the following...
On the occasion of World Environment Day, we, the undersigned organisations and personalities, in view of the grave threats represented by the impacts of the current model of development, in a context of lack of global political will in the direction of reversing the current dynamics, declare that...
ubuntu: its antithesis
We declare our continued condemnation of the unlawful and illegitimate war in Iraq, our alarm at the worsening conflict between Israel and Palestine, our radical opposition to the consolidation of the "preventive use of force"... Following the serious crisis created in the WTO as a result of the Cancun conference...
Going to war, any war, is always a step back. A failure for democracy, development and understanding: a defeat for the whole of humanity! The environmental and social tragedy of the Prestige proves, once again, that the current framework of international institutions is not capable of performing the functions that are so-needed in the current state of the world affairs.
Changes on the international scene continue to arouse enormous concern. We believe we reflect the feelings of ever more of the world's people when we declare: Public statement by Federico Mayor in the context of UBUNTU - World Forum of Civil Society Networks, 1 July 2002
Following the Second World Food Summit (Rome, 10-13 June) I would like to put forward the following urgent points:
The evolution of the international situation is marked by a constant increase in tensions, conflicts and heedlessness, while at the same time the mechanisms for resolving these problems are increasingly ineffective - perhaps because a clear and energetic political will is lacking. In response to Italian gynaecologist Severino Antinori’s announcement that he has cloned a human embryo:
The extreme situation being reached in the Middle East, particularly in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, leads us to declare: As one of the key results of its second plenary meeting, held in Barcelona, UBUNTU -the World Network of Civil Society Networks- makes an appeal for international solidarity and to world public opinion mobilisation through the following declaration:
Ever since the 11 September tragedy in the USA, which has been so widely covered by the media, we have been hoping for those responsible to be identified and brought to justice. We must also be aware of many other tragedies that receive no media coverage yet affect thousands of human beings: around 30,000 die from hunger every day. We are deeply concerned about the spiral of violence and the weakening and confusion surrounding the role of the international institutions... In view of the terrible events that occurred in the US on 11 September and in view of the grave situation they have brought the world to, the undersigned persons and organizations take into consideration the previous statements realized by some of us (*) and state...
In view of the situation which is developing in Genova and within the framework of the recently created UBUNTU – World Forum of Networks, I believe I can speak for most organizations and persons which participate in this initiative, as I state the following...
On the occasion of World Environment Day, we, the undersigned organisations and personalities, in view of the grave threats represented by the impacts of the current model of development, in a context of lack of global political will in the direction of reversing the current dynamics, declare that...
ubuntu: its antithesis
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