As DELEGATES to the PEOPLE'S CONGRES elected
directly and democratically by a Trans national
electorate, spread over 110 countries
WE STATE:
- That children and adolescents represent more than
half of the world population and are the future of
mankind
- That however the fate of most of them does not
worry sufficiently the generation who gave them
birth
In fact:
- The numerous declarations in their favour made at
the UN have had no impact at all
- The International Labour Organisation recognized
that it could not abolish child labour everywhere in
the world
- The basic needs for survival are not available for
them all
- Almost everywhere, children and teenagers remain
totally dependant on adult's power and bound to the
economic and financial priorities that suit the
adults
- In some countries they are deprived of freedom,
forced into alienating and dehumanising institutions
under the pretext of family morality
- The observance of certain traditions means for
some of them to the loss of their physical and moral
integrity leading to severe mutilations and
tortures
WE DENOUNCE:
- The propaganda made by several Nation-States in
favour of an excessive and irresponsible demographical
growth destined to insure economical, racist and
ideological predominance
- The low level of alphabetization and education in
the Third and Fourth World countries slows down the
emancipation of the young generations.
- The Compulsory military conscription for young
people in most of the Nation States
- The sale of children and adolescents
WE AFFIRM:
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