Please, see to it that the World Citizens Pact is read as widely as possible,
as the expression of all the fundamental rights
every person on earth may claim.

As future World Citizens,

Faced with the preparations for destruction which are being organized before our eyes, and with the confessed helplessness of the nation-states, of the blocs, of the United Nations, in order to defend our lives,

We declare every person, every village, every city, and the human race itself in danger.

We declare that the whole of humankind has a right to defend itself against any sovereign state, any ideology, or any propaganda which claims to justify war.

We declare the world community in danger.

Before it is too late :

We want a common system of law and a FEDERAL WORLD POWER able to enforce it.

We ask that we, the people of the world, the only true sovereign in the crisis, be democratically consulted, and that we organize for ourselves elections to a PEOPLE'S CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, and at the same time, the FIRST WORLD TECHNICAL ORGANIZATIONS to guarantee our food, our security, and our service of public information.

To the first representatives elected to the Peoples' Assembly, we assign the imperative task of mediating between the two world blocs a thirty-year truce, which will permit all people to recover their strength and to develop mechanical production to the maximum for peaceful purposes.

Convinced that the time has come for every person to give his/her active service to humankind :

We call on the most outstanding representatives of science and learning, to accept their responsibility in order that all may cease to live in fear.

We call all people to new and heroic acts, acts of refusal, courage, and hope,on which our common future now depends.

We call on all people everywhere to mobilize for peace, so as not to be mobilized to morrow by their Governments for war.

We intend to count our forces, ignoring frontiers, by accepting a card common to all citizens of the world.

We shall remain watchful and active until the people of the world assemble to give the world a Constitution.

Convinced that governments will not hear our voice unless, we are tens of millions strong, and that there can be no world community unless a new confidence is born between every person and their neighbour :

In place of Pacts between Governments, we offer this Pact between People !

1949