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Health and Social Development
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Declaration on the Right to Development
Rio Declaration
Helsinki Declaration on Action for Environment and Health in Europe
Copenhagen Declaration
Istanbul Declaration and Habitat Agenda
Declaration by the Peoples’ Health Movement of Latin America and the
Caribbean
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network - A DECLARATION
United Nations International Conference on Population and Development
(ICPD), Programme for Action, 1994
Amsterdam Declaration on the Social Quality of Europe, Amsterdam, 1997
Ouagadougou Declaration, 2000
Dakar Declaration - Pesticide Action Network Fifth International
Conference, 2000
The Dakar Declaration for the total unconditional cancellation of
African and Third World debt, 2000
Rome Declaration on
Harmonisation, 2003
The
Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption, 2005
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and Accra Agenda for Action,
2005/2008
Seoul
Declaration on Safety and Health at Work, 2008
Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the
Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to
Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus – 2008
Klimaforum 9, “People’s Declaration on System Change – Not Climate
Change”, 2009
Durban Declaration, 8th Disabled People’s International World Assembly,
2011
ISTANBUL DECLARATION: TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR
ALL, 2012
The Future We Demand - Statement by Pacific CSOs and allies the Rio+20
UN Conference on Sustainable Development, April 2012
DAWN SPEAKS TRUTH TO
POWER AT RIO+20!
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A call for a society that rises above capitalism, founding a new, truly
human civilisation based on solidarity and harmony with the environment; for
sovereignty in health, by building together the conditions that enable a
dignified life for human communities and their environment; health to be in
the hands of people, thus reclaiming and appreciating the enormous wealth of
knowledge, practices and experience that people of Latin America and the
Caribbean have in protecting and caring for health; public, universal,
equitable health systems with social justice that are multicultural and
include promotion, prevention, treatment and supportive care, returning to
the original meaning of these terms, which go beyond lifestyle and refer to
the integrality of people and much more.
Source:
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/8912
See full Declaration here:
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/8911
The International Women's Earth & Climate Summit was held on September 20 –
23, 2013 in New York. The Summit brought together 100 global women leaders
including grassroots activists, economists, scientists, businesswomen,
Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, faith leaders, culture shapers for 3.5
days to help further a women’s climate action agenda. The IWECI Summit was
not a one-time event but rather is the beginning of long-term campaigns and
projects to embrace climate solutions and build resilient communities. We
plan to work in alliance with many other organizations and projects that are
already underway as well as create new projects and campaigns when and where
appropriate. From promoting local and ecological food and energy models to
advocating for a rights based approach to sustainability, WECAN is dedicated
to a future where communities thrive and women are empowered. This
Declaration was ratified by Delegates to the International Women’s Earth and
Climate Summit September 20-23, 2013, New York, USA.
Source:
http://wecaninternational.org/
See full Declaration here:
http://wecaninternational.org/declaration#.VCpr6meSxMA
The International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 5 to 13 September 1994.
Delegations from 179 States took part in negotiations to finalize a
Programme of Action on population and development for the next 20 years. The
115-page document, adopted by acclamation on 13 September, endorsed a new
strategy which emphasized the numerous linkages between population and
development and focuses on meeting the needs of individual women and men
rather than on achieving demographic targets. Key to this new approach was
empowering women and providing them with more choices through expanded
access to education and health services and promoting skill development and
employment. The Programme advocated making family planning universally
available by 2015, or sooner, as part of a broadened approach to
reproductive health and rights, provided estimates of the levels of national
resources and international assistance that will be required, and called on
Governments to make these resources available.
Source:
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/populatin/icpd.htm
For the FINAL Programme of Action of the United Nations International
Conference on Population & Development see:
http://www.un.org/popin/icpd/conference/offeng/poa.html
On June 10 1997, at a public ceremony in Amsterdam, a
group of European social scientists from the fields of social policy,
sociology, political science, law and economics signed a declaration on the
future of the European Union. The Declaration began as follows: “Respect for
the fundamental human dignity of all citizens requires us to declare that we
do not want to see growing numbers of beggars, tramps and homeless in the
cities of Europe. Nor can we countenance a Europe with large numbers of
unemployed, growing numbers of poor people and those who have only limited
access to health care and social services. These and many other negative
indicators demonstrate the current inadequacy of Europe to provide social
quality for all its citizens. We want, in contrast, a European society that
is economically successful, but which, at the same time, promotes social
justice and participation for its citizens. This would be a Europe in which
social quality is paramount. Its citizens would be able and required to
participate in the social and economic life of their communities and to do
so under conditions which enhance their well-being, their individual
potential and the welfare of their communities. To be able to participate,
citizens must have access to an acceptable level of economic security and of
social inclusion, live in cohesive communities, and be empowered to develop
their full potential. In other words, social quality depends on the extent
to which economic, social and political citizenship is enjoyed by all
residents of Europe. In a globalized economy competitiveness should go hand
in hand with the promotion of social cohesion and the realisation of the
full potential of each European citizen”.
Source:
http://www.socialquality.org/
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.socialquality.org/site/html/declaration.html#top
The 5th Pan African Conference was convened in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in September 2000 with delegates from 51 African
National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in attendance. The conference
focused on two key themes: ARCHI 2010 (The African Red Cross and Red
Crescent Health Initiative) and Food security. The text of the Ouagadougou
Declaration was subsequently presented to the UN Secretariat on 10 October
2000.
Source:
http://www.undemocracy.com/
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.undemocracy.com/A-55-480.pdf
Preamble: We 120 participants from 40 countries,
representing farmers, workers, agricultural trade unions, women, scientists
and health, environmental, consumer and development activists belonging to
the international Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and its partner
organizations, have gathered in Dakar, Senegal for the Fifth International
PAN Conference from May 18-21, 2000.
We view with grave concern the developments that threaten the people's food
security, health and livelihood and the environment around the world.
Pesticide use continues to wreak havoc on people's health and well being,
and on the environment. At the same time, transnational corporations are
developing and marketing genetically engineered organisms and food that
threaten the environment, biodiversity and people's health, jobs and
livelihoods. This technology will consolidate corporate control over
agriculture and food production, increase pesticide use and undermine farmer
control over seeds and technology.
The process of globalization promotes the corporate agenda for profit. This
is undermining local food production and increasing the practice of food
dumping, especially on poor countries, the sale of unnecessary and dangerous
agricultural inputs, the concentration of monopoly corporations in
agrochemical, food and seed industries, the development of genetic
engineering and the corporatization of agriculture.
We are deeply concerned with the resultant loss of access and
self-sufficiency in food, loss of local and indigenous knowledge and seeds,
displacement of farming and fishing livelihood, break-up of rural
communities, increased indebtedness for farmers, forced migration of people,
greater misery for women, hunger and malnutrition, especially for rural
populations, land concentration and marginalization of sustainable
agriculture.
We commit ourselves to fight for the elimination of pesticides, the
termination of genetic engineering of organisms in food and agriculture, the
end of corporate globalization and the realization of food sovereignty and
sustainable agriculture worldwide.
Source:
http://www.pan-international.org/pan-v1/index.html
See full text of the Dakar Declaration at:
http://www.pan-international.org/pan-v1/dakarDeclarationEn.html
Adopted in Dakar Senegal on December 14, 2000, by participants at the
Dakar 2000 meeting for the Cancellation of Third World Debt, representing
African people's civil societies, supported by civil societies from Latin
America, Asia, Europe and North America, that analysized and proposed action
on the debt issue, of structural adjustment plans (SAPs) and development.
Source, and see full text of the Declaration at:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/50Years_Enough/Dakar_Declaration.html
Ministers, Heads of Aid Agencies and other Senior Officials representing
28 aid recipient countries and more than 40 multilateral and bilateral
development institutions endorsed the Rome Declaration on Harmonisation in
February 2003.
Source: http://www.oecd.org/
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/50/31451637.pdf
On 10-12 February 2005, fifty researchers from around the world met in
Oslo for the final workshop of the three-year project Life Cycle Approaches
to Sustainable Consumption (for proceedings click here). This initiative was
led by the Japanese Society for Non-Traditional Technology (SNTT) and the
Research Center for Life Cycle Assessment (AIST) and supported financially
by the Japanese government. The project built on prior work in sustainable
consumption and provided for an extended period of structured exchange among
researchers active in the area.
Source:
http://www.oslodeclaration.org/
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.oslodeclaration.org/
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the
General Assembly on Thursday September 13, 2007 by a majority of 144 states
in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United
States) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi,
Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine.
Since its adoption, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States
have all reversed their positions and now endorse the Declaration. Colombia
and Samoa also reversed their positions and indicated their support for the
Declaration.
Source, and see PDF of the document at:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf
The Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action (2005/2008) were
founded on five core principles, born out of decades of experience of what
works for development, and what does not. These principles have gained
support across the development community, changing aid practice for the
better: It is now the norm for aid recipients to forge their own national
development strategies with their parliaments and electorates (ownership);
for donors to support these strategies (alignment) and work to streamline
their efforts in-country (harmonisation); for development policies to be
directed to achieving clear goals and for progress towards these goals to be
monitored (results); and for donors and recipients alike to be jointly
responsible for achieving these goals (mutual accountability). Beyond its
principles on effective aid, the Paris Declaration (2005) laid out a
practical, action-oriented roadmap to improve the quality of aid and its
impact on development. It put in place a series of specific implementation
measures and establishes a monitoring system to assess progress and ensure
that donors and recipients hold each other accountable for their
commitments. The Paris Declaration outlined five fundamental principles for
making aid more effective.
Source:
http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,3746,en_2649_3236398_35401554_1_1_1_1,00.html
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/41/34428351.pdf
The Declaration on Safety and Health at Work, adopted by the World Summit
on Safety and Health in Seoul on June 29, 2008 provided a new global
reference point for addressing occupational safety and health issues around
the world.
Source:
http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_095910/lang--en/index.htm
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/statement/wcms_095910.pdf
Member States adopted by consensus the Doha Declaration on Financing for
Development (A/CONF.212/L.1/Rev.1*) at the closing of the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2
December 2008). The declaration reaffirms the Monterrey Consensus and calls
for a United Nations Conference at the highest level to examine the impact
of the world financial and economic crisis on development. Officials from
more than 160 countries, including nearly 40 Heads of State or Government,
attended the four day conference.
Source:
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/documents/Doha_Declaration_FFD.pdf
On December 11th 2009 the participating grassroots organisations, NGOs,
movements and networks at Klimaforum09, finalised the “People’s Declaration
– System Change – Not Climate Change”. From December 13th to 18th, more than
300 organisations and numerous individuals from all corner of the world
signed the Declaration. This joint accomplishment of a large and broad
spectrum of very diverse organisations is noteworthy and even surpassed the
expectations of the coordination group behind the process. However, the
positive result could not have been achieved if it had not been for the
lively debates ensuring the legitimacy of the process; the dedicated
international editorial board; and all the committed people stepping into
the process who also helped spread the core messages of the important
script. On December 18th, the last day of the COP15 in Copenhagen, the
Declaration was handed over to the UNFCCC after a short intervention in
plenary. More organisations and individuals have subsequently signed the
Declaration and continue to do so.
Source:
http://declaration.klimaforum.org/
See PDF of the document at:
http://declaration.klimaforum.org/files/declaration/declaration_screen.pdf
People with disabilities and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) from
66 countries of the world participated in the 8th Disabled People’s
International (DPI) World Assembly held from October 10-13, 2011 in Durban,
Republic of South Africa. The Assembly produced the Durban declaration that
called for the removal all barriers – both physical and otherwise, in the
way of true emancipation of people with disabilities and to prevent
discrimination of any kind, based on any type of disability, specially
intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities.
Source:
http://www.dpi.org/lang-en/documents/index?page=18
Delegates to the first Global Human Development Forum held in Istanbul,
unanimously adopted an “Istanbul Declaration” on March 23, 2012 calling on
the world community to take bold action against global social inequities and
environmental deterioration at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
in Rio this June. “It is time to reset the global development agenda,” the
Istanbul Declaration states. “The world needs a renewed commitment to
sustainable development and strong political leadership to implement it.”
The Istanbul Declaration was adopted by consensus at the conclusion of the
two-day Global Human Development Forum, a gathering of more than 200 leading
development experts, civil society activists, government ministers, private
sector representatives and UN officials from all regions of the world. The
Forum was organized by UNDP’s Human Development Report Office and Bureau of
Development Policy in partnership with the Government of Turkey’s Ministry
of Development.
Source:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/forum2012/
See PDF of the document at:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/Istanbul%20Declaration%2023%20March%202012.pdf
Pacific Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and allies appealed to member
states of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in
June 2012 for strong political leadership to avert the imminent disaster to
our planet by urgently changing dominant development and political mindsets,
and moving quickly to real and transformative solutions.
Source: http://www.dawnnet.org
See Statement at:
http://www.dawnnet.org/advocacy-cso.php?id=202
On the occasion of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil (RIO+20, from June 20-22), Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era (DAWN) issued the statement, ‘DAWN SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER
AT RIO+20!’
The Preamble: “Ixchal is a sharp and wise Mayan goddess. One of her signs is
the rainbow as her wisdom comes from the fertility of the earth. She would
find little to celebrate and much to correct, in the final days of the
Rio+20 negotiations on sustainable development.
With so much at stake it is wise to take a moment for a deeper reflection on
this historic conference and the current state of the proposed outcome
document,"The Future We Want". As women from the economic South how do we
assess key convergences, divergences and contradictions shaping the
inter-governmental deliberations? What are our bottom lines and hopes as we
speak truth to power?
We set the stage of this assessment by quoting a statement by over 150 young
women activists from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America & the
Caribbean, that DAWN gathered over the past two years in a series of
regional meetings to strengthen policy analysis and advocacy on the nexus
between gender, economic and ecological justice.
"We reject models based on extractivism and current production and
consumption patterns that do not contemplate an integral vision of
development… We need policies and programs that empower communities and
individuals, rather than exposing us to market assault and the changes in
climate that affect land, livelihoods, handicrafts, indigenous medicines,
staple food, symbolic wealth and our caring social relationships that
include women’s informal networks of mutual support."
Source: http://www.dawnnet.org
See Statement at:
http://www.dawnnet.org/advocacy-cso.php?id=235
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