Progress
What is progress? A recent example, for the Charter of Human Responsibilities network, was the outcome in June 2010 of the organization in Brasilia of an international children’s and youth conference, “Let’s Take Care of the Planet”, attended by 400 girls and boys from 53 countries and all 5 continents, the final destination of a process that involved millions of people all over the world, where our children, with their ideas, their proposals, and their dreams, were the main protagonists.
This conference involved the ministries of the environment and of national education of Brazil, which as a result of two national conferences in 2003 and 2005, had already fostered, notably in pre-primary and primary education, a great variety of educational actions and programs that have contributed to spreading environmental education.
But progress can be great or small, discreet or loud. The publication and circulation in June 2010 of a compilation of stories on responsibility, Les histoires de la petite étoile, in French and in Greek. The commitment in 2010 of senior Nepalese government officials alongside civil-society organizations to set up a common action plan to promote cultures of responsibilities. A choir of Senegalese children singing the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Starting in 2011, the Forum of Ethics and Responsibilities proposes to take this adventure forward, reaching out to all societies, from their grass roots to their highest bodies and aiming to promote cultures of responsibility and a global reference text that will make the universal principles of human responsibilities explicit. Welcome on board!
Photos: Dandilions, by Tony Cyphert
and Polka Dot Runner, by 802
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Some of the main activities of the R&R Collective formed in 2012 in India.
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Making Responsibility the Ethical Core of the Twenty-first Century and the Foundation of a Third Pillar for the International Community: What Strategy Should We Implement after the Failure of Rio+20? The following lines will take you back for some history on the need of a Charter of Universal Responsibilities, how this was taken to Brazil and Rio+20 and now, how to shape the After Rio+20 and promote the ethics of responsibility. Please note that this is only an extract, the Synthesis and (...)
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"There is no such international reference text pertaining to the obligation to assume responsibility, […]And yet, responsibility for safeguarding the environment and ensuring a life of dignity for present and future generations is a common task that has to be shared by all, be it at different degrees." Read this important and needed paper on concepts and relationship of human rights and responsibilities written by Edith Sizoo, the International Coordinator of the Forum on Ethics & (...)
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The Programme of Ethics and Responsibility composes a part of the growing tendency of Humanity which promotes the consciousness of personal Responsibilities as an indispensable principle for the making of a sustainable life in the 21stcentury. A part of its strategic proposals and actions is the incorporation of Responsibility within both the programmes of formal studies and the practices of informal studies – an indispensable step towards the construction of the culture of (...)
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Call on Governments for Charter of Universal Responsibilities Formally Delivered to Peru Government
by (11 May 2012)Peru’s representative at the United Nations committed to make the Call on Governments and the proposal for a Charter of Universal Responsibilities known to the highest government authorities for Rio+20 …
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Forum of Ethics & Responsibilities Proposes Alternative Zero Draft for Rio+20 Conference
by (26 April 2012)After a broad consultation with partners including our team, the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation (FPH), which funds the Ethics & Responsibilities program, has drawn up a list of proposed amendments to the UN’s “Zero draft of the outcome document” of the coming UN Rio+20 Conference. Read, tell us if you agree, suggest other amendments!
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How can research be kept free of conflicts of interests? The American Economic Association has formulated specific guidelines for this: good progress and a good reference text, but applying only to articles published in AEA journals. How can this be generalized to the world of scholars?
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Andean Parliament Considers Charter of Universal Responsibilities for the Rio+20 Summit (14 March 2012)The Charter process on the way to Rio+20 is reaching top official representatives. Here is one example in South America.
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