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Question of the Creation of the United Nations - Human Rights Council (HRC)
The written statement of Pax Romana for the 62nd Session of UN Commission on Human Rights under Agenda Item 18: Effective Functioning of human rights mechanism.
Human rights is a notion that has been determinedly evolving throughout human history. They have been intricately attached to the laws, customs and religions throughout time. But only after the utter atrocities committed during the World War II the international community changed the view on human rights, recognizing that these rights were to be proclaimed and enforced universally. In the aftermath of the Holocaust the world expressed the need for the protection of a set of inalienable human rights.
Luxembourg European Declaration
1. Our generations have been marked by a new awareness of European unity. After one of the blackest centuries in our history, after the conflicts and the fascisms, the night and fog of the nazi extermination, the scourge of communism - for the first time our continent can imagine a shared future, in a democratic prospect of freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. Thus the 20th century saw the birth of great hopes. It was the time when democracies took root, when the economy boomed as never before, when the first ecumenical gains were made, when the thought of the founding fathers of the united Europe was shaped and there was a pastoral and religious renaissance launched by the Vatican II Council.
Declaracin Europea de Luxemburgo
- Nuestras generaciones han estado marcadas por la conciencia de la unidad de Europa. Despus de uno de los siglos ms negros de nuestra historia, despus de las guerras y el fascismo, la oscuridad y la niebla de la exterminacin nazi, del azote del comunismo- por primera vez nuestro continente puede imaginar compartir el futuro desde una perspectiva democrtica de libertad, igualdad y de aplicacin y respeto de los derechos humanos. De este modo el siglo XX conoci el nacimiento de grandes ilusiones. Fue el tiempo cuando se afianzaron las democracias, cuando la economa creci como nunca lo haba hecho, cuando se realizaron los primeros logros ecumnicos, cuando se dise el pensamiento de los padres de la unin europea y cuando emergi el renacimiento espiritual y religioso del Concilio Vaticano II.
Poverty and Injustice as Challenges to Ethics and Cultures - Responsibility of Christian Professionals
"Poverty and Injustice as Challenges to Ethics and Cultures - Responsibility of Christian Professionals" was the theme of the study session of the 29th Plenary Assembly of ICMICA/MIIC from 24 to 26 July 2004 in Warsaw, Poland. About 130 participants from all the continents gathered at the Assembly. The Assembly was hosted by the Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej(KIK), the ICMICA-affiliated Federation in Poland.
The Lima Declaration
Chaclacayo, Lima, Peru, July 6 to 9, 2002
International Seminar on Sustainable Development, on the Road to Rio+ 10
We, fourty eight members of the lnternational Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA-Pax Romana), coming from nine Latin American and Caribbean countries and from other continents of the world, meeting in Chaclacayo, Lima, Peru, from July 6 to 9, 2002, for the International Seminar On Sustainable Development, On The Road To Rio + 10, want to contribute to the process of the World Summit for Sustainable Development with the reflections that follow.
Declaracion de Lima
Chaclacayo, Lima-Peru, 6-9 de julio de 2002
Seminario Internacional de Desarrollo Sostenible, En Camino a Rio+ 10
Provenimos de 9 pases de Amrica Latina y el Caribe, y de otras regiones del mundo, somos miembros de MIIC-Pax Romana, reunidos en Chaclacayo- Lima, Per, del 6 al 9 de julio del 2002, fecha en la que se realiz el Seminario Internacional de Desarrollo Humano Sostenible, en camino a Ro + 10.
Pax Romana - ICMICA Asia Pacific Regional Advocacy Workshop on Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Bali, Indonesia
22-28, May 2002
Bali Declaration on Human Rights and Ecologically Sustainable Development in the Various Parts of The Asia Pacific Region
We, over seventy men and women, from eleven country members of Pax Romana-ICMICA[1], met in Bali, Indonesia, from 22 to 28 May 2002 for the Asia Pacific Advocacy Workshop on Human Rights and Sustainable Development in association with the 4th PrepCom of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)[2] from 27 May to 7 June 2002.
