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 <title>Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC - Asia-Pacific</title>
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 <title>An update on the ICMICA Federations and contact groups in Asia (1999)</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/hk_report_1999_update</link>
 <description> &lt;h3&gt;1. Australia&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The International Movement of Catholic Graduates (IMCG) in Australia.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt; The IMCG has been inactive as member organization of &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term33&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;ICMICA: International Catholic Movement for Intellectual &amp;amp; Cultural Affaris&quot;&gt;ICMICA&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Australia.
  However, there are several potential groups of young professionals in different
  cities such as Perth, Sydney, etc who are former member of &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term36&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;IMCS: International Movement of Catholic Students&quot;&gt;IMCS&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term66&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;IYCS: International Young Catholic Students&quot;&gt;IYCS&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. There
  are also several Asian migrants who are interested to set up a group. There
  is an urgent need to visit and establish formal links with those potential
  groups. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:17:34 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Report on the Situation of ICMICA Asia/Pacific in 1997 and 1998</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/hk_report_1999_icmica</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Supee Nutchanart, Regional Coordinator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt; 1. Introduction&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The years 1997 and 1998 were marked as another challenging and exciting time
  for &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term33&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;ICMICA: International Catholic Movement for Intellectual &amp;amp; Cultural Affaris&quot;&gt;ICMICA&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Asia/Pacific. Despite limitations and constraints in terms of human
  and financial resources, we have continued to grow with regard to perspectives,
  dynamics, organizational capacity building and networking at the regional level. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:15:30 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Report on the Hong Kong Forum on Lay Leadership in Asia</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/hk_report_1999</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lay Leadership and Empowerment for the 21st Century in Asia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hong Kong, May 27 to 31, 1999&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://www.paxromana.org/taxonomy/term/13">Asia-Pacific</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:01:08 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Pax Romana - ICMICA Asia Pacific Regional Advocacy Workshop on Human Rights and Sustainable Development</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/bail_2002_fs</link>
 <description> &lt;div class=&quot;image_article&quot;&gt;
  &lt;a href=&quot;node/15&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;files/images/bail_ws_group.thumbnail.jpg&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; alt=&quot;Bali Workshop on Human Rights and Ecologically Sustainable Development&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;Bali, Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;
  22-28, May 2002&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Bali Declaration on &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term51&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Human Rights: Privileges claimed or enjoyed by every human being by virtue of being human. The concept developed from the Roman idea of &amp;#039;natural law&amp;#039;. Early milestones in establishing human rights include the British Magna Carta (1215), Habeas Corpus Act (1679) and Bill of Rights (1689). None of these were as fundamentally comprehensive as the US Bill of Rights (1788) or France&amp;#039;s Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789). During the nineteenth century, human rights began to be enshrined in international law, best illustrated by the Geneva Conventions, a series of treaties which governed the humane treatment of civilians, soldiers and prisoners during times of war.
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948. It stated that people have the right to life, liberty and education; to freedom of movement, religion, association and information; to a nationality and to equality before the law. Many nations still deny their citizens basic rights. &quot;&gt;Human Rights&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Ecologically &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term56&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Sustainable Development: Ultimately, all economic development depends on the earth&amp;#039;s natural resource base. It is the primary biological production generated by photosynthesis that sustains the human race and virtually every other life form. Maintaining this biological productivity is therefore the key to sustainability. It is also crucial that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. That is why sustainable development implies limits.

To be &amp;#039;sustainable&amp;#039;, development must meet human needs without depleting resources or irrevocably damaging the systems which produce those resources. Under present conditions, organic matter equivalent to 40%% of the primary production of the earth&amp;#039;s ecosystems is being consumed by humans. If the world population doubles humans will devour as much biological material as is produced each year. At this level of exploitation the quality of the environment and, consequently, of human life will quickly decline.

The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainable development as a &amp;#039;process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations&amp;#039;.
&quot;&gt;Sustainable Development&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  in the Various Parts of The Asia Pacific Region&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We, over seventy men and women, from eleven country members of Pax Romana-&lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term33&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;ICMICA: International Catholic Movement for Intellectual &amp;amp; Cultural Affaris&quot;&gt;ICMICA&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;[1],
  met in Bali, Indonesia, from 22 to 28 May 2002 for the &lt;em&gt;Asia Pacific Advocacy
  Workshop on Human Rights and Sustainable Development&lt;/em&gt; in association with
  the 4th PrepCom of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (&lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term41&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;WSSD: World Summit on Sustainable Development&quot;&gt;WSSD&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)[2] from 27 May to 7 June 2002. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:27:23 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Inter-Continental Workshop on Racial Discrimination (Final Statement)</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/chennai_fs</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, July 21 to 25, 2001&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. More than 60 participants from several States in India and 15 countries
  of all continents gathered in Chennai, India from July 21 to 25, 2001 around
  the theme of &amp;quot;People&#039;s Struggle for Global Racial Justice - A Challenge
  in a Globalizing World&amp;quot; for an Intercontinental Workshop on Racial Discrimination
  organized by Pax Romana &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term33&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;ICMICA: International Catholic Movement for Intellectual &amp;amp; Cultural Affaris&quot;&gt;ICMICA&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2001 18:39:11 -0700</pubDate>
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