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 <title>Charité et solidarité</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/node/320</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong &gt;La charité discréditée&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charité ? par quelle perversion de langage, ce mot, qui incarne l’essence même du christianisme a-t-il pu devenir synonyme d’attitude hautaine et paternaliste ? Charité : donner trois sous à un malheureux en occultant l’injustice qui est la cause de ce malheur ? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le mot charité a pris un sens détestable à cause des abus et des perversions des chrétiens du XIXe siècle, mais ces abus sont peut-être de tous les siècles. Abus qui consiste à donner par « gratuité » ce qui est dû en justice. L’épouse très catholique du patron exploiteur (lui-même plus souvent voltairien que catholique) vient en aide à la veuve éplorée de l’ouvrier sous payé, mal assuré, mort d’une maladie professionnelle évitable. Image caricaturale ?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:02:45 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Où va l’altermondialisme?</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/node/319</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;Avant de retomber dans le chaudron électoral français, les altermondialistes de notre pays ont eu la chance de pouvoir participer au 7e Forum Social Mondial à Nairobi du 20 au 25 janvier. Ils ont pu se retremper dans l’atmosphère d’un Forum : celui-ci n’est pas un mouvement social, il ne cherche pas à formuler une nouvelle idéologie politique, il ne constitue pas la Ve Internationale, après l’échec des quatre premières. Le Forum est un espace et non un mouvement, il est une méthode d’échange d’expériences et non un contenu. Il ne se laisse pas récupérer par des idéologies ou des coalitions électorales.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:01:08 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Pour le cinquantenaire du Traité de Rome Où va l’Union Européenne?</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/node/318</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;Les célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de la signature du Traité de Rome le 25 mars suscitent des difficultés. Que faut-il inscrire parmi les réussites de l’Europe unie ? que faut-il faire pour échapper à la morosité de l’Union ? etc. L’Union Européenne est certes actuellement en panne de vision. Ce n’est pas la première fois. Aussi, est-il plus que jamais l’heure de rouvrir un large débat sur l’avenir de l’Union Européenne, de s’interroger sur les finalités de cette construction européenne, sur la qualité de notre « vouloir vivre ensemble ».&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:58:27 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Pourquoi faut-il maintenir un Forum Social Mondial ?</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/node/119</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;Le troisime Forum Social Mondial vient de se tenir Porto Alegre fin janvier
  en mme temps que le Forum Economique Mondial se tenait Davos. Faut-il maintenir
  un Forum social mondial ? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le Forum social mondial n&amp;rsquo;est pas le sommet des organisations de base
  ni la runion de ceux qui croient tre les leaders dont le monde actuel a besoin.
  Le Forum social est un espace de rencontres et un apprentissage mutuel dans
  le respect de la diversit de chacun. Le succs du Forum s&amp;rsquo;explique, si
  l&amp;rsquo;on en croit C. Whitaker, l&amp;rsquo;un de ses responsables, parce qu&amp;rsquo;il
  privilgie le travail en rseau, et qu&amp;rsquo;il refuse les comportements autoritaires
  propres l&amp;rsquo;action politique traditionnelle. Des reprsentants des organisations
  sociales du monde entier tentent de construire un monde centr sur la personne
  humaine et non sur l&amp;rsquo;accumulation des profits. La nouveaut de cette anne
  a t la convergence de cette recherche d&amp;rsquo;alternative conomique et sociale
  avec la mouvance pacifiste revitalise par les bruits de guerre en Irak. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>E-Update No 12, September 16, 2002</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/eupdate12</link>
 <description> &lt;div class=&quot;image_article&quot;&gt;
  &lt;a href=&quot;node/20&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;files/images/wssd_2002.thumbnail.jpg&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; alt=&quot;WSSD 2002&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;The &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; 2002 ended with little substantive outcome and left enormous challenges
  to all of us.&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you know by now, the &lt;strong&gt;World Summit on &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; (WSSD) &lt;/strong&gt;ended
  on September 4 with the adoption of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action.
  Many participants including the &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; delegation were disappointed with the
  outcome. Nevertheless, what is important and clear to us is that the WSSD is
  part of a global effort in tackling the issues of environmental and social
  justice for sustainability which still has a long way to go. Perhaps Rio 1992
  was two steps forward while Johannesburg 2002 was one step back.ward. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:42:41 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>The Lima Declaration</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/lima_declaration_2002</link>
 <description> &lt;h4&gt;Chaclacayo, Lima, Peru, July 6 to 9, 2002&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;International Seminar on &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;, on the Road to Rio+ 10&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We, fourty eight members of the lnternational Catholic Movement for Intellectual
  and Cultural Affairs (&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;-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&lt;em&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;want to contribute to the process
  of the World Summit for Sustainable Development with the reflections that follow. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:47:26 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Declaracion de Lima</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/declaracion_lima_2002</link>
 <description> &lt;h4&gt;Chaclacayo, Lima-Peru, 6-9 de julio de 2002&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Seminario Internacional de Desarrollo Sostenible, En Camino a Rio+ 10&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Provenimos de 9 pases de Amrica Latina y el Caribe, y de otras regiones del
  mundo, somos miembros de &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term62&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;MIIC: Mouvement Catholique International Pour les Affaires Intellectuelles et Culturelles,  Movimiento Internacional de Intelectuales Católicos&quot;&gt;MIIC&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;-Pax Romana, reunidos en Chaclacayo- Lima, Per,
  del 6 al 9 de julio del 2002, fecha en la que se realiz el &lt;em&gt;Seminario Internacional
  de Desarrollo Humano Sostenible, en camino a Ro + 10. &lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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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>African Regional Advocacy Workshop on Human Rights and Sustainable Development</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/nairoby_2002</link>
 <description> &lt;h4&gt;African Regional Advocacy Workshop 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 &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;
  Nairobi, Africa&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nairobi Declaration for Sustainable Development in Africa &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;There is no sustainable development without sustainable peace and respect
  for human rights&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nairobi, May 11, 2002&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We, over 50 participants from 17 different countries mostly Africa[1], having met in Nairobi,
  Kenya from 5 to 11 May 2002 at the &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; African Regional Advocacy Workshop
  on Human Rights and Sustainable Development around the theme &amp;quot;Human Rights
  and Sustainable Development - The Challenge 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] to African Christian
  Professionals in a Globalising World&amp;quot; jointly convened by Pax Romana ICMICA
  Africa and the International Secretariat of ICMICA based in Geneva and hosted
  by CMICA Kenya, ICMICA member federation in Kenya,[3] &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2002 20:08:03 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Innovative Resources for Development</title>
 <link>http://www.paxromana.org/node/103</link>
 <description> &lt;p&gt;New York, 17 October 2001 &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;CIDSE, Caritas Internationalis, Franciscans International, Pax Romana and
  VIVAT International promote an ethical approach to tackling socio-economic
  problems. Our networks support the concept of a preferential option for the
  poor, redistribution of wealth and power. We believe much more action is needed
  in order to achieve the 2015 international development targets as set at the
  &lt;a class=&quot;glossary-term&quot; href=&quot;glossary#term118&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;UN: United Nations&quot;&gt;UN&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Millennium Summit, particularly the goals of halving the number of people
  living in poverty. We therefore call on governments to formulate, agree and
  implement concrete initiatives increase official development aid, extend debt
  relief beyond HIPC countries and explore and implement innovative resources
  to prevent social exclusion and promote and finance sustainable development. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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