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Framework for the International Trade EN

2008-08-27T16:41:50Z

Lorraine:

Trade, which is one facet of human activity, must obey the imperative of responsibility.

Nowadays, trade is practised within an international community already endowed with numerous institutions: the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Office (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)………

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has great power on trade matters. Yet it was not created by the UN, it does not cooperate with the ILO, and takes little interest in the social and environmental consequences of its decisions. In any case, it is the place where trade disputes, with short-term economic interests, are played out.

If the WTO is so seriously defaulting on its imperative of responsibility, it is up to us, here, to put international trade back in its proper place, to integrate it into the hierarchy of norms and regulations, to assign it its framework and its mandate.

Ethics EN

2008-08-26T09:38:39Z

Lorraine:

Humanity, faced with a fragile environment and an uncertain future, must act collectively according to principles of responsibility.

These principles must extend to the earth's biosphere and to the distant horizon of future generations to guide our decisions on present actions, in the field of politics.

Listening to the silent appeal emitted by the whole living world, where it sees its integrity threatened, we hereby formulate these principles:

• "Consider vulnerable nature a good entrusted to you"

• "Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine
human life"

As we do not know the ultimate, cumulative and irreversible effects of our technological successes, we formulate the following principle:

'''.''' "Ensure that your power to do does not exceed your power to foresee, to evaluate and to judge"

In short: (cf. Hans Jonas): the '''imperative of responsibility'''

Template:Actionnable themes

2008-08-26T09:15:59Z

Lorraine:

{{XLanguage|en=Actionnable themes EN|fr=Actionnable themes FR|es=Actionnable themes ES|de=Actionnable themes DE|pt=Actionnable themes PT}}
<To be developed-work in progress>
* [[Ethics]];
* [[Framework for International Trade]];
* Political institutions and democracy;
* Peace and war;
* Housing and human habitat;
* Gender issues and women's struggles;
* Dignity, diversity of human beings, discriminations;
* Human rights;
* Youth;
* Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform;
* Labor and workers;
* Education;
* Environment and energy;
* Health;
* Knowledge, information and communication;
* Taxation, debt and public finance;
* Migrations;
* Trade and transportation;
* [[Culture]];
* Transnational Corporations;
* Children;
* Alternative economies.

Template:Actionnable themes

2008-08-26T09:14:30Z

Lorraine:

{{XLanguage|en=Actionnable themes EN|fr=Actionnable themes FR|es=Actionnable themes ES|de=Actionnable themes DE|pt=Actionnable themes PT}}
<To be developed-work in progress>
* [[Ethics]];
* [[Framework for International Trade]];
* Political institutions and democracy;
* Peace and war;
* Housing and human habitat;
* Gender issues and women's struggles;
* Dignity, human being diversity, discriminations;
* Human rights;
* Youth;
* Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform;
* Labor and workers;
* Education;
* Environment and energy;
* Health;
* Knowledge, information and communication;
* Taxation, debt and public finance;
* Migrations;
* Trade and transportation;
* [[Culture]];
* Transnational Corporations;
* Children;
* Alternative economies.

Ethics EN

2008-08-25T19:00:06Z

Lorraine:

Humanity, faced with a fragile environment and an uncertain future, must act collectively according to principles of responsibility.

These principles must extend to the earth's biosphere and to the distant horizon of future generations to guide our decisions on present actions, in the field of politics.

Listening to the silent appeal emitted by the whole living world, where it sees its integrity threatened, we hereby formulate these principles:

• Consider vulnerable nature a good entrusted to you

• Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine
human life

As we do not know the ultimate, cumulative and irreversible effects of our technological successes, we formulate the following principle:

'''.''' Ensure that your power to do does not exceed your power to foresee, to evaluate and to judge

In short: (ref. Hans Jonas): the '''imperative of responsibility'''

Framework for the International Trade EN

2008-08-25T15:17:27Z

Lorraine:

Trade, which is one facet of human activity, must obey the imperative of responsibility.

Nowadays, trade is practised within an international community already endowed with numerous institutions: the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Office (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)………

�The World Trade Organization (WTO) has great power on trade matters. Yet it was not created by the UN, it does not cooperate with the ILO, and takes little interest in the social and environmental consequences of its decisions. Anyway, it is the place where trade disputes with short-term perspectives are played out.

If the WTO is so seriously defaulting on its imperative of responsibility, it is up to us, here, to put international trade back in its proper place, to integrate it into the hierarchy of norms and regulations, to assign it its framework and its mandate.

Help:Help needed

2008-08-25T14:58:38Z

Lorraine:

This Wiki was presented at Attac Europe gathering in Saarebrucken, on August 1-6, 2008.

The considerable potential was acknowledged.

Now we are starting building the Community, establishing cooperation rules, organizing the contents.

We are looking for contributors, translators, administrators, moderators.
It is wonderful if proficient people can share their knowledge or practice on the Wiki mode editing.

List of contributors

2008-08-13T14:04:27Z

Lorraine:

Put your name and country

* [[User:Sayno | Sayno]], [[Belgium]], member of ATTAC - Brussels

* [[User:Joelle | Joelle]], [[Belgium]], member of ATTAC - Brussels

* [[User:Gilles | Gilles]], [[France]], member of ATTAC - France

* [[User:Woods | Woods]], [[Germany]], member of ATTAC - Germany

* [[User:Lorraine | Lorraine]], [[Italy]]