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> 13th Session: 01 to 26 March,  2010   -  Draft Programme
> 14th Session: 31 May - 18 June, 2010
> 15th Session: 13 September - 01 October ,2010



CSVGC MEETINGS

Next Monthly Meeting:
8th June 2010 - 13:00 to 15:00 - NGO Resources & Service Centre, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

 

PROJECTS FOR 2010


Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights:

Side-event Presentation during the 13th Session of the Human Rights Council - TBC

2009 marked a momentous step forward when at the UN General Assembly, under the Presidency of H.E. M. d'Escoto Brockmann, Resolution 63/278 designated April 22  "International Mother Earth Day" In his speech at the UN that same day President Morales of the Plurinational State of Bolivia called (webcast) for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth while H.E. Pablo Solón presented his speech related to the Draft Resolution that was cosponsored by: Algeria, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mauritius, Nepal, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).


UN document A/C2/64/L24** also 1. Invites Member States, the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, and international, regional and subregional organizations to transmit to the Secretary-General their views on the scope and content of a possible declaration of ethical principles and values for living in harmony with Mother Earth; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to it, at its sixty-fifth session, a report on the views and comments received in relation to the present resolution; 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session an item entitled “Harmony with Mother Earth” for consideration by the Second Committee.

A start on such a Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights was made on October 17, 2009 during the 7th ALBA-TCP Summitt.

 

The Peoples' Sacred Right to Peace

In resolutions A/RES/57/216 of 27 February 2003, A/RES/60/163 of 2 March 2006, and A/RES/63/189 of 18 March 2009, the General Assembly solemnly declared “that the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace and that the preservation and promotion of peace constitutes a fundamental obligation of each State”. Furthermore, the General Assembly, in resolution A/RES/60/163 stressed “that peace is a vital requirement for the promotion and protection of all human rights for all”.

This proposal is to help with the emergence of a NGO Committee on Peace in Geneva and New York in 2010 and to contribute to  the above.