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STATEMENT ON GLOBAL AND DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGN INSTITUTIONS


        Basic text of the global coalition/global campaign “World
Democracy 2010” launched on Friday 14 May 1999 at the Hague
Appeal for Peace Conference.

Goal:   the creation of global and democratic sovereign
institutions

Whereas global problems demand global solutions,

whereas to be implemented successfully, these global
solutions will need to be
                supported by the people of the world, and

whereas such implementation requires the democratic
expression of the will
                of the people (art. 21(3) of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights)

Therefore       we need global and democratic sovereign
institutions to legislate,
                implement and adjudicate such solutions.

        The people of the world shall decide the extent of the
powers of these institutions and their inter-relationship
with other levels of powers.


 Basic principles

        While we are aware there are various ways to build such
institutions, we nevertheless agree on the following set of
basic design principles:

1. Innate sovereignty of individuals

2. Sovereignty of the people expressed through direct or
representative democracy

3. Rule of law

4. Solving problems at the most local level practicable
(Subsidiarity Principle)

5. Institutional and procedural transparency to create and
maintain trust

6. Use of peaceful means to build such institutions

7. Non-discrimination (article 2 of Universal Declaration of
Human Rights)

        We appeal to all people of good will to make this goal and
these basic principles known and to act within their
possibilities to support them.

Note:  these principles are indivisible and should be
considered as one unit, not separately.


 Some signatories of the Common Statement on Global and
Democratic Sovereign Institutions
Signataires de la Déclaration sur les institutions mondiales
démocratiques et souveraines
date:  1 Novembre 1999

Prof. Théodore Monod, Biologist, French Academy of Science*
Fédération Mondiale des Cités Unies/United Town Organisation
France-Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
Helen Corbett, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, BUSCO
International Network of Engineer and Scientists for Global
Responsibility
Transparency International
Womens Environment and Development Organisation
International Lesbian and Gay Association
Global Youth Connect
Commandant Laurent de Vilmorin, French Navy (Ret.)
Yves de Bretagne
Abbé Pierre, Founder, Emmaüs International*
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop*
Jerry Bourgeois, President, Int. Liaison Center for a World
Environmental Authority (CILAME)
Billie Mbaye, President, ICARE International
(France/Sénégal)*
Pierre Calame, Executive Director, Fondation Charles Léopold
Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme (Switzerland)
Sunita Gandhi, President, Council on Global Education
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation*
Elizabeth Dowdeswell, former Executive Director, UNEP, former
Under-Secretary-General (Canada)*
Hafsat Abiola, Founder, Kudirat Institute for Democracy
(Nigeria)*
Beso (the artist) (Georgian Republic)
Anil Agarwal, President, Centre for Science and Environment
(India)
Partha Sarathy, President, WWF India
Doug Everingham, former Minister of Health, Australia, former
Vice-President, World Health Organisation Assembly*
Professor Andrew Strauss (U.S.A.)
Professor Keith Spalding (U.K.)
Professor Klaus Schlichtmann (Germany/Japan)
Professor John Roberts (U.K.)
Titus Alexander, Chairman, UNA Westminster*
V. Muthukumar, Chairman, Asian Youth Centre, Dep. Dir.,
Centre for Alternative Energy & Rural Technology (India)
N. R. Bheda, Secretary, Human Settlement, Environment & Youth
Centre (India)
Reena Uprety, President, Free Student Union (Nepal)
Prof. Dambar Bir Thapa, Sec Gnal, UN Association of Nepal and
Sec Gnal, Nepal Nonaligned Movement Association
Deone McCormick, co-Chair, World Federalist Association Youth
Caucus*
Robert Wheeler, Chair, Millennium People's Assembly Network
Garry Davis, founder, World Service Authority*
Marcello Palazzi, President, Progressio Foundation
Nurul Islam, Sec. General, Human Rights and Welfare
Mobilization Forum (Bangladesh)
Dr. Parris Chang, member of parliament (Taiwan)*
Prof. Lung-Chu Chen,Vice-President, International League of
Human Rights*
Hari P. Acharya, Secretary, Youth Organization of Bhutan,
Bhutan*
Elizabeth Ortiz, Bridge over Troubled Water (USA)*
World Federalist Association (USA)
WFM-Germany (World Federalists of Germany)
Weltbürgervereinigung (World Citizens of Germany)
WeltbürgerInnen (World Citizens of Switzerland)
American Movement for World Government
Taiwan Institute for Political Ecology and Strategic Studies
Association to Unite the Democracies
Lucile Green, co-founder, Action Coalition for Global Change,
first President, World Citizens' Assembly*
Sisters of the Good Sheperd
Support Center for Associations and Foundations
(SCAF-Belarus)
Institute for Planetary Studies
Rotary Club of Taipei, Taiwan

*in personal capacity



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Troy Davis, President
World Citizen Foundation/Fondation des Citoyens du Monde
Secretary, Global Coalition "World Democracy 2010"
Secrétaire, Coalition "Démocratie Mondiale 2010"
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