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PRINCIPLES to guide the exercise of human responsibilities
We are all responsible for making sure that Human Rights are reaffirmed in our ways of thinking and in our actions.
- To face the challenges of today and of tomorrow, it is just as important to unite in action as to express cultural diversity.
- Every person's dignity demands that he or she contribute to the freedom and dignity of others.
- Lasting peace cannot be established without a justice which is respectful of human dignity and of human rights.
- To ensure the full flowering of the human personality, its non-material aspirations as well as its material needs must be addressed.
- The exercise of power can only be legitimate if it serves the common good, and if it is monitored by those over whom it is exercised.
- Consumption of natural resources to meet human needs must be integrated in a larger effort of active protection and careful management of the environment.
- The pursuit of prosperity cannot be separated from an equitable sharing of wealth.
- Freedom of scientific research implies accepting that this freedom is limited by ethical criteria.
- The full potential of knowledge and know-how is realised only through sharing them, and through using them in the service of solidarity and the culture of peace.
- In reaching decisions about short-term priorities, the precaution must be taken of evaluating long-term consequences with their risks and uncertainties.
We are all responsible for making sure that Human Rights are reaffirmed in our ways of thinking and in our actions.
- To face the challenges of today and of tomorrow, it is just as important to unite in action as to express cultural diversity.
- Every person's dignity demands that he or she contribute to the freedom and dignity of others.
- Lasting peace cannot be established without a justice which is respectful of human dignity and of human rights.
- To ensure the full flowering of the human personality, its non-material aspirations as well as its material needs must be addressed.
- The exercise of power can only be legitimate if it serves the common good, and if it is monitored by those over whom it is exercised.
- Consumption of natural resources to meet human needs must be integrated in a larger effort of active protection and careful management of the environment.
- The pursuit of prosperity cannot be separated from an equitable sharing of wealth.
- Freedom of scientific research implies accepting that this freedom is limited by ethical criteria.
- The full potential of knowledge and know-how is realised only through sharing them, and through using them in the service of solidarity and the culture of peace.
- In reaching decisions about short-term priorities, the precaution must be taken of evaluating long-term consequences with their risks and uncertainties.