Lille, December 2001: the text of a Charter for Human responsibilities is presented to 400 citizens from 120 countries and 25 social and professional backgrounds during the closing ceremony of the World Assembly organised by the Alliance for a Plural, Responsible and United World. Ethics, individual and collective responsibility, dignity, sustainable peace and common good are at the root of (...)

Objectives and strategies - 20 de abril de 2005

The Charter of Responsibilities must enable civil society to develop its own capacity for organisational and institutional empowerment and change stereotypes of political action that have existed up until now. Civil society must, in fact, contribute to the creation of a new type of governance by, for instance, reinforcing mechanisms of control over the communication media and over the (...)

Activities in 2004 and results - 19 de abril de 2005

Initial results of the work 1. The Cauca Valley Women’s Charter of Responsibilities 2. Establishment of a Charter steering group in Cali, called the Initiative Network for a Responsible Citizenship. One of its main objectives is to get together with other social groups and unite through action and reflection over the notion of responsibility. 3. Setting up of a Charter (...)

Increasing awareness, Stimulating Appropriation - 8 de abril de 2005

Educational and social methods

Difficulties - 5 de abril de 2005

The distributed budget. We find ourselves in Colombia in a situation different from that of the other members of the Committee. We, in fact, began the work of disseminating the Charter early, i.e. in July 2003, in response to a call for initiatives and thus received an initial sum to make headway with the work. The debate within the Charter’s Steering Committee over voting methods and budget (...)

Claire LAUNAY - 7 de janeiro de 2005

I am Claire Launay (30 years old, French), I have been working at CINEP (Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular) in Bogotà, Colombia for two years. I am coordinating two projects with my colleague Diego Escobar: disseminating the Charter of Human Responsibilities in 5 regions of Colombia in different social sectors: women, youth, executives, etc. And the creation of a methodological centre (...)

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