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Rights of Children, Youth and Women

Our current economic activity and productivity is threatening the natural world on which we all depend. By reducing biodiversity and climate stability, we are not only endangering our quality of life but our very existence as well as our equity and dignity.

We need to change our relationships – with ourselves, with each other and with our planet – to ensure a sustainable, fairer and more inclusive future that facilitates social equity and dignity. We have a responsibility to consider the consequences of our daily actions upon future generations. Ensuring their protection and representation when decisions affecting them are taken can overcome the ruling short-termism and help us re-connect with our Earth.

A world of equity and dignity can only be realised by tackling the connected challenges of safeguarding human rights and security, ecological integrity, social equity and peaceful relations. Together, we can create a sustainable world, which is equitable and peaceful, by ensuring that our solutions address the root causes of threats to our shared future.

Rights of Children

Since 2014 our programme has been working to ensure that the rights of girls and boys are upheld and supported so that they may reach their full potential.

End Impunity for Crimes against Future Generations

Actions to be outlawed which could cause widespread, long-term and irreversible damage to the natural or human environment, including the conditions for the survival of an entire species, sub-species or ecosystem, or those which could gravely or irreparably imperil the health, means of survival or safety of a given human population.

Guardians for Future Generations

Ombudspersons, or Guardians for Future Generations, to be established at all governance levels in order to ensure that the interests of future generations are taken into account when political decisions affecting them are made.

Persons with Disabilities

Our work on the rights of persons with disabilities focuses on the global research and promotion of policy solutions, which contribute to better living conditions of persons with disabilities.

Youth Empowerment

With more than 1.8 billion people between the ages of 15 and 35 worldwide – a quarter of the global population – we have the largest generation of young persons the world has ever known. Already today, youth make up 37% of the global working-age population, but account for 60% of the total unemployed. Youth empowerment and harnessing this demographic dividend (growing size of the working-age population) is the key for countries to thrive in a way that recognizes the needs of future generations.

Ending Violence against Women and Girls

One in three women worldwide suffers some form of violence in her lifetime. By restricting women’s choices and limiting their ability to act, the persistence of violence against women has serious consequences for peace and security, economic development and poverty reduction. Thus, it hampers all efforts towards a future just society.

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