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“Human Rights and 23rd Century Movement” Interview with Marta Benavides
un article par Javier Collado Ruano, Director of Edition at Global Education Magazine
In December 2013, we celebrate the 65º anniversary
of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For this
reason, Global Education Magazine interviews a
special person to commemorate it: Ms. Marta
Benavides. She is an international activist
working on culture of peace, sustainability,
inclusiveness, human rights and women equality.
She was one of the 33 Laureates of the Women´s
World Summit Foundation Prize for Women´s
Creativity in Rural Life in 2003, and she is
currently the Co-Chair at Global Call to Action
Against Poverty (GCAP) which “is about development
of peoples movements to accompany the peoples who
challenge the systems of injustice and
exploitation, and the structures that cannot but
result on impoverishment and lack of peace”.
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In my opinion, world-society should be based on a
new awareness focused on ethics, solidarity and
cooperation as essential values for the common
future of humanity. A humanity which has a complex
pluriculturalism, which is inherited from the same
genetic code: cosmic-biological and cultural-
historical, as we proceed from the same cosmic
post-Big Bang evolution. Consequently, the
existence of human life implies making out a new
collective and transhumanist horizon. Headed for
that horizon, Human Rights are a lighthouse and a
reference point that helps 21st century sailors to
understand the transnational values, autopoietic
life, multidimensional dignity, transcultural
equity, trans humanist solidarity, planetary
coexistence, global peace, complex knowledge, and
cosmic freedom more easily.
For all that reason, we talk in the interview
about the dictatorships of Latin America in the 70
´s, about the conference “Building a Global
Citizens Movement” celebrated in South Africa last
month, about Global Citizenship Education, about
the global panorama of poverty, about the example
of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, about
her dreams for the future, about Declaration of
Human Rights, as well as the Millennium
Development Goals of the United Nations, where she
reflected “the UN plays a most important role in
the discernment of what is going on in the world,
the whys and how of that, and on what can and must
be done to guarantee quality of life for all
present and future generations and for the care of
Mother Earth.”
The full interview can be read here.
[Editor's Note: According to Benavides in the
interview, The “23rd Century Movement for
Sustainable Peace” is a movement to practice
culture of peace, which is based on sustainability
principles, the mindfulness of who we are, and the
power we are.]
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) liée(s) à cet article:
Where in the world can we find good leadership today?,
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Commentaire le plus récent:
Once again, as they have done now each year since 2009, the Nobel Women's Initiative provides biographies of 16 women leaders involved in local action for peace and justice around the world, and in particular to stop violence against women. Last year's biographies were listed in the CPNN discussionboard.
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