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"Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) hosted an online Global People’s
Assembly from 21 to 23 September 2021, in parallel to a high-level segment of
the UN General Assembly in New York.
The final declaration highlights the interests of the most disadvantaged groups
in societies worldwide who “resist being left behind”, especially in light of
the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it has created and exacerbated.
In a section on UN reform the declaration calls on UN member states to support
“the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly, a UN World Citizens’ Initiative
and the office of a high-level UN Civil Society Envoy”, demands put forward by
Democracy Without Borders and other organisations. While the document
“welcomes” the UN Secretary-General’s recent report titled “Our Common Agenda”,
it thus goes beyond its scope and points out that “gaps remain”. It is
emphasized that “the state-centric model of governance inevitably leads to the
crisis we see today.”
As the opening preamble of the declaration points out, the document was adopted
“in order to promote a more equanimous union of Peoples and Nations, one of
solidarity and respect for every person’s human rights,to protect the planet
from environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change,to eliminate
poverty and inequalities, and emerge from this pandemic into a just, equitable,
resilient and sustainable world.”
The document calls “on those who have left us behind to listen and act for
their sake, as well as ours, because we are one global community.”
The preamble further notes the delegates’ view that “even as we are
systematically marginalised, exploited and persecuted, we are not victims”,
stating that “we are innovative and we have solutions for the systemic and
structural disadvantages experienced primarily by women and girls, indigenous
peoples, as well as individuals marginalized for their age, sexual preferences,
belief systems, work or descent.”"
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