::...City Montessori School, Lucknow, India..:: 6th International Conference of Chief Justices::...

...SUPPORT OF WORLD JUDICIARY CAN HELP CREATE A NEW ONE-WORLD ORDER

Only the support of the World Judiciary can create a favourable climate for the formation of a duly constituted World Parliament empowered to enact Enforceable International laws, a World Government to implement these laws, and a World Judiciary to ensure that the laws are followed.

The very survival of life on our planet is under threat. Whether the unification of humankind will happen after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to the old patterns of behaviour, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will is a choice before all.

CMS students presenting Children’s Appeal to the World Judiciary at the 4th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World

MEANINGFUL EDUCATION IS A POWERFUL INSTRUMENT OF TRANSFORMATION

Danger of a nuclear world war is looming large above our heads. Low intensity civil wars in various parts of the world, ever increasing international terrorism, environmental degradation and economic exploitation by advanced countries are affecting individual lives on all continents. On the one hand, huge resources are being squandered on research, development and manufacture of advanced arms and ammunitions of mass destruction, and on the other hand, a major part of humanity is living in want and hunger, poverty, disease and in insanitary conditions and misery. Children remain without shelter.

They have no access to proper clothing, food and education. They are constantly abused and forced to work as labourers and soldiers in armed conflicts. All this needs to be changed.

EDUCATION MUST ALSO ACT AS A POWERFUL INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

CMS believes that at a certain moment in history, education must also act as a powerful instrument of profound social transformation. And such a moment has come. CMS believes that a modern school must act as a 'Lighthouse of Society' providing meaningful education, spiritual direction and leadership to students, as also spiritual direction and leadership to parents and the society and that education must concern itself with the affairs of the age and endeavour to bring about profound social transformation. CMS believes that in the situation prevailing in the world a situation has arisen when educational institutions must asserts themselves. Therefore, CMS has been striving in this direction. Since children are common denominator because every person loves his/her child, it is their duty also to work for a profound social transformation so that the future of the world's over two billion children may be made safe, happy and prosperous. CMS seeks cooperation from every one to join in its children’s efforts to create worldwide awareness for international peace and security which is possible through regulations of international behaviour, that is, enforceable international laws made by a duly constituted World Parliament and enforced by a world executive, that is, a World Government.

World Unity Convention Centre at the City Montessori School, LDA Colony, Kanpur Road Branch, Lucknow, the venue of the International Conferences of Chief Justices of the World.

PLIGHT OF CHILDREN - A CALL FOR SUPPORT

Children are the common denominator. For parents their child is the most precious possession in the world. No parent can ever bear the thought of any harm coming to their child. Yet, the UN data about the world’s children show many staggering facts:

•	40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and preventable diseases.
•	Each year, at least 250,000 young children lose their sight for lack of a small amount of vitamin A in their diet.
•	In the past ten years, 2 million children died in war, between four and 5 million are handicapped, 12 million have become homeless and one million have lost their parents or are separated from them. Over 300,000 children have been exploited as soldiers, bearers and mine-workers. Twenty-five million children have fled their homes.
•	Over half a million mothers die annually during pregnancy and childbirth.
•	Over 100 million children throughout the world are forced to work under hazardous and often fatal conditions.
•	More than one billion people — the majority of them children — either have no houses or live with inadequate housing.
•	There are more than 10 million child-refugees around the world, comprising 60% to 70% of the refugee population. Malnutrition, chronic infectious diseases, physical and mental retardation are widespread in refugee camps. Many children, often separated from their parents, have spent their whole lives in closed refugee camps, encircled by gun towers and barbed wire.
•	Approximately 150 million children spend their days on the streets. Of them, 60 million are street children whose only home is the street. The youngest street children are only 5 or 6 years old.
•	Nearly 100 million children of the primary school age are not taking part in any education programmes.
•	113 million children never even begin school.
Imagine the plight of these children! What can be done? By whom?
•	The security of the world’s two billion children and generations yet-to-be-born is threatened by ecological disaster, international terrorism and nuclear war. These are truly global threats and no one, in any corner of the world, is safe or secure from these threats.
•	The politicians of the world are busy with national affairs and not with the needs and affairs of this age which are international by nature. Who is going to safeguard the future of the world’s 2 billion children?
•	We at CMS believe that education must concern itself with the affairs of this age. This is why the children of CMS, the world’s largest school, feel that it is their responsibility to raise this issue before the parents and guardians of the world.
•	It is time for all the parents and guardians of the world’s children to not only be conscious of these threats but also to unite as one and come together to safeguard their children’s right to a secure and safe world and a healthy ecology.
•	On behalf of the world’s two billion children and generations yet-un-born, the City Montessori School (CMS) invites all the parents and guardians of the world to arise, awake and unite and demonstrate their support for the CMS students’ call to the world judiciary —the last hope of humanity’s survival— and to help create a world safe for children.

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