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The
Last hope for Humanity's Survival |
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THE
WORLD TODAY |
The world today is
passing through the most difficult phase in human history
when the very survival of humanity, nay, life itself,
is gravely endangered. The threats come not only from
the huge nuclear stockpile of over 36,000 warheads but
also from the alarming rise in pollution levels worldwide
and the ever-widening ecological imbalance. Recently,
a new and probably far deadlier threat has emerged in
the form of international terrorism which is a direct
result of international lawlessness and lack of international
laws which are enforceable in all nations of the world. |
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| NEED OF THE
HOUR |
Now that the United
Nations has admitted its inability to safeguard the
rights of the children for a safe future, and the leaders
of various countries are unwilling or incapable of either
arresting the global stockpiling of weapons of mass
destruction or reversing the massive tide of environmentally
damaging and ecologically destructive activities worldwide,
the need of the hour clearly is for an international
law-making body, a World Parliament, whose enactments
would be universally applicable to all countries and
peoples of the world. However, world leaders have already
demonstrated their lack of statesmanship which was clearly
evident at the UN's Millennium Summit, held from 6th
to 8th September 2000 in New York, where — even
though the agenda included discussions on 'a new international
economic and political order' — the biggest gathering
of Heads of State and Heads of Government failed to
come to any conclusion. All of them were singularly
preoccupied with the affairs of their own countries
and the issues confronting their own regions and neighbours.
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| WORLD JUDICIARY
— HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE |
On behalf of over 30,000
CMS students representing the world’s two billion
children, Mr Gandhi wrote many letters to Dr Kofi Annan,
Secretary - General of the UN requesting that children’s
right to a safe future be recognised and included in
the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
The Secretary-General chose to reply (vide letter dated
16th July 2001) to only one letter of Mr Gandhi (dated
29th June 2001) in which Mr. Gandhi had congratulated
the Secretary-General on his reappointment. Even then,
Dr Annan only thanked Mr Gandhi for his compliments
and made no mention of Mr Gandhi’s request on
behalf of the world’s children. Clearly, the United
Nations is neither ready to grant nor deny this right
to the children! |
Having
failed to find justice elsewhere, CMS had the option
of either keeping silent or of taking the children’s
case to the world judiciary. Having appointed itself
as the custodian of the welfare of the world’s
children, born and yet-to-be-born, CMS could not keep
silent and decided to approach the Chief Justices of
the World and solicit their support in favour of the
children’s cause. The children’s last hope
now rests with the world judiciary, for Judges are the
only ones who are trusted and respected by all —
the masses as well as the classes. As the conscience
keepers of mankind and as the custodians of the welfare
of humanity's silent masses, it is the moral duty of
the world’s judiciary to come out of their Courts
and to deliver a public judgement on the urgent issues
of global governance. A wonderful opportunity awaits
them to demonstrate their support and to lend the weight
of their office and their wisdom to the cause of world
unity and world peace during the meeting of the International
Judicial fraternity at the 5th International Conference
of the Chief Justices of the World on Article 51(c)
of the Constitution of India to be held in Lucknow,
India, from 10th to 12th December, 2004. |
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The voice of a united
World Judiciary cannot be ignored and shall have to
be heard and obeyed by all. Therefore, the judges of
the world must unite for the sake of humanity's survival,
for the sake of the world's two billion children and
for the sake of justice for all. If the Judiciary fails
to grasp this historic opportunity, then nothing can
save the world from total annihilation in a third, the
most brutal of all world wars. |
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