The 16 principles of the Earth Charter
It is our divine duty to protect Mother Earth’s diversity, beauty and vitality and this duty is highlighted in the 16 principles of the Earth Charter.
1) Respect Earth and Life in all its diversity.
2) Care for the community of Life with compassion, understanding and love
3) Build just democratic societies that are peaceful, participatory and sustainable.
4) Secure Earth’s beauty and bounty for posterity.
5) Protect and restore the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems, highlighting biodiversity and nature life sustaining processes.
6) Prevent harm to the environment.
7) Adopt patterns of production, consumption and reproduction that safeguard Earth’s regenerative capacities, human rights and community well being.
8) Advance the study of eco sustainability and promote eco knowledge.
9) Eradicate poverty ( Poverty is sin – Shaw )
10) Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels, promote human development in a sustainable and in an equitable manner.
11) Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.
12) Uphold the rights of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.
13) Strengthen the democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability, in governance, inclusive participation in decision making, and access to justice.
14) Integrate into formal education and life long learning the knowledge, values and skills needed for
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