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Peace Platform
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The Coalition for a Strong United Nations May 16, 2003
II.
ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
Peace will not happen until the extremes of wealth and
poverty in this country and among all countries are addressed.
Because the United States is the richest country and a superpower, we must
continually seek to close the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest
on the planet and in this country, and assure fairness to communities and
inventors. We believe that all economic and fiscal policies must have
human rights and the dignity of the human person at their core and that
citizens should have the opportunity to contribute to the decision-making,
preferably at the local or regional level. The U.S. should:
1. Recognize that building peace is a wiser use of our resources
than expending a large military budget.
2. Work to
reform or replace the Bretton Woods institutions - IMF, World Bank and
World Trade Organization - and place this work directly under the UN
Economic
and Social Council, to coordinate with the UN Development Program, the UN
Environment Program and the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
3. Work to re-establish the UN Center on Transnational Corporations, to set standards of corporate conduct consistent with UN covenants and charters, and monitor and report such conduct to appropriate control agencies and to the general public.
4. Work to ensure the enforcement of trhe core standards of the U.N.'s International Labor Organization (ILO). These include the rights to organize; to bargain collectively; to be hired, paid and promoted without regard to sex or color; and for women to be protected from being fired on account of pregnancy. The standards prohibit forced labor and child labor.
5. Establish forums to rethink intellectual property rules including those of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), to ensure that precursor inventors and developers currently receive a fair share of profits from derivative product patents and copyrights. Exclusive patents and copyrights in the areas of basic nutrition, health, reproduction, basic education, and personal communication are unacceptable, and the U.S. government should work toward world acceptance that genes and organisms should not be patentable.
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