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Statement Presented at the Square of Statement

Towards Global Solidarities to Build People’s Power

In our current era, we are confronted with a dystopian reality where various crises vie for attention, threatening to plunge humanity into catastrophic circumstances of global proportions. Climate change, driven by excessive extraction and pollution, has begun to ravage communities worldwide, with little indication of a unified global response. Moreover, inequality and social exclusion have reached unprecedented levels, with the wealthiest 10% controlling over half of global income while the poorest half struggles with a mere fraction. This disparity is not merely a by-product of economic growth but a direct consequence of regressive tax policies adopted since the 1980s, leading to societal division and xenophobia.

Despite advancements in science and technology offering the potential to eradicate hunger and disease, corporate interests often exploit these developments, exacerbating societal divides. Conflict persists in regions like West Asia, North Africa, and Ukraine, fuelled by substantial military expenditures that prioritize war machinery over societal needs, sometimes even targeting peaceful protests.

Today, amidst ongoing global unrest, the call for a ceasefire in Gaza stands as a beacon of hope, symbolizing a collective desire for a decolonized world grounded in love and justice. Initiatives like South Africa's petition to the International Court of Justice reflect growing international support for peace efforts. These movements underscore the power of grassroots activism in driving social change, from advancing democracy and workers' rights to challenging colonialism and environmental degradation.Top of Form

Creating social change toward a fairer, more equitable, and sustainable world necessitates collective actions driven by vulnerable communities and groups, aiming for profound structural transformations. We need to create alliances for deeper engagement among social movements advocating for peace, justice, and universal well-being, aiming to tackle global inequalities. There is a need to enhance existing initiatives empowering marginalized individuals, fostering stronger connections with people's organizations and social movements advocating for social and ecological justice.

Global solidarity and social movements have played pivotal roles in advancing peace, justice, and rights for workers, women, indigenous peoples, and the environment. To address increasingly complex challenges transcending borders, there's an urgent need for enhanced global solidarity and interconnected networks of social movements.

Building a just future requires reimagining social movements and addressing systemic inequalities perpetuating suffering among the most vulnerable populations. This entails collective efforts to dismantle structural barriers and foster collaborative approaches to economic, social, and ecological challenges. For this, globally social movements are giving a call for the following:

• A revived international community led by the global south to ensure a lasting world peace with the immediate ceasefire in Gaza and working for a just and peaceful future where the Palestine state exists as an independent autonomous country.
• Decolonising the international refugee conventions in order to promote shared responsibility among states of the global north and south, and recognising new forms of persecution due to economic, environmental, climate change factors or sexual orientation.
• Recognising the dangers of political religion and stopping all forms of discrimination of people based on religion, race, caste, ethnicity and other identities.
• Farmers, pastoralists and indigenous communities’ right to land, forest and ecological commons be respected, and all landless farmers should be given land on priority.
• Ensuring that the rights of workers across the world for dignified wages and universal social protection be implemented and respected.
• Ending patriarchal traditions and violence against women by advancing women’s rights, specially their right to land and resources, right to work, right to education and right to autonomy.
• Ensuring that people across the globe have their right to housing and proper shelter respected, and an immediate stoppage on evictions without just rehabilitation be implemented.
• Institutionalising legal mechanisms to recognise, celebrate and protect those defending human rights across the globe.

A better world is possible, and global social movements can help build it!

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