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Historical Background and World Citizens Registry Goals
It is often normal for people to feel as citizens of the world. However accepting world citizenship would mean that the world has become a democratic, political entity that would justify this choice
At the end of World War II, many people felt the need for a supra-national power and hoped that the UN would be built on this concept.
Unfortunately the UN were built on an inter-national basis and had to face a lack of power : more than 200 international conflicts that could not be avoided: hundreds of millions of people lost their lives in inhuman conditions : war, but also hunger, malnutrition and diseases that could have been avoided. Can also be added the waste of raw material ( war efforts and economy based on competition ) as well as dangerous pollution of humanity’s common spaces: the sea, the ocean floor, the air and many other problems . The international agreements can be denied anytime by the country that has signed it and present no guaranty of enforcement
Faced with the powerlessness of the UN that could be foreseen already when the UN chart was accepted, a human front of World citizens was organized in 1945.
In 1948 there was an extraordinary appeal from the world citizens for supra-national world institutions ; near to 1 million people declared themselves world citizens .
In 1949 the World Citizen Registry was created which role is to number those who on the planet declare themselves world citizen and wish to reach this new level of planetary democracy.
This is still the current objective of the WCR. The Registry has from 1963 until now worked at the elaboration of world electoral lists for the Peoples Congress.
The Peoples Congress started in 1969 but the means that it has are insufficient to accomplish its huge tasks. The Peoples Congress during his annual sessions and also through mail has published several world declarations (They will soon be on our web site ) And also has created 4 organizations :
- The Institute for "mundialists" studies (IEM)
- The world Press Agency (AMIP)
- The World Community against Hunger (WCH)
- The Consultative Assembly at Peoples Congress (ASCOP)
Since 1949 we have registered 150.000 world citizens in 111 countries.
Each registered world citizen remains independent and free in his thoughts ,his fellowships or engagements. Registering as a world citizen is not being part of a movement, it is just showing one’s identity and make it his or her political choice. Registered world citizens have freely engaged in several actions : ecology, trans-national solidarity, interdependent economy, distribution economy, pacifism, non violence, human rights, health without borders, education. For all this people the actions taken will be a way to live day by day their world citizenship, keeping in mind their end goal which is to reach world democracy and to substitute it to world capitalism. In clear they want "globalization" of democracy to answer the vagaries of the already existing globalisation of the economy
The Registry headquarters are in Paris, 66 Boulevard Vincent Auriol (75013 Paris) However the administration is located in St Aubin de Luigne (49190). The WCR opens Registry Centers or appoints Correspondents in numerous countries .The list of the 43 centers or correspondents can be found on the web site .
Daniel Durand
RCM, 66 bd Vincent Auriol, 75013 PARIS