What are general principles of Nairobi declaration?
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We, the social movement leaders and members of organizations from all corners of the world working on economic, social and cultural rights, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, from December 1-5, in the context of the 2nd International Strategy Meeting on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the 2ndESCR-Net General Assembly,
We reaffirm the points and principles embodied in the Lanna Declaration agreed upon in the Inaugural Conference and 1st General Assembly of ESCR Net in Chaing Mai, Thailand in 2003. In addition we pronounce the following points.
The basic foundations for peoples' survival, livelihoods and well-being-the land, waters, forests and natural ecosystems -are under severe threat from a global economic system of unrelenting consumption and greed. This has resulted in human life changing in an accelerated fashion, with the imposition of a model of exaggerated consumerism. Governments have looked greedily at the markets for "bio-fuels," and created subsidies and tax-free provisions for this "attractive business" putting at risk our bio-diversity, food security, earth, water, and culture. These inter-linked social, economic, environmental and climate crisis pose unprecedented challenges for humanity.
Concerned by rapid depletion of the earth's natural resources; lack of control of these resources by communities living in or using the impacted areas; growing dispossession of land; widespread forced evictions; lack of access to adequate housing; insecurity of land tenure; rising food prices and threats to food security; global warming; environmental degradation and risks to biodiversity; lack of prospects for livelihood opportunities; lack of access to basic services including water, sanitation, access to health care.