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Human Rights
Virtually every United Nations body and specialized NGO
agency is involved to some degree in the protection of
human rights. One of the great achievements of the United
Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human
rights law, which, for the first time in history, provides
us with a universal and internationally protected code of
human rights, one to which all nations can subscribe and
to which all people can aspire.
Not only has the Organization painstakingly defined a
broad range of internationally accepted rights —
including economic, social and cultural, as well as
political and civil rights; it has also established
mechanisms with which to promote and protect these rights
and to assist governments in carrying out their
responsibilities. The International Parliament fully
endorses and enhances the policies of the United
Nations as we accept the good will displayed there.
However, in daily actions there is a way to promote
world-peace in more than just in paper work!
See here an Article
written by Senator Dr. T. Pereira:
The
International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP)
was founded December 15, 1975 by a letter of the
Constitution of the International Legislative Assembly. It
was juridically recognized by the International Law and
the first nations to recognize it were the United States
and Italy. It is parallel to the United Nations and, like
the United Nations, has representative embassadors from
all nations. The headquarters of the ISPSP is in Italy.
The Lord President of the Parliament is the Archbishop
Viktor Busa, President of the Council of the States. The
International First Vice President of the ISPSP is Dr.
Hugo Chavez Frias, President of the Republic of Venezuela.
Mgr. Viktor Busa is an activist devoted to the cause of
peace, defense of life, and human rights. He has been in
the struggle for the cause for 25 years without a break,
since the creation of the ISPSP. His visionary dream for
peace in the world and respect for human beings makes his
life really remarkable. Two years after the creation of
the ISPSP, his partner and co-founder of the ISPSP and its
first General Secretary, Monsignor Makarios III, died.
Mgr. Viktor Busa went ahead alone, as the chair of the
ISPSP, until Dr. Sypros Kyprianou (then new President of
the Republic of Cipro) was elected Vice President
International of lSPSP. Working together with his new
partner, he created the Assembly of the Parliament, and in
1977, signed a convention with President Rodrigo Carazo,
at the University of Peace of the United Nations, in Costa
Rica.
After looking for the concurrence of all of the nations in
the world, through their representative governments, the
Parliament counts with 400 senators, 800 deputies,
ambassadors and ministers, who contribute, like their
President and General Secretary, with their volunteer work,
to the cause of peace.
The work of the delegates and ministers of the ISPSP
towards peace and enforcement of the respect for life and
human rights includes rendering help and support to all of
the people of the world, observing the right of safety and
peace in alI aspects: moral, political, diplomatic,
cultural, religious, economic and social. This is free to
the governments. ISPSP organizes commissions to send to
the country in need, with the participation of volunteer
ministers and parlamentary diplomats, who travel and work
free of charge in order to resolve conflicts and help to
re-establish security and peace. Following the
re-establishment of safety and peace, Lord Viktor Busa
gives, as incentive, Peace Trophies to the head of the
places or countries where the commission worked.
The work of the agents of the ISPSP is paying off with
good results in many places. Once a year, there is a
congress of the ISPSP, where Delegates present their
reports. Victorious interventions have been worked out and
reported from the Diplomatic Crisis between Turkey and
Chipre; the crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia; between
Iran and Irak, Ecuador and Peru, and the conflict in
Uganda. The ISPSP also has made a contribution of
diplomatic intervention in wars of several countries and
places, as in the Middle East, in the civil war in Sri
Lanka, in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, in
Rwanda, Congo, Angola and Mozambique. There are diplomats
from the ISPSP working in South Africa, Moldavia, Russia
and Chechynia. In support of the United Nations, Lord Busa
and the ISPSP have participated in the Conferences of
Addis, Ababa and Vienna.
As observers, the ISPSP has sent parlamentaries to the
general elections En Congo. The democratization of the
Republic of Congo started in 1990. In this process, Lord
Viktor Busa cooperated with the Congolese government in
order to give the people assurance of security and to
admit the need for immediate peace. ISPSP organized a
local sub-division with several Congolese members of
different categories, notable jurists, high functionaries,
ministries, etc. to negociate peace with agressors from
the borders of DRC. When the aggression intensifed, Lord
Busa himself organized a series of international
conferences, in order to gather international support.
This contributed to the acceleration of the United
Nation's resolution in sending in the "blue helmets"
and in assisting in the reconstruction of the nation.
There are evidences of recognition of the authorities of
several countries, who send to Lord Busa their letters,
memoranda, and other tokens of their gratitude for the
Parliament services.
In 1985, Lord Viktor Busa personally got involved with the
creation of the World Organization of the Indigenous and
Aborigenous Peoples. There are several ministers of the
ISPSP working now at the front of the Andean Movement for
re-culture of the Inca countries. The movement started in
Arequipa, Peru and in Cusco, where several ISPSP volunteer
diplomats are working directly with the Inca natives in
order to achieve a new interpretation of the past history
of Perů, including the Inca past on it.
It is a wonderful
movement with the creation of schools, workshops,
festivals, etc. It is easy to see how volunteer work can
achieve things which governmental paid organizations are
not able to achieve.
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