A/HRC/24/38 peoples and communities of the earth, in the plurality of each of their members, organizations and social movements, have the right to political systems of direct or delegated participation with a revocable mandate. Regional governments and international organizations, particularly the United Nations, must be constructed on democratic principles. The same is true for all institutions that represent specific interests or business sectors, such as industrial companies, estates, financial or commercial organisms, political parties, religious institutions or trade unions, NGOs, sports or cultural groups, humanitarian organizations. All dictatorial or authoritarian forms of exercising political or economic power, where no representative minorities, formal or informal, monopolize decisions without participation, initiative or popular control, are inconsistent with the Common Good of Humanity and are therefore prohibited. Also prohibited are public subsidies for organizations, social movements, political parties or religious institutions that do not respect democratic principles or that practice gender or racial discrimination. X. Paris Appeal for a New Democratic International Economic Order, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, 25 May 2013 (excerpts)10 We, democratic lawyers, recognize the United Nations Charter along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Conventions on Human Rights constitute the Constitution of the modern world. These important documents prohibit the threat of and use of force, recognize the sovereign equality of states and the right of self-determination, and guarantee that everyone has the right to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized. The United Nations Charter in its Preamble replaced the old vertical logic of power over peoples by horizontally organizing power of the peoples based on the exercise of and respect for self-determination and their exclusive mastery over their own affairs in equality and universality. However, the economic management of the world has been “entrusted” by the Bretton Woods agreements to international financial institutions, but these institutions are based on the old vertical logic of power over the peoples that do not comply with the principal of equality and universality. This has allowed the peoples of the world to be diverted from their mission as States with the economic power of these institutions being used as instruments of domination and policing in their own self-interest and the interest of large economies. Peoples’ power requires not only the first generation of civil and political rights but also the second generation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Peoples’ Power cannot be complete without economic power. The conclusion from the experience of decolonization necessitated the adoption of the United Nations Resolution of 1971 proclaiming peoples’ sovereignty over their natural resources. However, it became clear that even with such resolutions peoples remain dependent because of the so-called “laws” of the market with its domination by industrial and financial monopolies, continue undermine the Human Rights Covenants and raise public debt. We have been denouncing for decades not only the injustice and illegitimacy of the public debt of developing countries but also its illegality and nullity. 10 http://www.iadllaw.org/ 37