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speculating on food, housing, health, education, communication as is corruption while
exercising these rights.
Article 10 (To generalize democracy and the construction of the subject)
All peoples and human beings are subjects of their histories and have the right to a
collective social and political organization that guarantees this. This organization must
ensure harmony with nature and access to the material needs of life trough production and
circulation systems built on social justice principles. To achieve these goals, collective
organization should allow everyone’s participation in the production and reproduction of
the life of the planet and human beings, i.e., of the Common Good of Humanity. The
organizing principle of this goal is to spread democracy into all social relationships: family,
gender, work, political authority, between peoples and nations and in all social, political,
economic, cultural and religious institutions. Along with political forms of participatory
democracy, participation should be organized in all sectors of common life, economic,
social, cultural.
All non-democratic forms of organizing society’s political, economic, social and cultural
life are inconsistent with the Common Good of Humanity and the Good Life (Buen Vivir)
and are therefore prohibited. Genocides are condemned as irreparable acts of
discrimination. Susceptible to sanctions are all discriminations based on gender, race,
nation, culture, sexual orientation, physical or mental capacity, religion or ideological
affiliation. Along with political forms of participatory democracy, participation should be
encouraged in all sectors of common life.
Article 11 (To build equality between men and women)
Particular importance will be given to relations between men and women, unequal since
time immemorial in the various types of societies that have existed during human history.
All institutions and all social and cultural systems should recognize, respect and promote
the right to a life in plenitude for women in equality with men. Social and economic
practices, institutions and cultural or religious systems that defend discrimination or
actively discriminate against women are inconsistent with the Common Good of Humanity.
All forms of masculine domination, particularly differences in wage income and the nonrecognition of family domestic work linked to the reproduction of life, are susceptible to
sanctions.
Article 12 (To prohibit war)
Democratic international relations do not allow the use of war to resolve conflicts. In this
day and age, peace is not guaranteed by an arms race. The availability of nuclear,
biological, chemical weapons directly jeopardizes the life of Humanity. Arms have become
a business. Their production causes an enormous waste of energy, natural resources and
human talents; their use means, aside from the loss of lifes, serious environmental
destruction.
The manufacture, possession and use of weapons of mass destruction, the accumulation of
conventional weapons to guarantee regional hegemony and control of natural resources,
hegemonic regional pacts, military solutions to solve internal political problems are
inconsistent with the Common Good of Humanity and are therefore prohibited.
Article 13 (To build the State on the basis of Common Good)
The role of the State, as collective administrator, is to guarantee the Common Good, i.e. the
public interest, as compared to individual or private interests. Democratic participation is
therefore needed to define the Common Good (constitutions) and how it will be applied. All
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