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Introduction of Dulce María CRUZ HERRERA
Dulce Maria CRUZ HERRERA
Friday, November 29, 2002 5:52 PM
Hello to the participants of the world parliament in gestation,
My name is Dulce María Cruz Herrera, I am citizen of Cuba, 31 years old, and
I reside in Montréal, Québec. I am lawyer and jurist specialized in
international law. I am entitled of a master in international law, in the
university of Québec in Montréal and I am candidate to a doctorate in
international law, in the university Laval, in the city of Québec. I have a
strong interest in participating in this electronic forum, where fundamental
values and questions are discussed, concerning the development and
well-being of the world where we are living. However, I have noticed that
many of the participants of this platform seek to change the structure of
the world, maintaining the same flow and ambiguous discourse about the
mechanisms that ideally should be placed in order to materialize a world
parliament that would be in definitive one of the components of the new
world structure, whose power would repose in the citizens of the world and
no more in the States.
A real disagreement exists among the ethical values reflected in the
international juridical texts, such as the solidarity, equality, justness,
or protection of the economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights,
etc., and the existent reality, for example, in most of the countries in
development, particularly, the countries of the sub-Saharan Africa. My
concern resides in the fact that those same values regulated in the
international texts continue of being applied on an utopian, idealistic
base, instead of being placed effective mechanisms for its total
application, in the framework of the new world architecture, ruled by men
and women and not by the States.
On the other hand, How to assure that this new world parliament - in full
gestation - is not going to repeat the same errors made by the States if the
representation of the poorest citizens in the world is small, i.e.
absolutely absent? Although we are able to establish a world parliament, it
will be impossible to solve the humanity's essential problems at the moment,
in the context of the globalization, if we don't fix before the problem of
the representation or access of the poorest to the international forums of
discussion.
This doesn't means to criticize the international texts. Just the opposite.
In just half a century, the international community has been able to
universalize (on the theoretical and ethical aspects) the necessity and
importance of the relationship among peace, human rights, democracy and
socio-economic development. Nevertheless, this relationship is totally
utopian, if we see the deterioration of the conditions of life of millions
of inhabitants of the planet, who are living in the poor countries.
To sum up, I hope the exchange of ideas is going to be intense and fruitful
and I also hope to be able to participate in a more active way in the next
workshops, considering my time for it, that is a bit restricted.
Dulce María Cruz Herrera
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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