International Alliance of Inhabitants
c/o Unione Inquilini, 2/ter, Bettella street. 35133 Padua. Italy
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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
I. PREAMBLE
We, representatives of the inhabitants’ associations and social movements, communities, tenants, private house owners, homeless, people living in favelas and settlements, cooperatives, indigenous peoples and working class neighbourhoods of different world regions;
Facing the permanent violations of the right to an adequate house and to a liveable city;
In the context of a neo-liberal globalisation, which privatises public services and human rights, increases social segregation, debases and merchandises human relationships;
1. Consider that, in order to protect our right to be cities’ builders and users, cannot confine ourselves to a mere local protection of our claims, while huge real estate investments, the urban infrastructures construction, the ever more public sector fading due to the foreign debt and to the monetary parameters, migrations, and conflicts which destroy the relational fabrics of the cities, jeopardize the security of billions of people and the very survival of the planet.
2. In front of such situation and in order to build and strengthen solidarity relationships, which may both be effective and demonstrate that a different kind of human relationships is possible, have, henceforth, resolved to act in a coordinated manner on a horizontal ground and in mutual cooperation, from the local to the global level.
3. Hence, we bear in mind and bring together previous times, dynamics and initiatives accordingly developed in various locations of the world, and which have produced declarations and formulated principles, which we make our own, and which had an important moment of synthesis and a meeting ground on the occasion of the First Inhabitants’ World Assembly held in Mexico City in the year 2000.
4. We also take into account the principles declared in the International Treaty on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (art.11) and in the Human Rights Universal Declaration (art.25).
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