Budget and fiscal transparency are necessary tools to prevent the hijacking of the international order by the international military-industrial compl… - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

A democratic and equitable international order is inherent in the fundamental human rights that humanity shares. It is achievable, step-by-step, when every country and people act at the local, regional and international levels, aware that such an international order must be based on the United Nations Charter and the human rights treaties, which together make up what we can safely call the Constitution of the modern world.

Surely the Council did not intend to convene an assembly of Cassandras when it established the Special Procedures.

The CELAC Declaration is a positive sign towards the advancement of an international order which can and should be more democratic and equitable, based on the principles of the sovereignty of States and peoples and on international solidarity.