DEVELOPMENT 63
Iraqi Kurdistan by Alfredo Cunha
Niger by Alfredo Cunha
Bangladesh image by Alfredo Cunha
It is urgent to establish an effective intercultural
and religious dialogue, to create bridges of
dialogue that lead to knowledge and acceptance
of others in their legitimate diversity.
The Future of Mankind belongs to us. It is up to
us, citizens, if we are determined and perhaps
motivated, to print a decisive qualitative leap
in our collective destiny, making our utopias of
today the realities of tomorrow.
Civil society can, should and must demand and
obtain as soon as possible, an end to poverty, the
great wars and corruption and an effective and
most urgent fight against climate change and its
already frightening consequences! It is urgent and
necessary that the next 15 years may consolidate
and complete the work begun with the Millennium
Development Goals in 2000. This is the last
opportunity to stop the despair and conflict and
ipso facto, the massive migration flows that may
jeopardize the already endangered democracies
in the West, the Middle East and Asia. And we,
responsible and participatory civil society, have
the duty to do everything in our power to make
our voice heard and to make this wish come true
by and for human beings like us!
If we don’t do so, it is the future of humanity
which will soon be in question, 100 to 200
years from now, and we may and should all be
accused of not paying assistance to Humanity in
imminent danger. Q
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