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Youth Treaty
Preamble
We, as the undersigned youth (NGOs, social and political movements) gathered in Rio de Janeiro so as to participate in the International Forum of NGOs and Social Movements, the Global Forum, and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), assert our position in protest of the festival of the powerful in RIO 92, which was not interested in offering concrete responses to global problems. We also confirm that youth are indeed the present and future of the planet. We recognize the explicit need to collaborate among ourselves so as to realize our visionary work and to participate within our societies to foment global, social, and environmental change. Uniting our creative and intellectual resources and consolidating the principles elaborated in preparatory process documents, we commit ourselves to the following principles and actions: