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A
CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH
Article
13 - Directive Principles for the World Government
It shall
be the aim of the World Government to secure certain other
rights for all inhabitants within the Federation of Earth,
but without immediate guarantee of universal achievement and
enforcement. These rightst are defined as Directive Principles,
obligating the World Government to pursue every reasonable
means for universal realization and implementation, and shall
include the following:
- Equal
opportunity for useful employment for everyone, with wages
or remuneration sufficient to assure human dignity.
- Freedom
of choice in work, occupation, employment or profession.
- Full
access to information and to the accumulated knowledge of
the human race.
- Free
and adequate public education available to everyone, extending
to the pre-university level; Equal opportunities for elementary
and higher education for all persons; equal opportunity
for continued education for all persons throughout life;
the ri ght of any person or parent to choose a private educational
institution at any time.
- Free
and adequate public health services and medical care available
to everyone throughout life under conditions of free choice.
- Equal
opportunity for leisure time for everyone; better distribution
of the work load of society so that every person may have
equitable leisure time opportunities.
- Equal
opportunity for everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific
and technological discoveries and developments.
- Protection
for everyone against the hazards and perils of technological
innovations and developments.
- Protection
of the natural environment which is the common heritage
of humanity against pollution, ecological disruption or
damage which could imperil life or lower the quality of
life.
- Conservation
of those natural resources of Earth which are limited so
that present and future generations may continue to enjoy
life on the planet Earth.
- Assurance
for everyone of adequate housing, of adequate and nutritious
food supplies, of safe and adequate water supplies, of pure
air with protection of oxygen supplies and the ozone layer,
and in general for the continuance of an environment which
c an sustain healthy living for all.
- Assure
to each child the right to the full realization of his or
her potential.
- Social
Security for everyone to relieve the hazards of unemployment,
sickness, old age, family circumstances, disability, catastrophies
of nature, and technological change, and to allow retirement
with sufficient lifetime income for living under condi tions
of human dignity during older age.
- Rapid
elimination of and prohibitions against technological hazards
and man-made environmental disturbances which are found
to create dangers to life on Earth.
- Implementation
of intensive programs to discover, develop and institute
safe alternatives and practical substitutions for technologies
which must be eliminated and prohibited because of hazards
and dangers to life.
- Encouragement
for cultural diversity; encouragement for decentralized
administration.
- Freedom
for peaceful self-determination for minorities, refugees
and dissenters.
- Freedom
for change of residence to anywhere on Earth conditioned
by provisions for temporary sanctuaries in events of large
numbers of refugees, stateless persons, or mass migrations.
- Prohibition
against the death penalty.
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