1.30pm to 4.30pm

Second Plenary Session: The Regulation of Global Economy

After 50 years of neoliberal hegemony, the global movement of goods, services and capital supported by countless free trade agreements has resulted in a dense network of efficient yet inadequately regulated interdependencies reaching across the borders of the national states as well as a great deal of challenging overall developments: human rights violations by multinational companies are rarely prosecuted, inexpensive consumption is made possible through exploitation and land grabbing and attempts to regulate the world market involve protectionism and corruption. In the “General Assembly”, the related political questions will be debated and decided on by, among others, displaced farmers, local entrepreneurs and government officials, who are disadvantaged due to Western regulatory procedures, exploited textile workers and victims of torture and violence.

Motion 2.1: Corruption, land grabbing and human rights violations by multinational corporations in collaboration with governments must be prosecuted on an international level. Furthermore, these crimes must be judged in accordance with the local law (constitution) and human rights and be sanctioned accordingly.
Delegates: Feri Irawan (activist against palm oil companies in Indonesia), Kiringai Kamau (Kenyan rural entrepreneur), Khadja Bedati (Sahraouian activist), Lúcio Bellentani (former employee at a VW plant in Brazil), Diogo Costa (Instituto Mises Brasil)

Motion 2.2: The constitutional rights of all peoples and systems involved directly or indirectly in manufacturing and supply chains – whether they are human or non-human – must be ensured at all times. All actors, from workers to producers to retailers to consumers, can be held responsible for the violation of rights within the supply chain.
Delegates: Khushi Kabir (human rights activist from Bangladesh), Zehra Khan (Spokesperson for the survivors of the burnt down factory of Ali Enterprises), Thumeka Magwangqana (South African civil rights activist), Itai Rusike (activist from Zimbabwe), Friederike Schmitz (animal rights activist)

Motion 2.3: Regulation of global economy and global trade must always serve the interests of the economic players and institutions that contribute most efficiently to the prosperity of the region in which the economic activity takes place.
Delegates: Prince Kihangi (expert on raw materials policy in the Congo), Sami Miaari (Liberal economist, Tel Aviv University), Nasir Mansoor (Pakistani trade unionist), Alina Banu (Romanian activist for Roşia Montană), Uwe Kekeritz (Alliance 90/The Greens)

Closing statement: Jo Seoka (Bishop and activist)

5pm to 8pm

Third Plenary Session: Migration and Border Regime

While the borders are becoming increasingly open for European corporations, the barriers for international trade in goods and government debts are being reduced, and the free movement of persons is meant to facilitate the perfect allocation of labor force, safety concerns are causing the formation of new borders. But which institutions are responsible for the safety of mobile people when protection by the national state can no longer be ensured? How can the principle of rights for every human being and the interrelated concept of a “world citizen” be specifically outlined and enshrined? In the “General Assembly”, labor migrants and so-called economic refugees, the disenfranchised border crossers and overextended guards will debate and decide on these issues.

Motion 3.1: Economic integration – from the free trade agreement to the monetary union – must not bring about the loss of the political rights of individual citizens. The governments and international organizations involved in the affiliation must be placed under the control of a transnational democratic authority in which all regions are represented.
Delegates: Christos Giovanopoulos (co-organizer of the protests at Syntagma Square in Athens), Gonzalo Piñan (artist from Spain, economic migrant), Quim Arrufat (Candidatura d’Unitat Popular), Itai Rusike (activist from Zimbabwe), Simon Selle (children and youth Parliament)

Motion 3.2: The fundamental rights of economic migrants and refugees, which include the right to freedom of movement and the free choice of employment, must be ensured on a global scale. Within five years, their fundamental rights must be expanded to include political rights (local and national voting rights) at their place of residence. In the long term, transnational civil rights must be enforced.
Delegates: [fallen ill: Barbara Miranda Caro (activist from Chile)],Mitat Özdemir (Turkish engineer, German migrant worker in the 60’s), Abou Bakar Sidibé (filmmaker, refugee from Mali), Joana Adesuwa Reiterer (activist against human trafficking), Martin Pairet (European Alternatives)

Motion 3.3: The fundamental right to security is binding beyond all borders. The right to protection against any specific or potential danger must be ensured for all people, regardless of their origin, in any territory.
Delegates: Hamze Bytyci (Roma activist), Meera Jamal (journalist from Pakistan), Cezary Gmyz (Polish journalist), Mohamed Taha Sabri (Imam in Neukölln), Jean-Louis Gilissen (lawyer at the ICC, defense attorney)

Closing statement: Ulrike Guérot (Professor for European Policy and Democracy Studies)

1.30pm to 4.30pm

Fifth Plenary Session: Natural Global Commons

For decades, experts have been agreeing on the fact that demographic developments and mass consumption cause uncontrollable ecological dynamics with devastating consequences for numerous peoples and other living creatures. The necessary measures, however, stand in stark contrast to the economic interests of the industrial nations and emerging countries, as well as to the legitimate demands for economic development in the Third World. In the “General Assembly”, the worldwide conflicts regarding natural resources and the right to life and physical integrity will be discussed by the representatives of humans, animals and plants, whose current and future habitats are being destroyed.

Motion 5.1: The destruction of the living environment and habitat of humans, animals and plants must be stopped by enforcing mandatory global regulations and laws, which are determined in democratically legitimate institutions in which the affected parties are represented. The natural or traditional inhabitants must always have priority over any other claim of ownership.
Delegates: Carmen Zambrano (activist from Ecuador), Dieter Gerten (Professor of global change climatology and hydrology), Hilal Sezgin (animal rights activist), Feri Irawan (activist against palm oil companies in Indonesia)

Motion 5.2: The worldwide production of food, consumer goods and energy has to be regulated by the enforcement of globally binding and democratically legitimized sanctions. The mass consumption has to be contained in order to prevent far-reaching damages and uncontainable consequences for the ecosystem and the livelihood.
Appendix: All sentient beings must not be considered and used as resources, means of production or products. Instead, their political interests have to be considered in the decision-making process mentioned above.
Delegates: Kathrin Hartmann (journalist, critic of the Green Economy), Giorgio Fidenato (libertarian farmer and activist), Friederike Schmitz (animal rights activist), Kiringai Kamau (Kenyan rural entrepreneur), Melvin Purzuelo (climate activist from the Philippines)

Motion 5.3: The right to life and physical integrity must apply to all sentient beings. This includes all animals and human beings, regardless of their origin or place of residence, whether they are already born or will be born in the future.
Appendix: The right to life and physical integrity must apply to all humans and animals that are already born. Relating to the unborn sentient beings, the right not to be born has to prevail all other rights. It has to be ensured by the unconditional access to contraception, abortion and sterilization.
Delegates: [fallen ill: Kamel Mohanna, (Lebanese doctor and human rights activist)], Sebastian Urbanski (actor with Down syndrome), Cornelia Kaminski (federal association for the right to live), Théophile De Giraud (antinatalist), Colin Goldner (Great Ape Project)

Closing statement: Anu Muhammad (economist)

5pm to 7pm

Closing Session

In the closing session, the political observers will summarize the main political demands and resolved directives, which resulted from the representatives’ debates during the five plenary sessions, and outline the “Charter for the 21st Century”.

Speakers: Milo Rau (director, author and initiator of the „General Assembly“), Wolfgang Kaleck (human rights attorney, founder of the ECCHR) & Nasir Mansoor (Pakistani trade unionist), Anu Muhammad (professor of economics), Jo Seoka (Bishop and activist), Chantal Mouffe (professor of political theory), Mathias Stein (member of the German Parliament, SPD), Mely Kiyak (columnist and author), Robert Misik (Journalist, political writer), Raul Zelik (writer, journalist and political scientist)