On 22 May 2007, TERRAPPA has informed the new French President of our request addressed to Mr. Jacques Chirac whose acknowledgements of receipt were not really encouraging.
On 1 June 2007, TERRAPPA celebrated its first anniversary.
On 1st November 2007, the association is pleased to announce that its documents (blogs on canalblog + TERRAPPA's website) are being read in 76 countries of the 5 continents. Many thanks to anyone who will inform students, friends and acquaintances
TERRAPPA is an autonomous and non-profit association with a
humanitarian vocation. It functions without asking for any financial
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Our association defends the principle that any person belongs to a
particular ancestral land. The anthropo-philosophical facts which
follow show the importance of this principle drawn quite simply from
reality.
If one refers to the general characteristics of the animal kingdom,
one notes that the species usually live and remain on the territory
where they were born. They seldom venture to other places and will
come near cities and villages only if they are compelled to do so in
case of famine or fire.
The elephants, at the time of dying, generally return to the "land
of the ancestors" to die.
The migratory birds return to familiar trees and reliefs.
Who could prove that "mother land" is not the source of all
those natural substances of vegetable and animal origin which feed the
body during the gestation period, and who afterwards, grows
autonomously?
According to one's observations, the goal of all forms of life is the
refinement to eventually become human being, irrespective of the
circumstances in which they originated, and evolved (adaptation to the
environment, transformation of the environment, protection of health,
generation of many descendants, cultivation of the land, exploitation
of soil resources, transmission of knowledge, development of economically
profitable activities). Everyone is supposed to work hard to earn a
living and to affirm himself as an individual.
However, the negative attitude of animal behaviour has always driven the
human individual to have recourse to wars in order to appease his
instinct of power.
This nourishing earth, of which we all are usufructuaries on a basis of
equal rights for all people living on land as well as on the water of
the seas and oceans, suggests our obligation to consume food in a
reasonable, economic and caring manner. Because it will be the
responsibility of our children and of the children of our children to
continue the chain of human generations on this earth, as long as it
will be possible to maintain the quality of life in the open air.
Life on earth appears increasingly fragile, with respect to the
"progress" made in its quality and in all its aspects. Many
people have experienced a compulsory uprooting, economically or
event-driven, which broke all the emotional bonds linking them to their
bearings and essential territories: for example, vestiges of dwellings,
tomb stones, ruins of monuments, engraved or painted inscriptions. Moral
instability and the fear for a darker future can deprive many of these
people of their will to overcome the different obstacles facing them,
let alone being involved in violent activities, to the height of their
despair.
Thus today's society has been belittled appreciably with a high rate of
delinquency, owing to the fact that it has lost the sense of
responsibility which was once taught to children and teenagers in schools.
It has also lost its capacity to secure a brighter and more gratifying
future for all. Governments' action is limited to recommending to
countries involved in wars to minimize the risks of collateral damage to
the exposed civil populations. The bestial instinct gradually takes over
the impulse of power on others. The door is thus, unfortunately, opened,
for a return to a lower stage of evolution.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has the great merit to
have tried to make the dignity of any person being respected, as
stipulated in the text adopted on 10.12.1948. It is largely known in the
world, but finds little practical application in certain countries. It
would thus be particularly useful to reinforce the irreplaceable support
which it constitutes in the history of humanity by adding the principle of
"native earth of our last known ancestors to which we belong",
as a basic and natural right of any living person, independently of
existing territorial conventions.
The land and the chain of generations are the principal material elements
binding the past to the present and constitute the framework of the
reality in which we exist.
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The objectives of TERRAPPA are as follows :
In the immediate future :
To propose to the UN the investigation,
without delay, into the possibility of
prohibiting wars, all over the world, and to
insist on the support of all nations towards
the priority application of diplomatic measures,
if necessary, by rather firm actions, to render
ineffective and harmless those persons
responsible for unrests (political, military,
religious, as well as terrorist groups) which,
if not contained by legal actions, may break
into wars.
To propose to the International Federation
of Human Rights (IFHR) an addendum
to the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights of 10.12.1948, granting to the
people uprooted against their will or randomly
in circumstances of a troubled past, a basic,
natural and legitimate right of appurtenance to
the land of their last known ancestors, with
the possibility of returning there if they so
desire.
In the long run :
To propose avenues for reflexion, to relevant
international authorities, leading to the most
reasonable possibilities for the development of
an economic and intelligent civil society, which
is able to take its destiny in its own hands, to
reject excesses from which it suffers, and to
create more favourable living conditions for its
children and other descendants.
Progress towards the achievements of these objectives will be the
communicated by TERRAPPA who reserves the right of publishing it on
its website.
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