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Dear Colleagues,
The World Assembly for the Welfare of the Child, held in Genoa in 1925, established June 1 as World Children's Day. Millions of children around the world live in conditions of extreme poverty, hunger, disease and social exclusion; child labour plagues them, keeping them away from education and social prospects. Children are still the first victims of war, countless crises and disasters and climate change. Underscoring the fact that children's rights are universal human rights, recognizing the crucial role that children and young people play as agents of change and the future, we as a House of Representatives pledge that we will continue to work tirelessly to protect, empower and respect the rights of every child, regardless of their racial origin, gender, socio-economic background, sexual orientation or intellectual capacity.
Dear Colleagues,
On 5 June 1972, the first World Conference on the Human Environment took place in Stockholm, under the auspices of the United Nations, where the foundations were laid for environmental protection policy and the formulation of a strategy for sustainable development. Since then, the UN has established 5 June as World Environment Day to raise awareness and inform the global public about the environmental problems facing the planet. Indiscriminate anthropogenic activity, which peaked in the 20th century, has irreparably damaged the natural world and the sustainability of the Earth, putting the future of humanity at risk. The climate crisis, accompanied by extreme heat, drought and floods, the loss of biodiversity and the richness of ecosystems are just around the corner, in a way that will mathematically lead to the extinction of the human species. This multiple crisis disproportionately affects the world's most vulnerable populations, including the poor, women and indigenous peoples, affecting more than three billion people. Millions of people are estimated to be displaced by the climate crisis by 2050. Cyprus is also suffering from the global impact of this planetary crisis, with 7% of Cypriot land already desertified, while facing prolonged droughts and increasingly frequent and destructive fires.
Dear colleagues,
As a legislature, we must support international efforts for environmental action and the creation of a more sustainable world by participating in the multilateral approach of the global community to immediately address the crisis. We are at the same time committed to respecting the conventions signed in the framework of environmental conferences, as well as to our commitment to the green transition and to the co-shaping of the relevant European and national strategies.
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