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- Defending basic labour standards and other human rights
everywhere is in the interests of everyone in Finland and beyond.
- The rise in prosperity and stability of the developing countries improves the prospects
for people in Finland to conserve and further their welfare.
- The common good cannot be achieved without effective public services. The public sector
is needed as a provider of education, healthcare, clean water and many other services, as
well as a maintainer of stable and balanced development.
- The concept of social responsibility in the name of the common good should be broadened
globally so that it also applies to profit-seeking businesses.
- Improving the status of women and girls creates conditions for solving many fundamental
problems.
- Socialisation of global development requires a regulated change in the international
distribution of labour. The trade union movement is in a key position to take the
initiative on this matter.
- Organisation of labour and international networking of trade union organisations are
central instruments of democratic change.
- The trade union movement will achieve the best results by engaging in broad co-operation
with non-governmental organisations, experts and policymakers – and on an equal
footing – also with employers.
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- International trade rules should be changed as part of a
strategy to overcome poverty. A first step would be to condition trade by basic labour
standards.
- Poverty cannot be overcome without changing world agricultural trade and subsidy systems
in a way that benefits the developing countries.
- The slower the move to effecting the necessary structural changes in energy and other
sectors, the more difficult it will be to prevent climate change.
- Development co-operation, learning from its mixed experiences, promotes achievement of
common goals of the north and south. A fundamental increase in development co-operation
funding serves the long-term interests of the developed countries. This increase can be
financed most effectively by taxing speculative currency transfers.
- Modern methods of information transfer enhance the prospects of organised civil groups
for influencing State agencies and policymakers in the business community.
- Just and equitable development requires the democratisation of all institutions,
especially those of the State and multilateral organs, and implementation of the
principles of good governance. The redistribution of power must favour the hitherto
disempowered.
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