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The Declaration

the text that left the room, the signatures it gathered and the translations it earned

Briefs on this beat

  1. A delegate standing at a microphone in a plenary hall speaking while a timer display glows red, name plates and earpieces on the desk declaration The explanation of position What happens to a delegation's objection after the chair gavels a text through anyway, and how an explanation of position differs from a veto.
  2. An old printed manifesto beside a modern laptop showing a current climate news page, both lit by the same desk lamp declaration Reading a declaration twenty years on A method for reading old movement texts: what to ask of them, what not to ask, and what they can still teach.
  3. A printed list of organisation names under a statement heading, many rows of entries, a hand adding another name at the bottom declaration The signature as an organising tool How sign-on statements work as organising instruments, and what the signature list is for.
  4. Six identical document folders in different colours arranged in a circle on a conference table, pens at the centre declaration A declaration in six languages What the 2004 Durban Declaration said, how it was structured, and why it was published in six languages.

In detail

01The explanation of positiondeclaration

What happens to a delegation's objection after the chair gavels a text through anyway, and how an explanation of position differs from a veto. The Declaration ·

02Reading a declaration twenty years ondeclaration

A method for reading old movement texts: what to ask of them, what not to ask, and what they can still teach. The Declaration ·

03The signature as an organising tooldeclaration

How sign-on statements work as organising instruments, and what the signature list is for. The Declaration ·

04A declaration in six languagesdeclaration

What the 2004 Durban Declaration said, how it was structured, and why it was published in six languages. The Declaration ·