VANNUCCINI -Protecting “At-Risk Children”: The Pioneering and Paradigmatic “Street Children” Case (Villagrán Morales et al. v. Guatemala) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights – Part II |
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A world which abandons its children in the streets has no future; it no longer renders it possible to create and develop a project of life. A world which neglects its elderly has no past; it no longer participates in the heritage of humankind. A world which only knows and values the ephemerous and escaping (and thereby desperating) present inspires no faith nor hope. A world which tries to ignore the precariousness of the human condition inspires no confidence. It is a world which has already lost sight of the temporal dimension of human existence. It is a world which ignores the intergenerational perspective, that is, the duties everyone has in relation to both those who have already gone through the path of their lives (our ancestors) as well as those who are still to do so (our descendants). [...]
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