Aotearoa New
Zealand
just working for a just world
Corso
is a Pacific-based NGO active in local communities across Aotearoa
New Zealand. We act in solidarity with communities
in the Pacific and beyond.
The Principles of Corso
- Corso supports the return of Tino Rangatiratanga to Maori people
as guaranteed in the Treaty of Waitangi, as the first step towards
the liberation
of all the people of Aotearoa. This process is inseparable from Corso's
work for a just world.
- The present world order does not allow the full development of people
in either high or low-income countries - in fact it is a barrier
to the growth of people everywhere because it is based on the unequal
distribution
of wealth and power.
- A condition of development
is to transform the present world order, not merely to promote a transition
from economic poverty to the equally inhuman state of over-consumption.
- Human development is inseparable from justice and encompasses equal
access to economic opportunity, production for peoples' needs, participation
in all levels of decision-making, respect for cultural diversity
and respect for the human rights of all.
- Corso's task is to promote total human development by supporting people, both in New Zealand and overseas, to work together in transforming the conditions and structures of injustice and the attitudes that reinforce them.
PO Box 1375, Dunedin phone (03) 477 3395 fax (03) 474 0736 corso@earthlight.co.nz
