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Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service

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The objectives of CCIVS are related to the promotion and development of the voluntary service movement on national, regional and international levels in the contemporary world:

Towards peace, international understanding, friendship and co-operation among the people of the world, particularly the youth, in order to advance and improve the future of humanity;

Towards the development and the furthering of efforts concerning developing countries, in order to strengthen their national independence;

In Solidarity with people struggling for national independence, democracy, social progress and against all forces not observing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

For the benefit of people affected by all forms of social and economic exploitation, unemployment and bad working and living conditions, and the promotion of awareness and action against these forms of degradation;

For the benefit of a fruitful co-ordination of the activities of the CCIVS members.

In order to achieve:

The propagation and development of the aims of voluntary service and its educational impact both on the volunteers and the community in which they work;

The promotion and development of relations and co-operation with other voluntary service organisations, with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), with youth and student organisations and movements on a broad political, religious and social spectrum, which are dedicated and committed to contributing to the objectives of the voluntary service movement;

The support of the United Nations Principles: co-operation and contribution to the implementation of the programmes and the initiatives of the United Nations and its bodies on questions of common interest, especially to develop co-operation on a broader scale with UNESCO, striving for the realisation of common initiatives and the contribution to each other programmes.

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