In an ever increasing way, these communities are splintering under the combined pressures of demographics, economics, ecology and culture.
Globalisation favours an elite integrated in the global economy, with economic and political power.
At the same time, the standard of living for the rural and urban poor is deteriorating. We are witnesses of the similarities between societies in the South and the North. We see it as our role to contribute to a global response by participating in the mobilisation of public opinion. Therefore, we try to increase the support of the North's civil society for the process of co-operation in development. We are opposed to the single ultraliberal approach to development which would reduce it to economic mechanisms of growth and market.