About Charters, Manifestos, and Declarations

Issues on human rights, on inclusion, and on interventions and supports necessary to guarantee everyone a decent satisfactory life can be found in a number of proclamations, official documents, declarations, charters and manifestos. Some of these have tried for several decades to focus attention on ‘universal’ questions, for example the very famous Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10th December 1948 (http://www.un.org/en/ universal-declaration-human-rights), others on more specific themes concerning, for instance, education or the difficulties and needs of specific groups of individuals (e.g., with disabilities; with hearing, visual and motor impairments, of children, youths, older persons, immigrants, etc.1). All of that has driven us to work for a Manifesto on Inclusion that could help us identify the changes that contexts need to make in order to allow everybody a life of quality. Inclusion is an original non-standardized way of living together in the conviction that diversities are opportunities not to be missed, authentic resources in a community for which they represent its own capital. From this viewpoint, inclusion has no boundaries: it will have to make its way dynamically in and out of schools and universities; it will affect studying, working, and leisure time; it is a path, a goal, a challenge, a dream that will never be realized once and for all but will always be in the making.