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In an accompanying statement the Laureates stressed that the Charter was only a beginning. “We as Nobel Peace Laureates and Peace Laureate organizations have a duty to demand answers to these questions and we commit to continue to press political candidates and all world leaders for responses," they said. "We encourage citizens, especially youth who will be most effected by the answer to these questions, to energetically pursue them also. Further, we expect the press to insist that candidates and leaders articulate their plans to ensure a sustainable and just future”.
Click here to read the text of the charter, and watch videos of the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Muhammad Yunus and others at the release of the Charter.