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ACHA DECLARATION OF
COMMITMENT
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Members of the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia declare
their commitment to peace and communal harmony in South Asia, and
promise to support and promote this objective by non-violent methods,
including the following:
- They affirm that members of other religious and ethnic
communities are as human as those of any other. As such they
deserve the same respect as those of any community. They will
treat members of other religious and ethnic groups with dignity
and fairness.
- They will avoid and discourage all jokes and comments where
the purpose or effect is to ridicule or belittle any person or
group on the basis of religion, or ethnic origin.
- They will respect the right of each individual to worship God
in the way (s)he wishes. They will refrain from imposing their
ways of worship and their religious practices on others.
- They will respect the founders, holy books, and places of
worship of other religions. They shall not speak ill of them, nor
they shall in any way desecrate or harm them.
- Every year, in addition to doing something for the welfare of
their own community, they will contribute financially or otherwise
to the welfare of individuals of at least one other ethnic or
religious community.
- They will seek out other like-minded individuals in their
community and elsewhere, and they will work with them to promote
and foster peace and harmony among various communities and
countries of South Asia. They will not do anything that is likely
to incite disharmony or discord among them.
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