We start by stating that health is a fundamental human right and access to comprehensive, quality, and timely care must be guaranteed to all people, without any discrimination, according to need and respecting the beliefs and choices of each person.

This care can be provided from different perspectives, concepts, and interventions, freely chosen by people, requiring these therapies to show effectiveness and not cause more harm than they intend to repair.

Good Morning everyone. Let me thank the many people who made this Symposium possible, in this new interconnected form.

Throughout history, humanism has been considered a cultural movement that has placed the human being as a central focus.

Good afternoon (or good morning, depending on the time zone)!

Welcome to the 8th International Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies.

A NEW HUMANISM FOR A NEW WORLD

Pluralistic exchanges from a world in crisis

16-17-18 April 2021

http://2021.worldsymposium.org

According to a set of beliefs that have been imposed on us, money, or a more updated version of it, would solve all the problems of the planet. It was enough to believe in it, and the sufferings and pains of humanity would finally be defeated. According to this, money would be the only thing worth pursuing.

“At first sight, it gives the impression that, when the human being or even their ancestors arrived to a blind alley, it happened as though an aura of enlightenment had come down from heaven… and suddenly unexpected solutions were found.”
                                    AkopNazaretián

It’s the system that’s failing!

Change is in organized human action!

IV Symposium of the World Centre of Humanist Studies

In this time of great changes, individuals, institutions and societies are in crisis. We are going through times of urgency and possibility.

The paradigms we have been living by do not longer provide suitable answers, and the future is not entirely at sight yet.

Fast transformations wipe away the social landscape in which the preceding generations grew up, creating abysses of incomprehension and insecurity. The old world is already gone, but the new one is still to come.