Christophe Giovannetti, President of the UNF, is pleased to announce the signing of the Declaration of the Rights of Humanity by the Institut Pasteur de Lille.
By signing, this Friday, November 18, 2022, the Universal Declaration of Humankind Rights, the Institut Pasteur de Lille reaffirms its commitment to the protection of current and future generations, illustrated on a daily basis through its research and prevention activities in favor of longevity and infectious diseases.
Corinne Lepage, former Minister of the Environment and Jacques Richir, Deputy Mayor of Lille and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institut Pasteur de Lille signed on Friday November 18, 2022 the Universal Declaration of Humankind Rights (DuDH ) alongside Christophe Giovannetti, President of the UNF and Secretary General of the Friends of the DDHU and Didier Bonneau, General Deputy Director of the Institute.
With this commitment, the Institut Pasteur de Lille joins the signatories of this charter (local authorities, companies, universities, etc.), initiated in 2015 by Corinne Lepage at the request of the President of the Republic François Hollande for COP 21.
The DNA of the Institut Pasteur de Lille, created in 1895 by Louis Pasteur and Albert Calmette to enable the inhabitants of Lille to fight against a serious epidemic of diphtheria is in perfect coherence with the rights and duties of the DuDH, which “proclaims the right living species and Humanity to exist and live in a healthy environment” according to Corinne Lepage, founder of the text.
The Institut Pasteur de Lille has been committed for 120 years to health research and innovation to enable everyone to “Live better longer”. Today, 600 researchers and members of the scientific community contribute, through their discoveries and preventive actions, to the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, cancers and cardiovascular diseases.
Among the rights, duties and principles enacted by this text, the Institut Pasteur de Lille retains in particular the “duty to direct scientific and technical progress towards the preservation of the health of the human species and of other species,” and the right “to peace and security in environmental, health, food, economic and political terms.
This commitment of current generations to the benefit of future generations is found in the very spirit of the Institut Pasteur de Lille: On the occasion of the signing of the Declaration, Jacques Richir notably recalled that Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin, co – Inventors in 1921 of BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis, made the choice to offer it to the world, thus saving millions of children at a time when tuberculosis, called the white plague, was wreaking havoc.
