This article tells the history of the world passport. Every nation has its own passport that gives the holder an identification of his identity and nationality; however, an organization based in Washington has been issues world passports, meaning that you are a citizen of world and can have free access to all the countries in the earth. Therefore, that does not work as its creators planned.
The world passport is issued by the World Service Authority, a non-profit organization founded 1953 by Garry Davis, an activist and also the world’s passport creator. Garry has been more than 20 times imprisoned for trying to cross national borders only carrying his world passport. He states that “free travel is a fundamental human right and that world peace is only possible with the creation of a world government in opposition to the system of national-states” (Davis). All his romanticism and ideology has produced some progress in the process of a world citizenship, although it is a very modest advancement. It is truth that individuals holding Mr. Davis passport have been successful in crossing the borders of 150 countries at least in one occasion, therefore only 5 of those countries officially accepts it as a legal form of identification.
The world passport does look like a regular, national passport, except it is issued in seven different languages. If you want to get yours, a fee of $45 should be paid with an expiration term of 3 years. It wouldn’t be recognized by countries such as Great Britain and Japan but you would be able to get your entrance allowed in countries such as Ecuador and Tanzania.
It is a quite interesting fact that Garry Davis is a former World War II bomber pilot. As mentioned before (in the issue essay) the world citizenship has the wars as it opposite. A man that saw the horror of a war, specially a war between so many different nations, probably awakened the idea of having a united world after experiencing the disgrace of people killing each other only because they were from different nationality, race or religion. Hence, the feeling of wanting to see all people united inspired Garry in his project of creating an organization that was going to fight for people’s freedom, starting through the creation of the world passport.
I researched about the world government on the internet and randomly found Engber’s article. I want some examples of people, organizations or even states that fight for the world’s citizenship so I can build a research paper more solid and rich in information. I hope this is the first of many more examples that I will have to add to my final paper. Weather I have or not enough examples an emphasis in interviews with common people, the ones that do not publicly manifest their desires of freedom will also be part of my paper so I can give a better idea to the reader about the progress and people’s opinion whether supporting or not the world citizenship.
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