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Original definition: Do not exploit another person's ignorance, vulnerability, impairment, or predictable weakness.

Original definition: Protect recurring rest from relentless production and include dependent workers and animals in that protection.

Original definition: Recognize the inherent value of living beings, species, ecosystems, and the interdependent community of life.

Original definition: Exercise human power with understanding, restraint, compassion, and responsibility toward people and other life.

Original definition: Conserve and restore ecosystems, biodiversity, soils, waters, atmosphere, and natural processes that sustain life.

Original definition: Prioritize prevention, precaution, and careful assessment over remediation after serious ecological damage.

Original definition: Require decision-makers and producers to bear the real ecological and social costs of their activities.

Original definition: Reduce waste, overconsumption, pollution, and resource depletion while supporting dignified human well-being.

Original definition: Provide timely and understandable information needed for public participation in environmental decisions.

Original definition: Avoid cruelty and unnecessary harm to animals and recognize the moral significance of nonhuman life.

Original definition: Recognize Indigenous peoples' authority to determine their political status and pursue their own development.

Original definition: Seek genuine, timely, informed, and noncoercive consent before measures or projects significantly affect Indigenous peoples.

Original definition: Respect Indigenous relationships to traditionally owned, occupied, used, or acquired lands, waters, and resources.

Original definition: Safeguard ceremonies, sacred sites, traditions, institutions, and spiritual relationships from suppression or desecration.

Original definition: Support the transmission, revitalization, control, and responsible use of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledge.

Original definition: Reject policies intended to erase Indigenous identity, culture, institutions, language, or collective existence.

Original definition: Offer fair restitution, compensation, restoration, or other effective remedies for wrongful taking or destruction.

Original definition: Use representative institutions and good-faith consultation in laws, policies, research, and development affecting Indigenous communities.

Original definition: Do not separate Indigenous children from their families or communities through discriminatory or assimilationist policies.

Original definition: Recognize Indigenous authority concerning cultural objects, human remains, genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and cultural expression.