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Rio +20 Women’s Major Group: Sustainable development must be based on equity, human rights and gender equality!
Today, March 26th, during the Third Intersessional meeting of the UNCSD — to discuss and prepare the outcome of Rio+20 in June– the Women’s Major Group delivered the following intervention:
Win a trip to Rio+20! Share your views and help define the Future YOU Want
Rio+20 is an opportunity for women around the world to come together in shaping the future we want!
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Women on the Road to Rio+20
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 13-22 June 2012
Rio+20 is an opportunity for women around the world to come together in shaping the future we want!
From June 20th – 22nd, 2012, less than 100 days from today, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World leaders will be gathered- with hopes and plans for securing a sustainable future.
The Women’s Major Group aims to advocate for an outcome which represents the diversity of women’s views and perspectives and which solidifies the central importance of achieving gender …
UN Women Travel Funding for Rio+20
Calling women’s organizations from all sectors and regions!
UN Women has received a travel grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to facilitate the participation of civil society, including grassroots women’s organizations in the Rio process. Women’s Major Group is the implementing partner for this initiative.
Applications are available in English, Spanish, and French. Please send your request with an application attached to nomination@womenrio20.org.
Please be advised that funding is very limited and only a small number of highly qualified applicants will be selected.
The deadline for applications is March 12th, 2012.
To receive the application in English, click here.
To download the application …
New UN Global Sustainability Panel Report Advocates People-Centered Sustainable Development
“People are at the center of our vision of sustainable development.”
Today, January 30th 2012, the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability released its final report Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing. The Panel, launched on August 9th 2010, has spent the last few months conducting consultations with an array of Government, civil society and private sector experts aimed to “formulate a new vision for sustainable growth and prosperity, along with mechanisms for achieving it.” [See WEDO's input at March 2011 GSP Interactive Panel]. Their efforts reflect the long term vision set out in the 1987 report of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), entitled Our Common Future, and better known as the Brundtland Report. However, Resilient People, Resilient Planet, attempts to address why 25 years after the Brundtland Report, sustainable development has not become a practical reality. The report concludes with 56 recommendations which outline “concrete proposals in three key areas: empowering people to make sustainable choices, working towards a sustainable economy, and strengthening institutional governance to support sustainable development.” The Panel hopes that these recommendations can feed into the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), as well as other inter-governmental processes.
