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New NGLS publication: “Reclaiming Multilateralism: For People, Rights and Sustainable Development”

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. Published on Mon, 2012-06-18 09:47

Civil Society Reflection Group launches report: No future without justice

Published on Fri, 2012-06-15 20:10

by Roberto Bissio

Twenty years ago, the concept of “sustainable development” was adopted at the highest level in Rio de Janeiro to simultaneously aim at preserving the planet for future generations and promoting a sound development to meet the needs of the present ones. Twenty years after, the volume of international trade has multiplied by five and the per capita world income has doubled to around ten thousand dollars a year. And yet sustainable development is far from being achieved. Increased resources has not accelerated poverty reduction and instead social inequality is on the rise in most countries, North and South, while the unsustainable production and consumption patterns have already overstepped several “planetary boundaries.”

Civil society organisations call on the EU to re-commit to Rio principles

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. Published on Fri, 2012-06-15 15:23

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México: Telecracia no es democracia

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. Published on Fri, 2012-06-15 13:56

SOCIAL WATCH E-NEWSLETTER - Issue 89 - June 15, 2012

Published on Fri, 2012-06-15 09:17

How to measure human well-being, equity and sustainability

Published on Thu, 2012-06-14 08:36

Photo: Chad Magiera/Flickr/CC

The international community must find new indicators to measure the performance of the countries and the world on economy, equity, well-being, human rights and sustainability, suggests the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives, made up of 18 leading activists and scholars from all over the planet.

G20, finances and human rights

Published on Wed, 2012-06-13 15:33

“Human rights considerations have no place” in the discussions of the Group of 20 (G20), “nevertheless their actions have significant impacts on the realization and enjoyment of human rights,” and the members of the bloc “cannot disregard their human rights obligations in any forum, including multilateral economic institutions,” warned the initiative "A bottom up approach to righting financial regulation" in its fourth issue.

Ecuador: Las mujeres van

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. Published on Tue, 2012-06-12 11:37

Reflection Group proposes changes that future justice for all will require

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. Published on Tue, 2012-06-12 11:27

Civil society organizations calls on the EU to re-commit to Rio Principals

Published on Tue, 2012-06-12 08:26

Danish minister Ida Auken, EU
commissioner Janez Potocnik
and Danish expert Mikkel
Aaro-Hansen at the Environment
Counicil this week.
(Photo: European Council)

Civil society organizations from around the world are calling on the EU to unreservedly re-commit, in both letter and spirit, to the Rio principles adopted 20 years ago. EU Environment Ministers, who meet in Luxembourg on Monday 11 June, are being urged to demonstrate that EU policies and practices pursued within and outside the EU will be consistent with the principles of sustainable development.

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