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The Future Women Want: Why Reproductive Rights Matter at Rio +20

"I realized I had become pregnant. I was worried -- how would I continue to work? How would my children eat? Go to school?" Beatriz told me last month when I sat down with her in Medellin, Colombia.

Assault On Women’s Reproductive Rights And Gender Equality At Rio+20

Rio +20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is renewing international conversations about how to simultaneously address poverty, protect the environment, and maintain balanced economic growth.

Remarks by Michelle Bachelet Executive Director of UN Women at Rio+20

Remarks by Michelle Bachelet Executive Director of UN Women at Rio+20 High-level Event on Sustainable Development in an Unequal World. Wednesday 20 June 2012.

Women begin the series of mobilizations during the People's Summit in Rio +20

On June 18th, women highlighted that is necessary to build equality and end violence against women to overcome the capitalist, patriarchal, homophobic and racist model of development, translated today in the green economy

DAWN Speaks Truth to Power at Rio + 20 Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

Ixchal is a sharp and wise Mayan goddess. One of her signs is the rainbow as her wisdom comes from the fertility of the earth.

Governments Gamble with our Future: South Feminists Demand Responsible Action Now

While governments were locked in their semantic battles in the Rio+20 process, women’s and other social movements continue to fight on multiple fronts for human rights, justice and sustainability.

Rio-20: The Future They Want-decided!

According to the main page of the Rio+20 website this morning, "Negotiations have come to a successful conclusion." We got yesterday word that governments were finished and the Future They Want decided.

Disappointment and frustration abound in Rio

World Alliance for Citizen Participation is deeply dismayed with the outcome of Rio+20 and believes the under-achievement of Rio raises serious questions about the ability of the inter-governmental system as currently constituted to achieve sustainable development, protection of human rights, and the full participation of people.

IPPF condemns Rio's alarming disregard for reproductive rights

There were few unanimous voices emerging from the Rio+20 summit on “Sustainable Development”. Sadly, one that was unanimous was that of the Reproductive Rights (RR) community: united in its disappointment and outright anger that once again RR had been sidelined and alluded to in only the most cursory fashion in the outcome document.

Critical issues for Asia Pacific women missing from "The Future We Want"

Women from Asia Pacific demand governments address critical issues on women’s human rights missing in the Rio+20 negotiations for sustainable development. Employment and economic rights, militarisation, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and women’s role in climate change significantly impact women across the region, yet are being ignored. Asia Pacific women call for States to ensure the promotion, protection and realisation of women’s human rights in the outcome document.

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