Women's groups’ statements and reactions Folder
RIO+20 conference concludes without significant mention of reproductive health and rights
The “Future We Want” outcome document from this week’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, lacks meaningful inclusion of reproductive health and rights.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...RIO+20: From the Future we Want to the Future we Need
Women's Major Group Final Statement of the outcomes of Rio+20
Read more...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.
Read more...Rio+20 Agreement Fails Women, and the World
Brazil, a country that in the past has championed women’s human rights, including reproductive rights, at the global level, has failed women in both Brazil and the world over.
Read more...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.
Read more...Rio+20: A voice from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seida Saric is country director for Women for Women International in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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