by Aoife O'Grady
In an interview with Brazilian paper 'O Globo', former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has criticised the Vatican's stance on the reproductive rights of women, asking the question “What do celibate men know about the lives, health and the decisions of poor women?” Ms. Robinson was referring to the Vatican's alleged influence in the removal of reference to women's reproductive rights from the outcome document at Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development which concluded on Friday.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Rio+20: Cities bring sustainability to sub-national level
by Lidija Grozdanić
Few urban settlements
outside the South American continent exhibit such visible thirst for space as
Brazil’s Cidade Meravilhosa. The
vortex of mixtures and co-existing extremes, permeating all aspects of Rio de
Janeiro’s life, creates an urban continuity
glued together by a single unifying force – the desire to live in the city.
Clinging to steep hill slopes, burdened by poverty and inadequate infrastructure, informal settlements are pulsating tentacles
of the urbanscape, reminding the Rio+20 participants of the urgency of
addressing sustainable urbanization issues.
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