About this Story
This article is the outcome of an initiative World Pulse launched on our online community platform, inviting global grassroots women leaders to outline their personal experiences and recommendations on equitable and sustainable development.
In partnership with Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), we gathered 55 statements representing women from 28 countries ranging from Papua New Guinea to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The stories were delivered via the Women's Major Group to top world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) that will take place June 20-22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This conference marks the 20th anniversary of the first 'Earth Summit' in 1992—a landmark UN summit organized in response to the growing ecological crisis.
Click here to learn more and to read all the powerful submissions.
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Invest in a quality Population & sustainable environment
Unless government investments focus on having a quality population and a well managed and sustainable environment , only then can our countries ensure a bright future for the next generations
Grace Ikirimat
"It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success."
Call for an uncompromisable future
Sustainable development is all about securing an uncompromisable future for humanity and our ecosystem; and we can only succeed in the drive by tackling the very issues that fuel the embers of exclusion and injustice. Everyone has a role to play and there is something every one can do. The need for man to live in harmony with nature is not negotiable and the earlier we accept this fact and have the will to make certain of that, the better.
Olanike
This is very eloquent, well
This is very eloquent, well said and true. Thank you.
Ubuntu (I am who I am because of who we are together)
Wendy Stebbins
Wendy Stebbins
Founder/CEO
I AM ONE IN A MILLION Non-Profit Organization focused on helping street orphans and vulnerable children in Livingstone, Zambia Africa.
Best Wishes!
Many thanks to you! You are an embodiment of encouragement!
Very warm regards,
Olanike Olugboji
Best Wishes!
Many thanks to you! You are an embodiment of encouragement!
Very warm regards,
Olanike Olugboji
The sun heats the ground and transforms the chemical in our body
Dear need to move information between people as well as their rights. Care and value is a solidary way to the environment and the lives of our brothers around the world
Kisses,
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where is the commitment?
Media reports say the Rio outcome document is weak and lacks ambition. And with the latest environmental assessment report dubbed GEO5 having stated that earth's resources especially the marine ones are still at high risk even after 20 years since Johannesburg summit,that resolved to reverse this kind of degradation among other resolutions, it calls for high will power and commitment by leaders and citizens to save the earth.
Rio+20 was a dissapointment
I don't how sustainable development can be achieved without linking climate change to sexual and reproductive health: an issue that affect girls and women most.
Olympics...
Why will Brazil be hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics when there is so much else to be done there? Will the Olympics bring more wealth and awareness to the issues as outlined above , or will it be a distraction, something that will convince the world that everything is okay in Brazil? I believe something needs to be done, and priorities need to be straightened out.
Kindersley
Love one another
It is really important to care and love each other in spite of racial differences.