Rio+20 Women’s Major Group submission

Asia Pacific Women’s Watch APWW has circulated the Rio+20 Women’s Major Group submission summary which was presented on November 1st in response to the request for input by the Secretariat for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, will take place in Brazil in June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World

Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.

The Women´s Major Group submission was developed by 50 organizations worldwide, including FEIM, to reflect the diversity of women’s perspectives, and with the aim of having the language and demands

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