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World leaders accused of backsliding on women's rights
Mary Robinson says failure on reproductive rights could have devastating impact on poorest and most powerless women
Read more...Will the World Listen to Women?
What does birth control have anything to do with reducing global emissions?
Read more...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.
Read more...RIO+20: "Backsliding" on women's rights
RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - Population growth and women’s right to choose when to have children could become hot issues again.
Read more...Women march in Rio to protest 'green economy'
AFP - Thousands of women representing social and farm movements marched in central Rio Monday to rail against the "green economy" advocated by the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development.
Read more...Battle for Human Rights in Rio Is "Far From Over"
IPS interviews NAVANETHEM PILLAY, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Read more...Rio+20: The future women want
We can see unsustainable development everywhere in the world around us.
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