Keyword: Rio+20
Disasters: New risk index helps identify vulnerability
A family works to navigate the flooded streets of Cotabato City, Mindanao [19 June 2011] © David Swanson/IRIN
A new disaster risk index launched by the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn could help donors and aid organizations better understand why some countries are more at risk of calamity than others, and shape their responses when disaster strikes.
Climate Change and Urbanization: Perspective Bangladesh
Water pollution slum Gulshan Lake, Dhaka, Rahman lrnirjhar
The inhabitants of Dhaka are 15 million, 40% of it is “homeless slum dwellers”, and in each year population is increasing by 1.1 million. Change can be happen only through a horrific change, when each of the building will be built with proper plan, if the in-city industries are relocated to a planned industrial zones, new residential areas will be built for the new comers, new parks, open spaces, play grounds will be created, roads will be wider, pollution will be reduced, then the city will be full of green.
Inhabitants in Dhaka, en route to Rio+20
Part of the Inaugural session
During the SASF Shelter for the Poor have organized a seminar on the “Climate Change and Urbanization: Perspective Bangladesh” and have Coordinated a “Plenary” of the “Human Rights and dignity” along with other organisations (WAI Bangladesh Committee, PDAP, IPD, RHDS, DSK and PRATAY). More 100 people have attended this step to prepare the inhabitants participation in Rio+20 next June 2012.
Mobilitiamoci insieme per Rio+20 e oltre
Peoples and citizens are already starting to prepare for the Summit Rio+20. Find here the Initiatives and the schedule of activities of the partners in the process. Find also the Documents and Proposals, and be part of the Rio+20 Community.
Gli abitanti verso il Vertice dei Popoli. Proposte e lotte per abitare bene il nostro pianeta
The International Alliance of Inhabitants, global network of urban social organizations and movements without boundaries, strongly supports the Call of the People's Summit for Social and environmental Justice and the Permanent Assembly of the Peoples, against the commoditisation of life and nature and in defense of common goods, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-23 June 2012, simultaneously to the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
Costruendo la Via Urbana e Comunitaria da Porto Alegre verso il Vertice dei Popoli a Rio
Building an Urban and Communitarian Way from Porto Alegre to the Peoples’ Summit in Rio
During the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre which included CONAM, FCOC, IAI, FNRU, the unity of urban social movements was highlighted. Also highlighted was the fight against evictions. This debate takes place in the context of participation-building at the Peoples’ Summit and at the Peoples’ Permanent Assembly that will take place parallel to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference, where we intend to advance the construction of the Urban and Communitarian Way.
¡Contamos con tu participación! 27 al 29 de abril 2012, Xalapa, Veracruz
El Colectivo de Organizaciones Mexicanas por la Justicia Social y Ambiental
hacia la Cumbre de los Pueblos, convoca el Encuentro internacional
México construyendo la Cumbre de los Pueblos Río+20
a realizarse del 27 al 29 de abril en la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz.
¡Contamos con tu participación! 27 al 29 de abril 2012, Xalapa, Veracruz
Les invitamos al Encuentro Mexico construyendo la cumbre de los Pueblos a realizarse en la ciudad de Xalapa, Ver.El evento sera transmitido en directo por RADIO CIRCE, les enviamos el enlace. Esperamos se conecten y compartan con nosotras este evento.
Towards Rio: Xalapa Declaration
Los habitantes debatiendo el derecho a la ciudad sustentable (Xalapa, 28-29 de abril 2012)
International Meeting: Mexico building the Peoples’ Summit, Rio +20
With the shining April sun that browns our skin, the trees flowering in purple, white, orange and yellow they are surprised of out tenacity. The women and men dress in the colours of the Wiphala flag, a sign of diversity, tolerance and harmony.
Rio, gli abitanti si uniscono nella lotta per abitare bene il nostro pianeta
La AIH manifestando para bien habitar nuestro Planeta (Rio de Janeiro,21 06 2012)
La participación de los movimientos sociales del campo y la ciudad en la Cumbre de los Pueblos, contra el “capitalismo verde” de Rio+20 que profundiza la crisis global y del medio ambiente. Próximas etapas para los habitantes que luchan para “bien habitar nuestro planeta”, el FSU en Nápoles en septiembre y la Asamblea Mundial de los Habitantes en 2013 en Tunes.
Etapa para construir la Vía Urbana y Comunitaria
La Antena Sur participò a la Cumbre de los Pueblos, contra la mercantilización de la vida y de la naturaleza y en defensa de los bienes comunes, que se realizò en Río de Janeiro, Brasil Del 15 al 23 de junio, como alternativa de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Desarrollo Sustentable (Río+20).