1 i 2 grudnia 2011 odbędzie się w Genewie Regionalne spotkanie przygotowawcze Konferencji ONZ na temat zrównoważonego rozwoju Rio +20.

Powiązanie między ekologią i rozwojem społecznym jest ważną kwestią.

Jako organizacja działająca na rzecz osób najuboższych jesteśmy zaniepokojeni wpływem jaki może mieć przestawienie się na ,,zieloną gospodarkę” na grupy zagrożone wykluczeniem.

Międzynarodowy Ruch ATD Czwarty Świat, którego Ruch ATD Polska jest członkiem, przygotował dokument w którym przedstawiamy nasze stanowisko.

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Social Watch Report 2012: The right to a future

Civil society urges Rio+20 to create the Ombudsperson for Future Generations

The united Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held next year in Rio de Janeiro gives the opportunity to create institutions to defend the rights of the future generations, according to representatives of civil society from all over the world who contributted to the Social Watch Report 2012, launched in New York on Friday 9.

“The ‘right to a future’ is the most urgent task of the present,” wrote in the overview of the Report Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch and editor-in-chief of the study. “It is about nature, yes, but it is also about our grandchildren, and about our own dignity, the expectations of the 99% of the world’s 7 billion men and women, girls and boys that were promised sustainability two decades ago and have found instead their hopes and aspirations being melted into betting chips of a global financial casino beyond their control.”

“We support the recommendation to establish the institution of an Ombudsperson for intergenerational justice/future generations,” stated the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives, comprised of members of Social Watch, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, terre des hommes, Third World Network, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, DAWN and the Global Policy Forum, in a preliminary statement included in the Social Watch Report 2012.

The lengthy study, based on the contribution of citizens’ organizations in 66 countries from all over the world that produced their national reports, concludes that “growing inequalities and unregulated finances are expropiating people everywhere from their fair share in the benefits of global prosperity”. “Our children will inherit the burden of deforestation, desertification, erosion of biodiversity and climate change. To revert this trend, the promise of universal dignity brought by human rights has to be enforced and the rights of future generations need to be recognized and properly defended,” concludes this 16th edition of the Social Watch Report.

On the eve of the Rio+20 conference, the large group of men and women that took part in this exhaustive work focused their analysis on the performance of the governments regarding sustainable development, a principle approved by the chiefs of State and Government at the Earth Summit held in 1992, also in Rio de Janeiro.

The book includes thematic chapters written by members of relevant social and academic organizations, such as the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development, Third World Network, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Social Development Network (SODNET, Kenia), Eurostep, Feminist Alliance For International Action (FAFIA, Canadá), Global Policy Forum and terre des hommes.

It also contains the data of the most recent measurement of the Basic Capabilities Index (BCI), indicator that combines infant mortality rates, the number of births attended by trained personnel and enrolment rates in primary school. This year Japan is in the top position and Chad at the bottom. The global BCI shows progresses between 1990 and 2011, although in general the progress slowed down between the previous decade and the next one. Since 2000, the BCI moved up just 3 points (100 is the maximum value), while world CO2 emissions, that had fallen in the last decade of the 20th century, moved up from 4.1 tons per capita to 4.6 tons. World trade and per capita income also grew faster than the social indicators.

This edition includes the Gender Equity Index (GEI) and the new Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment Index (SERF Index), that determines the extent to which countries are meeting their obligations to fulfill five human rights enumerated in the International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: the right to food, the right to adequate shelter, the right to healthcare, the right to education, and the right to decent work.

Polish contribution in SW report 2012 was prepared by the Green Institute and ATD Polska