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Human Rights and Sustainable Development

June 25, 2012 · by Jaimini Parekh · in Rio+20
It was a simple message: Women’s rights are human rights! Women’s rights not corporate rights! Women and the planet are not for sale! Repeat. Women’s rights are human rights! Women’s rights not corporate rights! Women and the planet are not for sale! A simple, straightforward, revolutionary message. I raised my voice in protest with my fellow women as we shouted in the courtyard of the Rio Centro convention center. With the sounds of “Not for sale!” reverberating in my lungs, drumming against my chest, I realized I was protesting much more than the position of the Holy See in opposition to the inclusion of reproductive rights in the Outcome Document. I was also protesting the recent Supreme Court judgment that corporations are people as well as extractive industries and carbon markets. As I discussed in an earlier blog post, human rights protections have far greater recognition in the Outcome Document compared with the Zero…

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