Live from Rio! Human Rights in Future We Want

Direct from Brazil, follow @UNrightswire #RightsRio for live coverage of Rio+20: Human Rights in #FutureWeWant. Join UN human rights chief Navi Pillay to speak up, ask questions and join the conversation!

  1. Speak up on our social media platforms to be heard in Rio! The outcome of Rio+20 will define The Future We Want... make sure it really is the Future You Want and participate.
  2. Click here for the latest news releases calling for human rights at Rio+20
  3. Click here for ideas about specific rights (food, water and sanitation) and sustainable development
  4. "the rio surprise" despite the failures Rio+20 shows sustainable development must be built on human rights: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Media.aspx?IsMediaPage=true&LangID=E #rightsrio
  5. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Glad #Rioplus20 outcome now infused by human rights. Action & accountability needed now-Pillay @ #Rioplus20
  6. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Simply impossible in 21st Century to talk ab sustainable dev w/o due regard for human rights! Pillay @ #Rioplus20
  7. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: responding human rights, poverty reduction & other challenges, UN works as a team, Ban says at #Rioplus20
  8. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Green economy must be participatory & anchored in human rights & rule of law to be sustainable-Pillay @ #Rioplus20
  9. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: eco & dev policies w/o human rights can cause suffering e.g: exclusion, forced eviction-rights chief Pillay #Rioplus20
  10. Despite some progress, not good enough on human rights at #Rioplus20, say @hrw + @amnesty http://webtv.un.org/search/once-in-a-generation-chance:-anchor-sustainable-development-in-human-rights-at-rio20-press-conference-rio20/1697162578001?term=HUman Rights Watch #RightsRio
  11. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Glad #Rioplus20 outcome now infused by human rights. Action & accountability needed now-Pillay @ #Rioplus20
  12. @UN SG Ban Ki-moon: We cannot rest while so many people are hungry - we have enough food but not distributed equally #rioplus20 #RightsRio
  13. @CHedegaardEU: Having followed NY negotiations I can testify that they all knew. Good proposals were on the table #rioplus20 #RightsRio
  14. #RightsRio World leaders accused of failure as #RioPlus20 poised to set no new targets or timetables: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/world-leaders-accused-of-failure-as-rio-poised-to-set-no-new-targets-or-timetables-7870096.html?origin=internalSearch via @Independent
  15. Tons of people waiting for @UN SG to launch his new Zero Hunger Challenge - Will @eu2012dk be here? #rioplus20 #hunger #RightsRio
  16. I hope that in the Conference RIO + 20 the human rights are to the first place for the future of the humanity.
  17. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Human rights vital in legal strategy to protect planet-UN rights chief Pillay told judges #Rioplus20 http://pic.twitter.com/EBA1hQvr
  18. UNrightswire #RightsRio: GreenEconomy must put people & their rights, rather than govt power/corporate profit at centre - #Pillay #Rioplus20
  19. @ActionaidDK w DK foreign minister Søvndal on BRICS new role: human rights & PCD key! #rioplus20 #RightsRio http://pic.twitter.com/nVFVXqfs
  20. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio means full accountability of public & private sectors to people as holders of rights, end to discrimination-Pillay #Rioplus20
  21. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Only people-centred & rights based dev is truly sustainable & #FutureWeWant-UN rights chief told world leaders @ #Rioplus20
  22. RT @UNrightswire: #RightsRio: Women empowerment, their rights & meaningful participation in decision making must be assured in #FutureWeWant -Pillay

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