Chee Yoke Ling on Rights at Risk in the Rio+20 document
Channel: Robert Pollard
Date: 25/04/2012

An excellent overview by Chee Yoke Ling, Director, Third World Network, of the critical need to protect and strengthen rights in the Rio+20 outcome document in the face of efforts by some governments to roll back rights and principles agreed to at the 1992 Earth Summit as well as in other rights agreed to by Member States. The presentation was made at a  Roundtable on Rights at Risk in the Green Economy held on the 2nd day of the Second round of 'informal-informal' negotiations on the zero draft of outcome document for Rio+20