IBON International, an organization that promotes human rights and democracy, and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are organizing a Roundtable Discussion on Equity and Sustainability to be held today, March 23, in New York.
This event gathers representatives from civil society and governments, and experts from agencies like UN DESA (Department of Social and Economic Affairs), UNEP, UNCTAD (Conference on Trade and Development), and UNDP (UN Development Programme) to discuss the necessity of equity, fairness and justice in sustainable development, and the priority measures to be promoted to ensure equity within and between countries, and between generations.
IBON and ITUC organize this event during the negotiations in the hopes of influencing the final outcome document for Rio+20.
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) organizes the International Labour Conference (ILC) annually. Among other agenda items, general discussion at the 102nd session will take place on "Sustainable development, decent work and green jobs
The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food called for the post-2015 development agenda to be urgently refocused on equality, social protection and accountability, as the efforts of the UN Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals to draft post-2015 targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) entered a crucial phase.
The world’s leading retail labels commit to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh before the midnight deadline. The Accord now covers more than 1000 Bangladeshi garment factories. Implementation starts now!
Many of the major companies file their sustainability reports without conscience. And their approach to the workers whose labour fuels their profits is criminal.Ask any CEO if they would like their sons or daughters to work in the textile factories in Pakistan, the mines in the Congo, manufacturing plants in Central America, or as beer women in Cambodia, and they shudder.
The decision was adopted in response to EU Commission consultation on unconventional fossil fuels in Europe
