Johannesburg
'Rio+10' - 'The Earth Summit' 2002:
26 August to 4 September

Send your vision for a healthier planet to Jo'burg.
Click on the dove to email WEN.

In 1992 the United Nations held the first Earth Summit, or Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio, Brazil. The Summit agreed Agenda 21, a wide ranging programme of actions undertaken at a local, national and international level, and established the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development to monitor and report on implementation. This year the World Summit on Sustainable Development, also known as 'Rio +10' and 'The Earth Summit' will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, to review progress and decide on further implementation of Agenda 21.


Agenda 21 is very much to do with women, from women's human rights to globalisation and access to resources and the impact of environmental degradation on women's and children's health. Strategies for achieving these goals say women should be involved in all decision- and policy-making at local, national and international levels. Many of you will be aware of your own local authority's work on Local Agenda 21.


What are your visions for a healthier planet?

WEN is sending rice paper doves enscribed with women's wishes for a healthier planet to Johannesburg 2002 - see press release for information on our recent launch of Action for a Healthier Planet with doves.


WEN has contributed to a statement of priorities for the summit on behalf of European Women. WEN co-led a workshop to agree a statement on health issues, at a conference in Prague in March.


E-mail your vision to info@wen.org.uk

Useful websites & more info:

The Johannesburg Summit The offical United Nations Website for the Summit.

The Worldwatch Institute has produced an interactive web-based timeline and resource guide -The Path To Johannesburg.

Women's Environment and Development Organization WEDO is an international advocacy network working with women's groups and networks worldwide involving women in contributing to the outcomes of the WSSD through Women's Action Agenda for a Healthy and Peaceful Planet 2015 and Major Groups Dialogue Paper on Agenda 21 Implementation.

Women in Europe for a Common Future
International Network of Women for Health, Environment and Sustainable Development - bringing together women from Western, Central and Eastern Europe, CIS countries and Central Asia, to express their concerns and give their priorities to the EU governments and the other World Leaders preparing for the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).

Women's Institute What Women Want
The WI is collecting postcards of women's views of a future world to be compiled into a report for Jo'burg.

Earth Summit 2002 An international network and forum on sustainable development which has promoted outcomes from the first Earth Summit in 1992.

The International Institute for Environment and Development IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development.

ANPED
Northern Alliance for Sustainability.