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Rio+20: faith based organisations keep the hope alive

23/06/2012 Advocacy, Argentina, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxk_4tz4NY8&feature=youtu.be] By Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Director of Policy and Advocacy It has become a tradition that faith based organisations host a side event together at major global conferences, like at the UN conferences on climate change in Cancun and Durban. Over 120 people gathered in one of the last of the side events at ...

Rio+20: conference reflections

22/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Brazil, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

By James Stella On entering the Rio+20 Conference centre, the participants are instantly greeted by an enormous blue coloured digital billboard displaying the extensive list of side events scheduled for the day. Listed on the board one will find the name, location and time of the event. With events scheduled around the clock, from 9:00 ...

Rio+20: Solidarity Economics

21/06/2012 Advocacy, Argentina, Blog, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Espanol Solidarity can be the currency of an alternative economy agreed Caritas representatives at a panel event during Rio+20 Summit, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in the Brazilian capital. Caritas Brazil, France, Peru and Costa Rica and other staff of the Catholic confederation of aid agencies reflected on how to democratize ...

Dark clouds gather over Rio+20

21/06/2012 Advocacy, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

By Roeland Scholtalbers, CIDSE Media and Communication Officer (Caritas and CIDSE Catholic networks are working together in Rio) In Rio de Janeiro, the differences between Copacabana and the Rocinha favela exemplify what is wrong with our world, but hopes that Rio+20 will result in bold action are fading. The bustling beaches of Copacabana and the ...

Rio+20: Development through Solidarity

19/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Caritas hosted a side event on the 18 June on ‘Achieving Sustainable Development through Solidarity Economy: Outstanding Issues and Perspectives of “Converting” Economy into Ecology’. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poWB-Pt-cuE&feature=plcp]

Rio+20: Joining the crowds in the Samba City

19/06/2012 Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Rio+20 round-up

19/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

By James Stella On Sunday, 19 June, Caritas members attending the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development enjoyed a memorable day when they participated in a Holy Mass with Archbishop Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. Dedicated to the patron saint of Rio de Janeiro, St. Sebastian, the ...

Church hopes Rio +20 Summit will find path towards development

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

With the planting of a tree, the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, with bishops and priests from the Latin American church, began Mass in the Cathedral of St. Sebastian in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The faithful prayed for a renewed commitment of world leaders to work for the elimination of poverty and the protection of ...

High hopes, low expectations for Rio+20

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America by Caritas Communications

By Roeland Scholtalbers, CIDSE Media and Communication Officer (CIDSE is working with Caritas at the Rio Summit), from Rio de Janeiro. We have seen shy attempts by politicians to mend things, to address global challenges like poverty and climate change together. But our carbon-driven global economy has marched on in the meantime, increasing material well-being ...

Caritas at Rio + 20

12/06/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro on 20-22 June is expected to represent a new stage in the political process that began back of 1972. Ever since the UN Stockholm Conference on Human Environment, political leaders have been discussing how to reconcile human development needs with environmental ...