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Integrating a Human Rights Framework
For Sustainable Development
And Our Common Future

APRIL 1, ROOM 4, UN Lower level, 1.15 to 2.45

(see also Workshop on April 3)

The following issues will be discussed:

    • How can the implementation of Agenda 21 be strengthened through existing human rights norms and standards? How can human rights be integrated as a platform for action in the CSD process?
    • How can a human rights based approach to eliminating poverty enhance the impact of sustainable development policies and programs at the national and international level?
    • What are the linkages between the environment and human rights?
    • In what ways can human rights organizations partner with sustainable development stakeholders?
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    • How can human rights education be integrated into the sustainable development agenda and visa versa?

Panelists:

Minar Pimple - PDHRE/ INCHRITI – Int’l NGO Committee On Trade and Investment
Felix Dodds - Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future
Vicky Tauli Corpuz - TEBTEBBA
Shulamith Koenig - PDHRE
Davinder Lamba - Mazingera Insitutue / INCHRITI

Being organized by:

PDHRE, the People’s Movement for Human Rights Education
526 W 111th Street, suite 4E, New York, NY 10025
Tel: 1-212-749-3156 * Fax: 1-212-666-6325 * Email: pdhre@igc.org  * Web: www.pdhre.org 

"Respect for human rights is broadly accepted as a pre-condition for sustainable development, that environmental protection constitutes a pre-condition for the effective enjoyment of human rights protection, and that human rights and the environment are interdependent and inter-related."

UN Meeting of Experts on Human Rights and the Environment, January 15, 2002

For more information, please contact PDHRE:
The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE)
526 West 111th Street, New York, NY 10025
tel: 212.749-3156; fax: 212.666-6325; e-mail: pdhre@igc.org