late 1989 it was decided that the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), or the Earth Summit, would
be held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—20 years after the first UN
Conference on Human Environment in 1972 in Stockholm. The report Our Common Future, compiled by the
Independent Commission on Environment and Development and chaired by then Prime
Minister of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland, was used as a conceptual and
political basis for the Earth Summit. Environmental issues had been on the UN
agenda since the Stockholm Conference, but women were seldom taken into account
in connection with these, and their participation in debates on the use of
natural resources and environmental protection was rare….To Read More…..
My Take - Exactly what do women's rights have to do with the environment? The real answer lies in the deep unwarranted desire of the left to engineer the lives of everyone on planet Earth. We really do need to get that!
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