Sustainable development

Sustainable development will only bear fruit if the future of the people living in the worst conditions is considered as a success criterion of all policies, whether in the Global North or South.

Sustainable Development Goals in the post-2015 framework

Side event for UNCSD Rio+20 Date: 13 June, 19.30-21.00, room P3-6 (capacity 300), Rio Centro.

Organising partners
Beyond 2015 (International Movement ATD Fourth World lead organizer for this event on behalf of the Beyond 2015 coalition), Government of Ireland, United Nations Millennium Campaign, United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS), CIVICUS

Eradicating extreme poverty, a must for sustainable societies

Thematic Social Forum: Capitalist Crisis, Social and Environmental Justice.

Human Rights need to be integrated in the Sustainable Development Agenda

Cristina Diez Saguillo has been a member of the International Movement ATD Fourth World’s full-time volunteer corps since 2003. Prior to that she worked in the financial sector as a fund administrator and worked in grassroots projects with children and young people in poverty in disadvantaged urban areas of Spain. In 2010 she became the main representative of the organisation to the United Nations.

 
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Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated.
To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty.

Joseph Wresinski