PCCA responds to the Rio+20 zero draft

19 January 2012

Source: PSN

The Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA) has issued a response to the zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome document, setting out recommendations for ensuring a necessary focus on the importance of population dynamics and reproductive health and rights for sustainable development.

An important event

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) 'Rio+20' will take place in June this year. The conference will be an important event that is set to influence not only the sustainable development agenda, but also the international development agenda post-2015.

What about reproductive rights?

The PCCA is extremely concerned that the zero draft of the outcome document for the conference, released last week, contains no reference to reproductive health and rights, and very limited focus on population dynamics, gender dynamics and other important and related issues.

In response to the zero draft, the PCCA has produced a document setting out suggested changes and additions, in order to try and get the critical issues of population dynamics and reproductive health on the Rio+20 agenda.

Zero draft negotiations: Advocating for reproductive rights

Negotiations on the zero draft begin formally at the UN next Wednesday, 25 January, and to contribute to the process country UN missions are able to submit written input to the negotiations by Monday 23rd January.
The PCCA has circulated our recommendations widely, and organisations undertaking advocacy work on sexual and reproductive health and rights in relation to Rio+20 are invited to use the document as they wish, beginning with the forthcoming negotiations on the zero draft and thereafter.

Organisations are invited to share the document with the national delegations for Rio+20, and to share it widely with colleagues, partners and other stakeholders.

Download the recommendations and find out more

The PCCA recommendations and suggested revisions and additions are available to download below.

The recommendations are based on the PCCA’s full submission to the Rio+20 zero draft.

Do get in touch to share information about how you are making use of the document and your work on Rio+20, and to find out about possible opportunities for collaboration.