UN Experts ask States to Include the Promotion of Human Rights in Rio+20
On March 19th, 2012, a group of 22 independent experts of the UN urged the governments to include the respect and the promotion of human rights among the objectives of the International Summit on durable sustainable development “Rio+20”, which will be held from the 20th to the 22nd of June 2012. The experts also expressed their fear that the complexity of the objectives would negatively influence their accomplishment.Rio+20 has to lay the basis for new strategic priorities which are meant to overcome the weaknesses of the MDGs by integrating the...