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United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Johannesburg August 26 to September 4, 2002.


It has been ten years since the historic "Earth Summit," the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or Earth Summit, an 11-day meeting held in June, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss the global conflict between economic development and environmental protection.  (UNCED UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, June 1992) ) held in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil
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 in 1992. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development (UN)
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), unofficially known as Rio+10, brings together governments, UN agencies, civil society organisations, multilateral financial institutions and business to assess global change since 1992. Governments will review their achievements (or failures) in supporting the Rio agreements on sustainable development, biodiversity and climate change.

In a world where food, water, shelter, sanitation, energy, and health services are less secure for the majority of the world's population than they were just ten years ago, the issues under debate at the WSSD are more crucial than ever. For African women, the concept of sustainable development, as framed in the WSSD, positions development perspectives through globalisation. This is problematic because research has emerged that women have experienced globalisation negatively, There is increased feminisation Noun 1. feminisation - the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration
feminization
 of poverty. The privatisation of social services has increased, rather than decreased, women's work as more African people fall through the social safety nets. Linked to the New Partnership for Africa's Development New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is an economic development program of the African Union. The NEPAD was adopted at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.  (NEPAD NEPAD New Partnership for Africa's Development ), the framework offers market-oriented economies that are not compatible with the protection of women's rights and do not promote gender equality in Africa. The WSSD must promote sustainable development that incorporates human development and gender equality into its definition and implementation.

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 des Nations Unles sur le Devoloppement Durable: Johannesburg. Afrique du Sud du 26 Aout au 4 Septembre 2002

Dix ans sont deja passes depuis le fameux "Sommet de la Terre"--la Conference des Nations Unles sur l'Environnement et le Developpement qui a eu lieu a Rio de Janeiro en 1992. Le Sommet Mondial pour Le Developpement Durable (SMDD SMDD Storage Module Disk Drive ), officleusement connue sous le titre titre

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 Rio + 10, regroupe des gouvernements, des agences de l'ONU, des Organisations de la Societe Civile et des institutions financieres et commerciales multilatereles, dans le but d'evaluer les changements realises au niveau mondial depuis 1992. Les Gouvernements reviseront leurs realisations (ou echecs) en soutenant les accords dans les domaines du developpement durable, la bio--diversite et les changements climatiques.

Dans un monde ou la nourriture, l'habitat, les installations sanitaires, l'energie et les soins de sante sont moins surs pour la majorite de la population mondiale qu'ils ne l'etalent Il n'y a que dix ans, les problemes a debattre au SMDD sont plus cruciaux que jamais. Pour les femmes africaines, le concept du developpement durable tel qu'il est exprime dans le SMDD place les perspectives de developpement a l'interieur de la mondialisation economique. Et ceci est un point de divergence, car des recherches ont prouve que les femmes ont fait une experience negative de la mondialisation. L'on observe une croissance de la feminisation de la pauvrete. La privatisation de services sociaux a augmente le travail des femmes au lieu de le diminuer, etant donne que plusieurs peuples africains ne disposent pas de securite sociale. Associe au Nouveau Partenariat pour le Developpement de l'Afrique, la structure offre les memes economies de marche qui sont incompatibles avec la protection des droits de femmes et ne promeuvent pas l'egalite entre les sexes en Afrique. Le SMDD doit promouvoir un developpement durable qui integre le developpement de l'etre humain et l'egalite entre les sexes dans sa definition et sa mise en oeuvre.
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