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Johannesburg, 2 September, 2002.  

 

 

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Spin Doctors Prepare to Turn Failure Into Success

As the 10-day sustainable development summit heads into its final week, U.N. officials are giving it a spin to ensure the meeting lives up to expectations as Rio+10 - an improvement on the 1992 Earth Summit - rather than ending up Rio "minus" 10 - a backwards slide.

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Marches Highlight Breach in Trust between the Talkers and the Talked About

A teetering World Summit inside the Sandton Convention Centre -- the reasons volubly displayed outside where a sea of protestors arrived after a nine-kilometre long march.

The series of protest marches on Saturday highlighted the issues still cleaving apart the summit as ministers arrived to sign a final deal: how to define globalisation, how to deal with an unjust trade regime, how to deal with debt and what to do about social exclusion.

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Ministers to the Rescue

In a last-ditch attempt to save the Johannesburg summit, delegates have now turned to the 190 environment and development ministers to resolve a rash of seemingly irresolvable disputes, including those relating to globalisation, human rights, biodiversity, good governance, farm subsidies and market access.

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Social Change Needed to Aid Sustainable Development

Sustainable development in the face of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic essentially requires a process of social change, panellists at a session on how best to tackle the effects of the disease agreed

Access to benefits, security and economic empowerment must go together, said Kamogelo Lekubu-Wilderson from the South African NGO National Network on Violence Against Women. On another front, as opposed to male condoms, female-controlled protection methods need to be developed. “Otherwise we are doomed,” she said.

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NGOs Expect Agreements on Debt and Corporations

Civil society groups attending the Summit are not overly optimistic about any major decisions at the final week starting today, but have made it clear they would be happy to walk away with a deal pertaining to corporate accountability and debt relief for the world’s poorer nations.

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The Population Issue Absent at the Summit

Somewhere on the road between Rio and Johannesburg, the population issue must have gotten lost. In Rio, population commanded priority. It had its own chapter in the final document, and there were many references to its importance for sustainable development in many other chapters. Here in Johannesburg, the population issue, however, has been relegated to something minor and just mentioned in a couple of paragraphs.

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