Filmed by: Nimisha Bastedo A group of passionate, frustrated women gathered in Rio Centro on June 19th, protesting against the current state of the document. They proclaim that as far as women's rights are concerned, "it's worse than in1992"! They are especially disgusted at the fact that reproductive rights are not included in the text. The list of […]
By Nimisha Bastedo The discussion ended at the first Preparatory Committee meeting for Rio+20 back in May 2010. It ended when all of the people’s concerns were not implemented into that “zero-minus draft” that formed the basis of these negotiations. For twenty years, negotiators have led us through this bracketing and un-bracketing, and now they […]
By Nimisha Bastedo, Anna Odell, Clara de Iturbe and Lara Shirley Having watched the development of the issue of food security in the negotiating text from the original release of the Zero Order Draft to the current negotiating text, we have identified some key areas that are particularly relevant and/or contentious in the facilitator’s suggested […]
Rio+20 delegation member Nimisha Bastedo created this video about Earth in Brackets and Rio+20! Earth in Brackets at Rio+20 from [Earth in Brackets] on Vimeo. Earth in Brackets is a student organization based out of College of College of the Atlantic that engages with international environmental and sustainable development politics. We have been following the […]
This script was writen by a group of us for a video context in preparation to the Rio+20 conference. by Anjali Appadurai, Nimisha Bastedo, Anyuri Betegon, Graham Reeder, Nathan Thanki, Julian Velez, and Trudi Zundel. The video can be seen here. We are Earth in Brackets and the future we want requires radical change. Radical: Favoring […]