More from the Rio+20 Conference

Hi Everyone,

You might remember that a couple weeks ago, Ann Manning shared with us an article about the Rio+20 conference (see that post)

This week, Molly Freeman follows up on that post with another article "Whither Macroeconomics? Sustainable Development From A Feminist Human Rights Perspective" written by Savi Bisnath, the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University.

Bisnath presents a very cogent perspective on the high level learnings and questions that emerged from this important international sustainability conference.

Here's a taste of  for you:

"Given economic policy and economic growth’s starring roles in the sustainable development narrative, we benefit from seeing macroeconomic policy as a means of either facilitating unsustainable development and inequality, or facilitating sustainable development and human rights. For the latter we will also need institutions and processes at the national and international levels directed at the realization of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, and democratic governance. In other words we need to replace the notion of the “invisible hand” with “standing shoulder to shoulder,” for the achievement of sustainable development for all and the realization of gender equity."

You can also download a pdf of this article here.

Thanks Ann and Molly!