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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
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![Statement of Civil Society in Latin American and the Caribbean on Rio+20 Posicionamiento de la sociedad civil de América Latina y el Caribe sobre Río+20 y la economía verde](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5623626426_5e0a5df12b_bis-160x110.jpg)
June 22 2012
Statement of Civil Society in Latin American
and the Caribbean on Rio+20
The imposition of the green economy in Latin America and the
Caribbean will be going far behind the achievements of the ...
By Meeting for a transformative agenda in Rio+20 and beyond
![Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit La Sostenibilidad del Desarrollo a 20 Años de la Cumbre para la Tierra](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/4234357542_31d2720a68_bis-160x110.jpg)
June 08 2012
Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the
Earth Summit
This report, written from the Latin American and Caribbean
perspective, describes the progress made and the gaps that remain ...
By Cepal
![How people living in extreme poverty view the term sustainable development How people living in extreme poverty view the term sustainable development](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5137442477_8a999a3392_zbis-160x110.jpg)
June 06 2012
How people living in extreme poverty view the
term sustainable development
Synthesis of interviews carried out with families living in extreme
poverty in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil ...
By ATD Fourth World
![Ethics in Concordian economics Ethics in Concordian economics](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/habitants_bis3-160x110.jpg)
February 19 2012
Ethics in Concordian economics
Ethics is a fundamental construct of the theory of distribution of
ownership rights and this theory lies at the very core of ...
By Carmine Gorga
![Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable Development Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable Development](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4549085259_c991174239_bis-160x110.jpg)
February 03 2012
Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable
Development
Socioeconomic Democracy is a theoretically consistent and
practically implementable socioeconomic system wherein there ...
By Center for the Study of Democratic Societies ◾ Robley E. George
![Wealth, power and the future of the planet Wealth, power and the future of the planet](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tb_php_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 11 2011
Wealth, power and the future of the planet
Concentration of wealth is unjust and confers undue advantage to
those who then use this wealth primarily to usurp the ...
By International Forum on Globalization ◾ Jack Santa Barbara
![Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization Caminos y descaminos hacia una Biocivilización](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4855913610_a9f673cdea_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 09 2011
Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization
Thinking the basis of a new civilization and becoming part of the
long process of social dismantlement and of reconstruction ...
By Cândido Grzybowski
![The Illusion of a Green Economy A ilusão de uma economia verde](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/270904893_1ed4514371_obis-160x110.jpg)
November 17 2011
The Illusion of a Green Economy
To ensure production of the goods necessary for life, in a way which
neither stresses nor degrades nature, something more than the ...
By Leonardo Boff
![Rio2012: Latin America defends sustainability and rejects “green economy” Rio2012: América Latina rechaza el polémico principio de la “economía verde”](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sala-160x110.jpg)
October 22 2011
Rio2012: Latin America defends sustainability
and rejects “green economy”
Following three days of deliberations, the representatives examined
the gaps still remaining since the 1992 Earth Summit for ...
By Editorial Team
![Rio+20: Resisting market environmentalism and strengthening rights and social-environmental justice Rio+20: Resisting market environmentalism and strengthening rights and social-environmental justice](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/5537238750_80e2cffbab_b-160x110.jpg)
August 19 2011
Rio+20: Resisting market environmentalism and
strengthening rights and ...
Rio+20 therefore, has the potential to be a moment to, at the same
time, assess the successes and failures of the past two decades ...
By Federation of Organism for Social Help and Education