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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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![No Future Without Justice No Future Without Justice](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/future_justice_bis-160x110.jpg)
June 05 2012
No Future Without Justice
We need to build a new narrative of development and sustainability
that can permeate daily life, public and social arenas ...
By Reflection Group ◾ Social Watch ◾ Third World Network
![Time for a sustainable economic paradigm Wellbeing & Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5072214514_f2b3f3b399_bis-160x110.jpg)
May 23 2012
Time for a sustainable economic paradigm
We need nothing less now than a new sustainability-based economic
paradigm, with new progress measures, accounting systems ...
By Royal Government of Bhutan
![The Commons at the Core of our Next Economic Models? The Commons at the Core of our Next Economic Models?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/421118235_6b851b3551_zbis-160x110.jpg)
May 03 2012
The Commons at the Core of our Next Economic
Models?
The conceptual framework of a commons based economic model would
enable a series of narratives anchored in ...
By Helene Finidori
![World Happiness Report World Happiness Report](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cov_bis-160x110.jpg)
May 02 2012
World Happiness Report
These analisis put a clear limit on the extent to which rich
countries can become happier through the simple device of ...
By Jeffrey Sachs ◾ John Helliwell ◾ Richard Layard ◾ the Earth Institute
![Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the Commons? Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the Commons?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_40_33_bis-160x110.jpg)
April 25 2012
Planning for the Rio+20 Conference: Enter the
Commons?
It is impossible to think of commoning without thinking about a
social subject, a “community.” It is therefore easiest to ...
By David Bollier
![Transnational Corporations: Major Players in Human Rights Violations Sociétés transnationales: acteurs majeurs dans les violations des droits humains](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3192850778_a357a8c4eb_bis-160x110.jpg)
March 03 2012
Transnational Corporations: Major Players in
Human Rights Violations
To understand the system of dominant power in contemporary society,
it is necessary to understand the role that TNCs play within it.
By Europa-Third World Center
![Life beyond Growth Life beyond Growth](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4696015661_087804d802_bis-160x110.jpg)
March 03 2012
Life beyond Growth
After thousands of years of steadily increasing growth, it seems
possible that the human species is realizing that it will soon ...
By Institute for Studies in Happiness Economy and Society
![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
![Rio+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy Rio+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/greenwashing_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 22 2012
Rio+20 and the greenwashing of the global
economy
Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major
priority in the run-up to Rio+20.
By Olivier Hoedeman ◾ Transnational Institute
![From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan Order From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan Order](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4304374413_5154dc4b9f_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 22 2012
From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan
Order
Who gets what, when and why are no longer questions confined to
state silos, democratic or otherwise? Who makes the rules ...
By David Held ◾ Social Europe Journal