Reports and Documents

The theme of the Rio + 20 Conference was "Green economy in the context of sustainable development and eradication of poverty" and it has not been possible to the find common ground in the serious differences over what constitute economic growth and human wellbeing – ‘the future we want’.

Rio+20" is the short name for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012 -- twenty years after the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Rio+20 is also an opportunity to look ahead to the world we want in 20 years.

Supreme court order dated 02/07/2012 on tourism related activities within the reserved area and the buffer zone of the Jarawas.

Read text of the Supreme Court judgement that bans all commercial and tourism activity around Jarawa reserve in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. It bars hotels and resorts from operating within a five-kilometer (buffer zone around the Jarawa reserve, which is home to Jarawa tribals.

Even in countries with rapidly growing economies, large number of people still resort to open defecation: 626 million in India, 14 million in China & 7 million in Brazil finds this 2012 report which assesses the regional progress on eight MDGs.