Mudanças climáticas

Hurricane Sandy: at General Assembly, UN chief highlights challenges and lessons learned

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 09, 2012 In a briefing to the General Assembly, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the world body’s challenges, responses and lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy, while also reiterating his call for more action in regard to climate change. “Storms and emergencies pose great tests and challenge. They may bring out the best in […]

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Forced migration in the 21st century: urbanised and unending

Published in Wednesday October 17th, 2012 In In the media

October 16, 2012 More than 70 million people have been uprooted across the world, and an increasing number will never go home More than 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes because of conflict, political upheaval and disasters, as well as by climate change and development projects, and are now living as […]

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600,000 Persons Displaced in Kogi State, in Nigeria

Published in Wednesday October 10th, 2012 In In the media

October 9, 2012 Over 600, 000 people were displaced by the flood disaster, which ravaged nine local government areas of the Kogi State. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Yabaji Bologi, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Lokoja, said according to the latest report released by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) about 344 communities […]

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Floods Affect Tens of Thousands in East Africa

Published in Tuesday October 9th, 2012 In In the media

October 8, 2012 Above-average seasonal rains in parts of the East and Horn of Africa have affected tens of thousands of people, displacing families and restricting access to many in need, say humanitarian officials. The rains, coming ahead of a possible El Niño event, have prompted fears of further flooding. According to a Famine Early […]

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Favela as a sustainable model

Published in Wednesday July 11th, 2012

Sustainability principles already exist in Rio’s favelas, but they are so organic that they go unnoticed. Launched at Rio+20 by CatComm.org, the short film “Favela as a Sustainable Model” aims to initiate a global dialogue around the qualities inherent in informal settlements, particularly consolidated ones like those in Rio, and the potential lessons they offer towards a sustainable urbanization. Watch the video bellow (in Portuguese, with English subtitles):

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Guides and leaflets on forced evictions are reprinted for distribution. Also learn more about the Rio +20 – Newsletter # 22

Published in Monday June 18th, 2012


From June 13th to June 22nd, Rio de Janeiro will host the Rio +20, a United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. At the occasion, Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will take part in some debates and events. Still in the same month, the Rapporteur will attend the international colloquium “Cities are us” in Coimbra University, Portugal. In addition, next month, the Rapporteur will make available leaflets and guides on forced evictions, which have been reprinted. Also in July, from 5th to 13th, the Rapporteur will go on a mission to Rwanda.

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Rio+20: It’s time to change perceptions on Rio’s favelas

Published in Monday June 11th, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Since 2004, in partnership with established community organizations, Catalytic Communities has been offering Educational Community Visits to journalists, activists, development researchers, government officials, city planners and architects wanting a deeper and more engaging experience of Rio de Janeiro and its favelas. If you or colleagues plan to be in Rio for the Rio+20 UN Conference […]

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Triad United States, Canada and China boycott minimum possibilities of advances in the Rio +20

Published in Wednesday June 6th, 2012 In In the media

June 6, 2012 United States, Canada and China, with occasional support from other countries (like Russia), depending on the situation, are boycotting the minimum possible Rio +20 conclude with concrete progress in terms of measures to reverse the global environmental crisis. The boycott of these countries was evident in the third round of informal negotiations […]

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Rio+20: “No global goals without accountability” – an open appeal from over 20 UN experts

Published in Monday March 19th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

Geneva, 19 March 2012 In an open letter to world Governments, a group of 22 UN independent human rights experts called on States to incorporate universally agreed international human rights norms and standards with strong accountability mechanisms into the UN Rio+20 sustainable development conference’s goals, as the Rio+20 first round of informal-informal negotiations began today in […]

Open letter from the HRC Special Procedures mandate holders on the Rio+20 summit

Published in Monday March 19th, 2012

In an open letter to the States negotiating the outcome document of the Rio+20 summit, the mandate holders of the Human Rights Council Special Procedures called on them to incorporate international human rights norms and standards. They also reminded them that accountability should be at the core of such document; therefore, Rio+20 should ground global […]