Sustainable Development Dialogues 2 – Work & Migrations

16. juni 2012

Unemployment, decent work and migrations – Sustainable Development Dialogues 1, Rio+20, 16.06.2012. (stadig er kun den portugisiske udgave tilgængelig, så denne video er fra den efterfølgende pressekonference).

Link til efterfølgende pressekonference.

Som del af Rio+20-konferencenen afholdes der i dagene 16.-19. juni en meget spændende serie af Sustainable Development Dialogues, som prøver at nå ind til benet af begrebet bæredygtig udvikling.
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Participants

Mr. Jonathan Watts – The Guardian
Ms. Carmen Helena Ferreira Foro – Secretary for Women Rural Workers, National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG)
Mr. Daniel Iliescu – President, National Union of Students
Ms. Deborah Wince-Smith – President, The Council on Competitiveness
Ms. Ivana Savic – Co-ordinator, CSD Youth Caucus
Dr. James K. Galbraith – Professor, Texas University
Dr. Lu Hulin – Professor, Beijing University
Mr. Maurice Strong – Secretary-General, Stockholm Conference and Rio Conference
Ms. Nana-Fosu Randall – Founder and President, Voices of African Mothers (VAM)
Ms. Sharan Burrow – Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation
Mr. Peter Bakker – President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Top 10 Recommendations

For hver af de 10 dialoger er der forud opstillet 10 anbefalinger, hvor dialogerne har til formål at indskrænke antallet til tre. Den ene anbefaling fastlægges ved online afstemning med inddragelse af de virtuelle deltagere (typisk mere end 1 mio. afgivne stemmer), den anden fastlægges af panelet ved dialogernes afslutning, den tredje afgøres ligeledes ved afstemning fra salen.

De 10 anbefalinger er:

◊ Ensure all jobs and workplaces meet minimum safety and health standards.
◊ Advance women’s empowerment principles as a way to advance the sustainable development agenda.
◊ Governments to commit to a Social Protection and Decent Work for all goal by 2030, including access to health, unemployment, ill health, maternity, child protection and disabled people.
◊ Improve human capital by promoting access to health, including reproductive health, investiment in education and empowerment of women.
◊ Put education in the core of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
◊ Create a strategy for jobs and employment leveraging the green economy for investment, training and retraining for employability.
◊ Set national goals for green jobs based on assessments in terms of current and potential value, gender dimension, working conditions and other aspects of the decent work agenda.
Compel national governments to respect the human rights of migrants in Temporary Foreign Worker programs.
◊ Establish a mechanism under the United Nations, similar in function to the World Trade Organization, to negotiate a lowering of barriers to immigration and to allocate environmental migrants equitably among countries able to receive them.
◊ Include care for aging populations in the international framework for sustainable development.
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Final recommendations

◊ Put education in the core of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
◊ Commit to a Decent Work for All goal by 2030, including the right to bargain collectively, unemployment reduction, elimination of precarious work, gender equality at the workplace and promotion of green and decent jobs, taking into account the special needs of women and youth; as well as to a Social Protection for All goal by 2030, guaranteeing social protection, at least at the level of national floors, including minimum wages and guarantees for access to health care, and income support for unemployed, aged, disabled, children and pregnant women.
◊ Compel national governments to respect the human rights of all migrant workers and their families including those in Temporary Foreign Worker programs and those climate refugees who will be displaced by environmental impacts.
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De 10 Sustainable Development Dialogues

De i alt ti dialoger er en enestående mulighed for at høre begavede mennesker fra hele verden reflektere over bæredygtig udvikling – hvad det indebærer, og hvordan den kan implementeres. Men FNs webcast-system er ganske omfattende, så jeg har lagt den engelske udgave af de ti Sustainable Development Dialogues ind på bloggen her:

1) Sustainable development as an answer to the economic and financial crises.
2) Unemployment, decent work and migrations.
3) Sustainable development for fighting poverty.
4) The economics of SD, including sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
5) Forests.
6) Food and nutrition security.
7) Sustainable energy for all.
8) Water.
9) Sustainable cities and innovation.
10) Oceans.