Peoples' Rights, Planet's Rights: Holistic Approaches to a Sustainable Population
by Suzanne York
As the title reflects, I believe that the best approaches to the serious issues facing
our world must be inclusive and grounded in fairness, equality and respect for all life.
In a nutshell, Peoples' Rights, Plants's Rights recommends focusing on the following issues to create a path to a sustainable population:
* Women's Rights - providing voluntary family planning services to the 222 million women in developing countries who want family planning services but do not have access to contraceptives;
* Youth Rights - providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education to empower the 3 billion young adults under the age of 25 (of which about 1.2 billion are adolescents just entering their reproductive years);
* Rights of Nature - shifting from treating nature as property by recognizing the legal right of ecosystems to exist and flourish;
* Rethinking the Economy - accepting that endless economic growth is unsustaninable and more efficient global indicators of human and environmental well-being should be adopted.
you can read the full article at http://howmany.org/Articles/PeopleandPlanetRights-IPS.pdf
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