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] “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 201 2 WWW. UNWLA.ORG 15 Panelists: Eliminate misery and poverty - related malnutrition. Empower women farmers, small holder farmers, young farmers , and indigenous people. Ensure their access to land, water and seed as well as their full involvement in public decision - making regarding food production and food and nutrition security. 7. Sustainable Energy for All Online: Take concrete steps to end fossil fuel subsidies. Audience: Establish ambitious targets for mov - ing towards renewable energy. Panelists: Scale up investments and political will to ensure universal, equitable and affordable ac - cess to sustainable energy services to all by the next decade through clear strategies and actions. 8. Water Online: Secure water supply by protecting bio - diversity, ecosystems , and water sources. Audience: Implement the right to water. Panelists: Adopt more ambitious global policies asserting the importance of integrated water, s a- nitation, energy and land use planning, de velop - ment, conservation and manag ement at all scales. Take into account specific gender and cultural needs and activate full and effective participation of civil society. 9. Sustainable Cities and Innovation Online: Promote the use of waste as a renewable energy source in urban environm ents. Audience: Plan in advance for sustainability and quality of life in cities. Panelists: Each Head of S tate should identify a sustainable city to develop a network for know - ledge sharing and innovation. Governments should channel resources to develop people - centered sustainable cities with timed and me a- sur able goals in a way that empowers local co m- munities and promotes equality and accountabil i- ty. 10. Oceans Online: Avoid ocean pollution by plastics through education and community collaboration. Audience : Launch a global agreement to save high seas marine biodiversity. Panelists: Take immediate action to develop a global network of international marine protected area s, while fostering ecosystem based fisheries management, with special consideration for small - scale fishing interests. Rafael ad Soler from the Ministry of E x- ternal Relations in Brazil, which oversaw the Su s- tainable Development Dialogues, provided in sigh t into the reasoning behind the separate sets of re c- ommendations: "... the online debates sub sidized the live discussion, which were followed by open debates with an average audience of over 1,300 people in each panel. Platform discussion, pane l- ists’ interve ntions, and audience debates were all part of this process, and it was felt that the three recommendations from each theme to be pr e- sented to the Heads of State and Govern ment had to reflect this synergy." These dialogues did not exclude opinions, but r ather merged them in a manner that focused on the greatest concerns from each population by topic. They were clearly an innovative process within the UN system and left many wondering if such a process will become a staple of future UN engagement with civi l society. According to Eric Anderson, Dialogues Facilitation Team member and official of the UNDP Bureau of Development Policy, the strategy for the dialogues "is a mech - an ism that will be further refined and potentially given a stronger, more formal ro le in t he inter - governmental process." If the participatory action strategy emp loyed in the dialogues becomes the UN norm , this would be the Rio Dialogues ' grea t- est accomplishment . But what about the dialogues' impact on the outcome of the Rio+20 Conference that was themed "The Future We Want"? Because I also serve on the Executive CoNGO Committee on Mental Health, I asked two of the panelists who were working to refine the conference report (which was to include information from the dial - ogue resp onses) to insert something on women’s mental health and well - being into the section where general health was mention e d. My sugges - tion was not incorporated into this dialogue list. Instead, it was incorporated into paragraph 283 of the UN official document . Other important is sues addressed at the conference included the human rights of women, with a specific focus on remedies and reparations for women who have been subjected to violence, as well as on the situation of women human rights defenders. An addit ional panel was organized to discuss the promotion and protection of human rights in a multicultural context — through co m- bating xenophobia, discrimination, and intole r- ance. Panelists had an informative exchange of views on and experiences with multicultural ism and discussed how to accommodate diverse cu l- tures at both the national and the international levels.
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