FROM JOHANNESBURG Women's Statement Johannesburg Memo EARTH SUMMIT The World Summit on Sustainable Development (known as WSSD, Rio+10 or Earth Summit 2002) took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August -4 September 2002. It followed ten years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED, that took place in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Earth Summit 2002 process has already begun with round table, national and regional meetings and an initial PrepCom. A series of subregional preparatory meetings were held in Asia-Pacific in September and the Asia-Pacific regional PrepCom27-29 November 2001 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 2nd PrepCom 28 January - 8 February 2002,New York 3rd PrepCom 25 March - 5 April 2002, New York 4th Prepcom 27 May - 7 June 2002, Indonesia. DAWN Joint Research Coordinators on Sustainable Livelihoods, Ewa Charkiewicz and Yvonne Underhill-Sem worked on a critical feminist analysis of environmental issues, Sustainable Production and Consumption. Papers are published in a special DAWN supplement produced for WSSD. Ewa Charkieicz and Arlene Griffen are representing DAWN at the Johannesburg summit. Focus on Trade newsletter at http://focusweb.org WSSD special: Forget the sustainability, feel the profit! DAWN Declaration at PrepCom IV, Bali, Indonesia: Sustainable Development from a Feminist Perspective Girona Declaration - launching on 27 May at the Bali PrepCom and summarising the debates at the strategy session "Rio+10 and beyond: Strategies Against the Greenwash of Corporate Globalisation", 18-20 March 2002. DAWN Informs May 2002 contains a series of articles about the WSSD process. Seeking a Sustainable Alternative, discussion points from DAWN Joint Research Coordinator on Sustainable Livelihoods, Ewa Charkiewicz, on possibilities for using Sustainable Development as an available and institutionalised route towards alternative visions (DAWNInforms November 2001) Resources: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/ http:// www.iisd.ca/ http://www.jakartapeoplesforum.org http://www.iisd.ca/wssd/portal.html http://www.focusweb.org/