Democracy Now! June 21, 2012

June 21, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

On Wednesday, 17-year-old environmental activist Brittany Trilford of Wellington, New Zealand, addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 UN Earth Summit. Democracy Now! also hears from Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and chair of Friends of the Earth International, and Severn Cullis-Suzuki, who became known as "the girl who silenced the world for six minutes" after she addressed delegates in Rio de Janeiro as a 12-year-old in 1992. Plus headlines, and more.

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Rio+20

Earth Summit

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development