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The Rio + 20 were a landmark event in addressing serious environment & economic crisis affecting the world. The Earth summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came together to chart a road map for sustainable development and poverty eradication. But the developed and developing countries could not wipe out their differences and reach consensus on the definition of green economy. The new draft was in favour of developed countries .The current draft agreement is bereft of necessary vision and commitment for eradicating poverty and tackling environmental degradation to deliver sustainable development. The document is still empty and very weak in addressing daunting and grave concerns of women, youth and children, farmers, indigenous people and workers. It has failed in addressing the reproductive and sexual rights of women. There are no strong commitments to women's rights to land, property and inheritance. The main objective of this paper is to explore that how Rio +20 has become a victim of reduced commitments by developed countries to support the developing countries in the quest of their development. This paper is an academic endeavor to reflect that how the summit is a missed opportunity to tackle the most important environmental issues. There is an increasing rift between fashionable environmental issues focused on by rich countries and the prosaic needs of the rest of the world. The document is an offense to the future generation since the governments have agreed to maintain the status quo on so many issues that will severally effect the future generation. The document is a far cry from the ambitious response to world's mounting social, economic and environmental crisis. It has missed the opportunity to shift global agriculture onto a path towards ecological sustainability and justice for the hungry. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n3p0139

8. Internationales Symposium der Stiftung Ettersberg: Die Folgen der Revolution. 20 Jahre nach dem Kommunismus Weimar 6.-7.11.2009 Redaktion: Daniela Frölich Renommierte polnische, ungarische, tschechische, rumänische, österreichische und deutsche Wissenschaftler ziehen in diesem Band eine Zwischenbilanz der politischen, zivilgesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen, die sich seit dem Ende der kommunistischen Herrschaften 1989/90 vollzogen haben. Sie suchen Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Was ist aus den großen Erwartungen des Westens und den nationalen Utopien der Anfangszeit geworden? Wie weit konnten sich rechtsstaatliche Demokratie, zivilgesellschaftliche und pluralistische Parteienstrukturen in Ostmittel-und Osteuropa etablieren? Und mit welchen Belastungen aus der kommunistischen Vergangenheit haben die Länder bis heute zu kämpfen?

"This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when they co-produce knowledge in criminal justice contexts: in prisons and youth detention centres; with criminalised women; from practitioners' perspectives; and with First Nations communities. Co-production holds a promise: that people whose lives are entangled in the criminal justice system can be valued as participants and partners, helping to shape how the system works. But how realistic is it to imagine criminal justice 'service users' participating, partnering, and sharing genuine decision-making power with those explicitly holding power over them? Taking a sophisticated yet accessible theoretical approach, the authors consider issues of power, hierarchy and different ways of knowing to understand the perils and possibilities of co-production under the shadow of 'justice'. In exploring these complexities, the book brings cautious optimism to co-production partners and project leaders. This book provides a foundational text for scholars and practitioners seeking to apply co-production principles in their research and practice. With stories from Australia, the UK and Ireland, the text will appeal to the international community. For students of criminology and social work, the book's critical insights will enhance their work in the field"--

While the Catholic Church's official teaching on the environment presents a hopeful and comprehensive ecological ethic rooted in the goodness of creation and humanity's privileged role as co-creator, it does not sufficiently account for the violence of predation and humanity's necessary participation in it. James Nash's understanding of humans as altruistic, creative predators can further Catholic ecological ethics because it strikes a better balance between humanity's call to love creation and the moral ambiguity of the evolutionary process. Humans as creative predators suggests three new understandings of what ecological sacrifice could entail: 1) to see the death of every creature, even if a morally justifiable death, as a kind of sacrifice; 2) to recognize that ecological sustainability may demand dramatic and subversive shifts in behavior; and 3) to sacrifice our tendency to view nonhumans instrumentally by advocating a Biotic Bill of Rights.

In Transfers of Belonging , Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the 'right' parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.

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