In 1992, 12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki became known as "the girl who
silenced the world for six minutes" after she addressed delegates in Rio
de Janeiro during the summit’s plenary session. We air Cullis-Suzuki’s
historic address and speak to her from the Rio+20 summit, which she
comes back to now as a veteran international environmental campaigner
and mother of two. "Twenty years, later the world is still talking about
a speech — a six-minute speech — that a 12-year-old gave to world
leaders," Cullis-Suzuki says. "Why? It is because the world is hungry to
hear the truth and it is nowhere articulated as well as from the mouths
of those with everything at stake, which is youth."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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