World leaders have a...chance to create a meaningful link between sustainable development and human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said...in a...statement targeting Environment and Foreign Affairs ministers...in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development...Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented human rights abuses in the context of infrastructure projects...[and] the operation of extractive industries that have pushed indigenous peoples off their traditional lands...Amnesty International’s Director of Demand Dignity Campaign Savio Carvalho said, “Unless governments as well as businesses and international institutions stop sacrificing human rights at the altar of development, marginalization, discrimination, and injustice will continue unabated.”