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ADB
pulls out of controversial coal project in Bangladesh (5/08/08)
“PROJECT KALEIDOSCOPE” REPORT" to improve working conditions in Corporate Supply
Chains released (5/08/08)
Safeguarding
Food Production - Take Action!(5/01/08)
US Senate
Passes Resolution calling on President Mugabe to Step Down. (5/01/08)
Zambian Oblates
Attend the Africa Faith and Justice Network 25TH Anniversary Conference
(04/29/08)
Bishops
demand LTTE quit Madhu shrine (4/24/08)
Oblate Delegation
to UN pictured outside the UN Building (04/24/08)
UN
meet starts with call to protect rights of indigenous people (04/24/08)
OMI Delegation
Attends UN Forum on Indigenous People (04-24-08)
Earth Day concert at
novitiate in Godfrey (04/24/08)
Roadside
Bomb Kills Sri Lankan Priest (04/21/08)
April 2008 issue of JPIC
News is available (4/09/08)
UN Vatican Rep
Calls for Action on MDGs (04/07/08)
MD
Commission on Capital Punishment Approved (04/07/08)
Action Alert: Jubilee Act
Moves to Floor Vote (4/04/08)
Action Alert:
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Standing with the People of Zimbabwe: Oblate JPIC Statement on the Zimbabwe
Elections (4/04/08)
Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops Commission for Social Affairs issues letter on
the Environment (03/18/08)
Oppose the SAVE Act (3/18/08)
Zimbabwe 2008
elections:
The Prospect of Intimidation and Violence (3/14/08)
Free
Trade Agreement with Colombia Opposed by Religious Community
(3/07/08)
Investors File Record Number of Global Warming Resolutions with U.S. Companies
(3/06/08)
Sri Lanka
Civil Society Groups decry deteriorating Human Rights situation (3/06/08)
Sri Lanka: A Country
in Search of Its Identity, by Oswald Firth, OMI (3/06/08)
Zambia: International
Mining Companies Threaten legal Action against Government over New Taxes
(2/15/08)
Africa and
the Bush Administration (2/14/08)
Put the Millennium
Development Goals in your Lenten Observance (2/4/08)
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(1/29/08)
Mgr Casale Sept. 2007 Congressional Testimony on Human Trafficking
(1/29/08)
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Oblate Priest killed
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US
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UN Secretary
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Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (12/10/07)
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Innocence: another Inmate
exonerated, after 16 Years on Death Row (12/07/07)
USG/USIG and
Caritas issue Joint Declaration on Human Trafficking (12/07/07)
Immigration Action: Oppose the
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Root Causes of Migration; one-page handout from MD Catholic
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Inuit
leader wins UN award for activism against climate change
UN News service
20 June 2007 – An Inuit activist whose tireless advocacy has raised
global awareness about the devastating impact of climate change on
Arctic communities will receive a prestigious lifetime achievement award
from the United Nations today.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a 53-year-old political leader representing
indigenous communities in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia and a
nominee for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, will receive the Mahbub ul Haq
Award for Excellence in Human Development from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
at the 2007 Human Development Awards this evening at UN Headquarters in
New York.
“Ms. Watt-Cloutier' s life work is what human development is all about:
helping people live healthier lives so they can realize their full
potential,” said Kevin Watkins, Director of the Human Development Report
Office, UN Development Programme (UNDP). “Her leadership and advocacy on
behalf of Arctic communities have advanced the cause of human
development around the world. Her strength and dedication should inspire
us all.”
Born in a small village in Canada ’s frozen north, Ms. Watt-Cloutier
helped launch one of the world's first international legal actions on
climate change, contending that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions from
the United States violated Inuit cultural and environmental rights.
“The world must pay attention to what's happening to Arctic communities
because we are the early warning system for the rest of the planet,” she
said.
In addition to her work on climate change, she was an instrumental force
behind a global campaign to ban industrial toxins that can cause
infertility, cancer and brain damage.
The award Ms. Watt-Cloutier will receive was created in honour of Mahbub
ul Haq, the pioneer who founded the global Human Development Report, an
independent annual research project commissioned by UNDP to analyze
major issues confronting humanity and recommend policy changes. The 2007
Human Development Report, due out in early November, focuses on climate
change.
Human Development Awards are presented only every two to three years.
This year, awards were also presented to research teams from Costa Rica
, China , Chhattisgarh (a state of India ), Guinea-Bissau and the
Asia-Pacific region for excellence in human development policy analysis
and advocacy.
This report can be found at:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22973&Cr=climate&Cr1=change |
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