Cuba
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 July 2011: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) held a debate on the human right to water and sanitation, during which a number of speakers highlighted that climate change constitutes an obstacle to the enjoyment of this right, stressing the particular situations of small island low-lying States.
The debate took place on 27 July 2011, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. In his opening address, Joseph Deiss, UNGA President, recalled that, in July 2010, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The Baltic Sea, bar Russian waters, has been designated as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA).
Eight Baltic Sea nations – Denmark, Estonia Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden – agreed to establish stricter environmental laws in their waters at the recent 51st session of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee, which met from 29 March to 2 April in London. According to news reports, Russia opposed the move as it could limit the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The XIV Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) took place from 17-19 August 2004 in Durban, South Africa.
Ministers addressed developments in the international situation, reviewed implementation of decisions taken at the XIII NAM Conference of Heads of State held in Kuala Lumpur in February 2003, and prepared for the next NAM Summit, which is scheduled to take place in Havana, Cuba in September 2006. The meeting concluded with a Ministerial Declaration that flagged concern at...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 July
2008: Opening the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) discussion on ‘mainstreaming
a gender perspective into all UN policies and programmes, women and
development, and the advancement of women,’ Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, noted the particular vulnerability of
women to climate change and the food crisis.
Mayanja outlined steps taken by the UN system in
mainstreaming gender equality, including with the creation...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 April 2010: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has published a document (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.2) including additional views on which the Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) may draw on in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among parties. The document includes 18 submissions from parties.
The 18 submissions are from: Argentina; Belarus; Bolivia; Botswana; Egypt; Ghana; Grenada, on behalf of the Alliance of...
