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11 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 July 2012: The 64th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the associated meetings of its Scientific Committee and other sub-groups took place in Panama City, Panama, from 11 June – 6 July 2012. The Commission addressed administrative and substantive matters, including aboriginal subsistence whaling, animal welfare, and climate change and cetaceans.
On the first day of the Commission Plenary, 2 July 2012, participants discussed the proposal to establish a...
02 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) held a training session on gender and climate change for Fiji officers from government ministries and NGOs, aimed at strengthening participants’ understanding of the gender analysis approach, and enabling them to apply gender analysis in the context of climate change. The training convened from 20-22 June 2012, in Suva, Fiji.
According to SPC, understanding the different roles of women, men, youth and children, is critical to...
29 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 June 2012: The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Secretariat has reported receiving 715 voluntary commitments, including commitments that will mobilize more than US$500 billion in action towards sustainable development. These include 52 government commitments, 82 UN/IGO commitments and 581 Major Group and civil society commitments. Sha Zukang, UNCSD Secretary-General, said the voluntary commitments complement the official outcome, and “are a major part of the...
26 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) have released a policy brief on gender policy, targeting Pacific delegates to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio +20). The brief seeks to ensure that delegates take into consideration gender equality commitments made at the regional and international levels.
Titled “Rio+20: Important issues for Pacific Island women,” the brief includes sections on: the...
25 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 June 2012: The third and final meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), Pre-Conference Informal Consultations Facilitated by the Host Country, and the UNCSD convened back-to-back in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 13-22 June 2012. During their ten days in Rio, government delegations concluded negotiations on the Rio outcome document, titled “The Future We Want.”
Representatives from 191 UN Member States and observers, including...
