UNHCR Field Officer speaks about the urgent water needs in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. Children are walking up to 5km each day to collect water for them and their families.
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2010-12-15
2010-12-02
ANGELINA JOLIE " Where hope survives."
Since early 2001, renowned American actress Angelina Jolie has travelled the world with UNHCR to help refugees. She has worked with field staff and met with refugees in over 20 countries.
2010-09-13
The Line - Indigenous
The Line - Indigenous
Best-practice communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Where the broader campaign will engage young people in an online environment, the Indigenous social marketing campaign will encompass both a national and place-based approach, including targeted media, school-based engagement, and engagement of culturally appropriate intermediaries and influencers.
What exactly is The Line? And what happens when you cross it? This website is all about the line and the kind of behaviour that goes over it.
Sometimes there's no argument about where to draw the line. There are some things you should just never do. In Australia, we're united as a community about things that are unacceptable. Like violence, rape and abuse. These are things that should never happen, which is why we have laws against them.
On the up side, we're also pretty united about what it takes to create happy and healthy relationships. There are some things that always work, like loving and respecting each other, being considerate, listening, and trying to understand the other person's point of view.
So whilst everyone agrees that violence is crossing the line, sometimes the line can be blurry. With things like with bagging someone out to your mates, or texting someone 300 times a day. At the end of the day, where you draw the line is up to you. Explore the site and find a whole heap of stuff that will help you decide.
The Line campaign is managed by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA). It’s aimed at helping teenagers and young adults through a difficult time in their lives. The things they experience in relationships now can affect them long into adulthood, so it’s very important to help in every way we can and ensure they understand the importance of respectful relationships.
The campaign was a recommendation from Time for Action: the National Council’s Plan to reduce violence against Women and Children, announced in April 2009.
The campaign aims to increase the knowledge of young people about the components of a respectful relationship including communication, trust and consideration for others in developing and maintaining healthy relationships; the components and forms of intimate partner violence (including cyber bullying and harassment) and sexual assault; and the effects of violence on relationships. It also aims to increase the incidence of positive behaviours in relationships, including open communication across genders; listening to and valuing others’ opinions; and trust, consideration, courtesy and respect.
2010-09-01
Kристинa Dиaн Пaрмёновa
Achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals before 2015
WERI2011
Making Greener, Cleaner Nations
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Making Greener, Cleaner Nations
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2010-08-27
China biodiversity strategy and action plan
"Climate change and biodiversity conservation cannot be separated
since they are complementary to each other - biodiversity adaption to climate change is a necessary measure to protect biodiversity and an important approach to combat climate change."
Wu Xiaoqing, Vice-Minister, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection
Montreal, 26 August 2010 – China, which in 1994 became the first country to prepare a national biodiversity strategy and action plan (NBSAP), is now among a select group of countries that have initiated a new strategy and action plan in advance of the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit.
Sponsored by the EU-China Biodiversity Programme, an international forum on the new biodiversity strategy was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on 25-26 August with the
participation of more than 300 experts, including international non-governmental organizations and other Chinese partners. The meeting was opened by Vice-Minister Li Ganjie of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, who reiterated the importance China attaches to international cooperation.
“This international forum, with the participation of our distinguished foreign guests, is a demonstration of China’s commitment to promote international cooperation to address the biodiversity challenges at the national and international level,” said Vice-Minister Li.
The new biodiversity strategy and action plan for the period 2010-2030, now submitted for State Council approval, comprises eight strategic tasks, 29 actions and 11 safeguarding measures. It aims to increase by 2020 the area of biodiversity conservation in China from 15 to 18 per cent of the area of the country. The strategy was prepared with the full participation of all stakeholders, including representatives of civil society.
Sichuan Province is the first Chinese province to prepare a subnational biodiversity strategy and action plan.
“In spirit, in letter, and in content, the approach of China’s new twenty-year biodiversity strategy is remarkable and an example to be emulated by others,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
During his visit to Chengdu, Mr. Djoghlaf had a bilateral meeting with Vice Minister Li, and also met with the Vice Governor of Sichuan Province on the preparation of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, to be held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, from 18 to 29 October this year.
Read More :
COP 10 : AICHI-NOGAYA CITY BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT 2010
* EU-China Biodiversity Programme : UNDP Projects Summary,Challenge and achievement
* EU-China Biodiversity Programme (ECBP) 2006-2010:Strengthen biodiversity management for the conservation of specific ecosystems in China
* EU-China Biodiversity Programme (ECBP)Benefits :improvement of rangelands, water supplies become more dependent and the risks of downstream floods and droughts are diminished for the distant populations in the Yellow River basin.
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Israel 21c
Observations From Iraq, Iran, Israel , the Arab World and Beyond.
BABYLON & BEYOND
Etymological Dictionary of Grasses
Eight years of research were required to compile this elaborate interactive glossary of more than 13,000 terms. A multimedia introductory section explains the general rules of taxonomy and the naming of these organisms that are of key importance to agriculture.
Five Kingdoms A Multimedia Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
An expert overview of our planet’s biodiversity: the kingdoms of bacteria, protoctista, fungi, plants and animals.
An Interactive Education Tool for Secondary Schools and Undergraduate University Teaching
Mutations - Mutations - changes to the gene make-up of an organism - are hugely important. They are responsible for all the genetic variation in humans and other species thus allowing evolutionary changes to take place. Mutations is a comprehensive program in which the types, origins and consequences of both gene (DNA) and chromosome mutations are introduced.
Arthropods of Economic Importance Diaspididae of the World
Armoured scale insects are important agricultural, horticultural and forestry pests that are difficult to identify.
Yeasts of the World Morphology, physiology, sequences and identification
Yeasts are not only essential for the production of bread, beer and wine, but also play a major role in many more modern industrial processes, such as the production of enzymes, pigments, antioxydants etc. Moreover many yeasts are important as human pathogens, or as spoilage organisms in the food industry.
Interactive Guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi
Information on nearly 900 mushrooms found in Britain and the continental lowlands.
Fish Eggs and Larvae from Asian Mangrove Waters
Fish Eggs and Larvae from Asian Mangrove Waters
Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates
This treatise represents a comprehensive, up-to-date multifunctional dinoflagellate identification database featuring information on 69 species of harmful marine dinoflagellates and associated species present in the world's oceans. This database includes 44 toxin-producing species, brevetoxins, saxitoxins and ciguatoxins, and seven nuisance species that produce 'red tides' often resulting in massive sea life mortalities. In addition to the species description, information is available on the morphology, reproduction, ecology, toxicity, and habitat and locality for each species. A comprehensive glossary of more than 120 related scientific terms, and an extensive literature reference collection containing about 500 citations is included. There are nearly 600 figures illustrating every species via scanning electron micrographs (60%), light micrographs 120%), and/or line drawings (20%). The matrix-based identification key allows for multiple entry of characters to facilitate fast and effective diagnosis of a given species.
Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
World Biodiversity Database electronic series
Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros
Lemurs are threatened species and occur only on Madagascar and the Comoros. Detailed information is offered on this CD of 61 (sub) species and 34 higher taxa, with colour drawings, photos, film-shots and sounds.
DNA and Proteins
An Interactive Education Tool for Secondary Schools and Undergraduate University Teaching
Arthropods of Economic Importance Agromyzidae of the World
The Agromyzidae (mining flies) are a highly diverse dipteran family of exclusively phytophagous species. The world fauna consists of about 2,750 species. Of these, some 110 species are known to occur on cultivated crops. A number of species are of particular importance, especially Liriomyza and Ophiomya.
Chironomidae Larvae Key to the Higher Taxa and Species of the Lowlands of Northwestern Europe
The Chironomidae form a cosmopolitan family of small nematocerous flies represented by some 1,300 species in the West Palaearctic Region. Chironomid larvae are widely distributed and the vast majority have aquatic juvenile stages which, on average, comprise one third of the invertebrate species in freshwater habitats. This usual abundance, and the fact that a number of species are pollution-tolerant, make chironomidae ideal indicator species in monitoring the quality of surface waters.
Flora Malesiana: Orchids of the Philippines Volume 1
The Philippines have a unique and rich orchid flora of almost 1000 species, of which about 74% are found nowhere else in the world.
Birds of Europe 'The handy birding tool'
Compiled by European ornithologists, Birds of Europe is a comprehensive source of information on 447 bird species. Detailed descriptions, full colour illustrations, sound recordings of birdcalls, pictures of eggs, video clips, and interactive maps depicting the summer, year-round and winter distribution.
Interactive Flora of the British Isles A Digital Encyclopedia
An encyclopaedic work, compiled from authoritative sources, and presenting an overview of the entire flora of the British Isles. It encompasses more than 3,500 taxa and includes all native and naturalized plants, all crop plants and all recurrent casuals.
