First Tar Sands Mine in US Faces Fierce Resistance in Utah via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Indigenous Organizers Bring Together Local People and Allies to Protest Proposed Pipelines Through Northern BC via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Low-income levels unchanged in Canada via Poverty News Blog
The statistics office of Canadian government says that low-income levels remain unchanged in Canada since 2008. The people considered to be poor in Canada is 9 percent of the population which amounts to three million people. Income levels for families are also unchanged since 2008. From the CBC, we read more about the latest statistics from Canada. Statistics Canada defines low-income as the level where a family spends 63 per cent or more of its income on food, clothing and shelter.The dollar figure for what constitutes low income varies by family size and by the size of the community but is based on spending patterns studied in 1992 and adjusted each year since then for inflation.About 606,000 children age 17 or under lived in low-income families in 2008. That also was unchanged from...
Refuge: Focus on Refugee Status Determination (RSD) via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Another issue of Refuge is now available online in full-text. The theme of vol. 25, no. 2 (2008) is "Building a Better Refugee Status Determination System." A number of the articles were first presented at the 2008 conference, "Best Practices for Refugee Status Determination." The editorial provides an overview of the current status of RSD and an introduction to the articles.Contents include:Building the Infrastructure for the Observance of Refugee Rights in the Global South Refugee Status Determination in Brazil: A Tripartite Enterprise A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa An Evaluation of South Africa's Application of the OAU Refugee Definition Responsibility Sharing or Shifting? "Safe" Third Countries and International Law Canada's Refugee Status Determination...
20 Days To The G20…20 Reasons The Youth Climate Movement Must Get Organized! via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Canada will pledge 1 billion for maternal health via Poverty News Blog
In a story that came out over the weekend, Canada announced it's development goal as host of the G-8 and G-20 meetings. The host country usually sets the agenda and a goal it would like to achieve during the meetings. Canada has said that it would pledge one billion dollars to fund maternal and child health, and will ask the other member countries to pledge big money as well.From the Globe and Mail, we read more about the proposal and what may keep it from becoming a reality.Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced in January that improving the health of mothers and their children in developing countries would be his signature initiative as host of the G8 summit next month.Initially, the pitch was well received around the world. Concerns are on the rise that maternal health issues have...
RELEASE: Greenpeace Partners with Industry Logging Canadian Boreal Forests via Earth Blog
Along with ForestEthics and other foundation-dependent primary forest logging apologists, Greenpeace negotiates weak agreement that legitimizes continued old growth forest logging in exchange for vague promises of possible future protections. Old forest greenwashing must end.
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(Canada) - In what they gratuitously herald as the 'world's largest conservation agreement', twenty Canadian forestry companies and nine environmental organizations including Greenpeace have announced an agreement that will temporarily suspend for three years any new logging in 29 million hectares of Canadian boreal forest [search] about the size of Montana to plan for possible protections... RELEASE: Greenpeace Partners with Industry Logging Canadian Boreal Forests via Forest Protection Blog
Along with ForestEthics and other foundation-dependent primary forest logging apologists, Greenpeace negotiates weak agreement that legitimizes continued old growth forest logging in exchange for vague promises of possible future protections. Old forest greenwashing must end.
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(Canada) - In what they gratuitously herald as the 'world's largest conservation agreement', twenty Canadian forestry companies and nine environmental organizations including Greenpeace have announced an agreement that will temporarily suspend for three years any new logging in 29 million hectares of Canadian boreal forest [search] about the size of Montana to plan for possible... US: Revoke Guantanamo Ban on Four Journalists via
(Washington, DC) - The US Defense Department's decision to ban four journalists from covering military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay contradicts the Obama administration's pledge of greater transparency and further discredits the commissions, Human Rights Watch and other organizations said in a letter to the Department of Defense today.
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Publications: Eligibility/Somalis, HAP Rpt., Health Stats., HDR Rpt./OPT, Migrant Trafficking/Canada, WFP/Somalia via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
2009 Humanitarian Accountability Report (HAP, May 2010) [text]"Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based," Conflict and Health 4:10 (2010) [open access text]"The Battle against Migrant Trafficking in Canada: Is the Target Organized Crime or Irregular Immigration?," Our Diverse Cities, no. 7 (Spring 2010) [text via SSRN]Human Development Report 2009/2010: Occupied Palestinian Territory - Investing in Human Security for a Future State (UNDP, May 2010) [text via ReliefWeb]Humanitarian Diplomacy & Failed States: Case Study of the WFP Operations in Somalia (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, May 2010) [text]UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Somalia (UNHCR, May 2010) [text] Tagged...
One mother’s eviction story makes news in Toronto via Poverty News Blog
The story of mother's possible eviction from her apartment is receiving the attention of the media in Toronto. Bsra Nor had unemployment insurance benefits taken away from her by the Toronto city government, so she is unable to afford her rent. Her husband lives in the states and is not supporting her financially. Social service advocates are storming city hall to plea Nor's case before she gets evicted.From Rabble, writer John Bonnar describes Nor's situation. Bsra Nor’s payments were stopped at the beginning of April after Social Services told her the week before that she no longer qualified for Ontario Works because she is married, even though her situation had remained unchanged since she started receiving benefits almost a year ago.“I told them from the beginning that I’m...
G8: Act to Improve Maternal and Child Health via
G8 development ministers should take a strong stand on fulfilling the global promise to reduce maternal and child mortality and eliminate health disparities among nations and communities, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Canadian government.
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OXFAM says fix aid then commit more money via Poverty News Blog
To coincide with the G-8 financial ministers meeting in Canada, OXFAM is saying that international aid needs fixing and more money. The development ministers of the G-8 nations are meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia to set the agenda for when the heads of those states meet later this year. As chair of the G-8 this year, Canada wants to push aid development onto the forefront of the agenda, so OXFAM's report gives some suggestions. OXFAM is now agreeing with those that say that international aid is broken, wasteful and need of repair. However, the charity does not agree with those who think we should get rid of it entirely. OXFAM is urging the G-8 to not only tackle the waste but then to commit more money to aid From this Canwest News Service article that we found at Canada.com, writer...
Canada’s chair of the G-8 brings hope for aid pledges via Poverty News Blog
Out of all of the G-8 countries Canada has been the best in keeping their aid promises. So many poverty advocates are hoping that Canada will use their chairmanship of G-8 this year to put pressure on the other countries to live up to their own promises. From this Canadian Press article that we found at Google News, we read more about the hopes that poverty fighting NGO's have for Canada. Canada has largely lived up to its promises, and has put C$5 billion toward aid in 2010-2011, said Jessica Fletcher, spokeswoman for International Development Minister Bev Oda."We come out looking better than most," agreed Dennis Howlett, national co-ordinator of Make Poverty History, an umbrella group of large non-governmental organizations in Canada.That's why Canada should use its moral authority, as...
Canada’s hot ticket for Bonn, and the new spirit of Canadian leadership via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Publications: Alerta Rpt., Asylum Bill/Canada, HIV Guidelines, Info. Mgmt., Preventing Displacement, Transitional Justice via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Alerta 2010! Informe sobre conflictos, derechos humanos y construcción de paz (Escola de Cultura de Pau, 2010) [access]Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings (IASC, Dec. 2009; posted March 2010) [text]- Update of "Addressing HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings" (2004).Present Humanitarian Information Management: Its Accessibility, Inclusiveness and Offline Crowdsourcing (Harvard International Review, 2010?) [text]Prevention of forced displacement: the inconsistencies of a concept, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 186 (UNHCR, April 2010) [text]Reconceiving refugees and internally displaced persons as transitional justice actors, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 187 (UNHCR, April 2010) [text]Speed, but at What Cost? (IntLawGrrls Blog, April 2010) [text]Tagged...
13 Cities In Canada Award Fossil Fool Awards to Local and National Tar Sands Supporters via It's Getting Hot In Here
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A BrandAID for third-world artisans via Poverty News Blog
There are many crafters and artisans in the under-developed world, but very few people get to see their work. What is missing for these artisans is a way into the global marketplace, many are cut from the the technology or the transportation that can help to sell their art. That is why many social business are springing up to give these artisans an global market. We learned of a new one today based in Canada called BrandAID.From the Globe and Mail, writer Diane Jermyn interviews one of the BrandAid founders Tony Pigott. The Globe and Mail also has a great video that sums up the entire piece. “Don't be confused,” says Tony Pigott, who is also president and chief executive officer of JWT, a communications and advertising agency in Toronto. “We're still in the startup stage, but...