The November 2011 edition of AEFJN's Forum for Action is now online. It contains articles on the ethical responsibility of the Church on the climate issue, on the clean up of the Ogoniland oil spills, which will take decades, on the spread of Libyan arms in the Sahel, on the production of medicines in Africa and on the EU's attempt to force African countries to sign EPAs.
The national election campaign officially started the 28th October in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), exactly one month ahead of historic presidential and legislative elections, scheduled for November 28 2011. 41 humanitarian and human rights organizations, among them AEFJN, have expressed concern about the high political tension and deteriorating security situation. They have called upon all Congolese and international actors involved to take urgent measures to prevent electoral violence, better protect civilians and ensure credible, free and fair elections.Climate talks move slowly
It remains an open question as to whether negotiators will be able to secure a comprehensive, legally binding agreement at the Cancun COP.
Christiana Figueres, the former Costa Rican climate negotiator who will replace Yvo de Boer as head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will assume her new post on 8 July.
She said: “Governments will meet this challenge, for the simple reason that humanity must meet this challenge.” “We just don’t have another option,” Figueres said in an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the Bonn meeting.
To read more, go on: AEFJN Climate Change Materials
Source: Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest (Volume 14, Number 21, 9th June 2010)
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