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• World Health Organization and H5N1 Influenza

  WHO concerned that new H5N1 influenza research could undermine the 2011 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework

  31 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  «H5N1 influenza viruses are a significant health risk to people for several reasons. Although this type of influenza does not infect humans often, when it does, approximately 60% of those infected die. In addition, because these viruses can cause such severe illness in people, scientists are especially concerned that this type of influenza could one day mutate so it spreads easily between people and causes a very serious influenza pandemic. Research which can improve the understanding of (...)

• A successful working visit

  Seychelles marks its presence in La Reunion

  16 décembre 2011 Temoignages.re

  Alain St.Ange, CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board, with the Board's Senior Marketing Executive, Sharen Venus-Tomking and Marketing Executive Juliette Albert formed part of the Minister's Delegation to the sister island of La Reunion. Addressing the Seychelles Evening at the Creolia Hotel in St. Denis, Minister Joel Morgan said that Seychelles and La Reunion were more than only neighbors. “Seychelles and La Reunion are linked by history with many Seychellois having (...)

• World Health Organization

  Malaria Deaths Are Down But Progress Remains Fragile

  14 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  However, WHO warns that a projected shortfall in funding threatens the fragile gains and that the double challenge of emerging drug and insecticide resistance needs to be proactively addressed. "We are making significant progress in battling a major public health problem. Coverage of at-risk populations with malaria prevention and control measures increased again in 2010, and resulted in a further decline in estimated malaria cases and deaths," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. (...)

• Turn Their Backs On Canadian Government During Opening Speech

  Canadian Youth Ejected From COP17

  8 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  “Our so-called Environment Minister entered these talks by going on record that he would be defending the tar sands. I have yet to hear him say that he's here to defend my future,” said James Hutt, one of the youth delegates who participated in the action. The six youth, including Brigette DePape (the “Rogue Page”) received an ovation from the crowd watching the Minister's address. They were escorted out of the International Convention Center's (...)

• United Nations Climate Talks

  Oxfam and WWF join with shipowners to urge agreement on way forward for tackling greenhouse gas emissions from ships

  1 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  Oxfam, WWF and the International Chamber of Shipping (which represents over 80% of the world merchant fleet) call on delegates to COP 17 to give the International Maritime Organization (IMO) clear guidance on continuing its work on reducing shipping emissions through the development of Market Based Measures (MBMs). The organisations maintain that an effective regulatory framework for curbing emission of CO2 from international shipping must be global in nature and designed so as to reduce (...)

• Message to Hilary Clinton

  The US is a major obstacle to progress

  1 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  They expressed concern at the negotiating positions and strategy of the US. Quoting Obama during his election that “Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” and that “once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in these negotiations, and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change.” Now the US is a major obstacle to (...)

• United Nations Climate Talks

  Small island states reject proposal for a global climate deal by 2020

  1 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  On the eve of the opening of the Durban Climate Conference, Ambassador Dessima Williams, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations and Chair of AOSIS cautioned that if Durban puts off a legally binding agreement and closes the door on raising mitigation ambition before 2020 many of our small island states will be severely threatened. “AOSIS is calling on the Durban conference to deliver agreement on a second five-year commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, a (...)

• World Meteoroligical Organization

  WMO Report: 2011 was the world’s 10th warmest year, warmest year with La Niña on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent

  1 December 2011 Temoignages.re

  Global temperatures in 2011 have not been as warm as the record-setting values seen in 2010 but have likely been warmer than any previous strong La Niña year, based on preliminary data from data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The global combined sea surface and land surface air temperature for 2011 (January–October) is currently estimated at 0.41°C ± 0.111°C (0.74°F ± 0.20°F) above the 1961–1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.2°F. At present, (...)

• HIV/AIDS

  World Health Organization : Unparalleled Global Progress in HIV Response

  30 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  "It has taken the world ten years to achieve this level of momentum," says Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of WHO's HIV Department. "There is now a very real possibility of getting ahead of the epidemic. But this can only be achieved by both sustaining and accelerating this momentum over the next decade and beyond." Advances in HIV science and programme innovations over the past year add hope for future progress. In times of economic austerity it will be essential to rapidly apply (...)

• According to the president of COP-17

  Adaptation : an essential element of the Durban outcome

  23 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figures, has signalled that progress on adaptation at COP 17 is imperative, particularly for African nations: “As Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the context of climate change, the African continent has much to gain from strengthened and coordinated adaptation action, which will be so desperately needed as climate change effects such as droughts and floods increase even further than where they are now”. Progress will be (...)

• Durban Climate Conference

  UNFCCC Secretariat launches new Momentum for Change Initiative

  23 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  here are myriad opportunities to benefit people directly, while at the same time contributing to global efforts to control emissions or enhance adaptation capacity, and these opportunities have already been seized by many stakeholders, at national or sub-national levels. Under a new initiative entitled ‘Momentum for Change', the secretariat will create a series of platforms to recognize and encourage such projects. The first platform of the series focuses on successful and (...)

• World Meteorologic Organization’s Bulletin highlights growth in nitrous oxide in atmosphere

  WMO : Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Continue Climbing

  22 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  Between 1990 and 2010, according to the report, there was a 29% increase in radiative forcing - the warming effect on our climate system - from greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide accounted for 80% of this increase. “The atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases due to human activities has yet again reached record levels since pre-industrial time,” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. “Even if we managed to halt our greenhouse gas emissions today – and this is far (...)

• Commissioner for Human Rights - Council of Europe

  The Right to Leave One’s Country Should Be Applied Without Discrimination

  22 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  In response the government in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” has decided to criminalise “abuse of the European Union visa-free regime and of the Schengen agreement”. It has also determined that those who have been forcibly returned as failed asylum seekers could have their passports temporarily confiscated. Other countries in the region have also taken steps to prevent certain people from travelling to EU countries. Those who seek to leave for the EU (...)

• An oil spill turns into an environmental disaster in the Niger Delta

  Shell’s Environmental Policy: Let Them Die, These Are Just Negroes ?

  16 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  Shell must commit to pay an initial US$1 billion to begin the clean-up of pollution caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said today. A new report by the two groups released today, The true tragedy: delays and failures in tackling oil spills in the Niger Delta looks at the ongoing devastation caused by two major oil spills which took place at Bodo, Ogoniland, in 2008, and which have never been (...)

• Occupy Wall Street

  New York Mayor Bloomberg Clears Out Occupy Wall Street

  16 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  Update: New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman denied a motion by protesters to be allowed back into Zuccotti Park with their gear and tents. He also did not extend a temporary restraining order issued by Justice Lucy Billings, which would have allowed protesters to maintain their encampment and property in Zuccotti Park. Editor's note: In response to the sudden eviction of Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park, Justice Lucy Billings issued a temporary restraining order (...)

• New York

  Journalists Detained in Occupy Wall Street Raid

  16 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  At least half a dozen journalists were among those arrested in and around Zuccotti Park and at other protest sites in downtown Manhattan, according to demonstrators and other journalists who photographed and filmed their peers being taken into custody. Reporter Karen Matthews and photographer Seth Wenig of The Associated Press in New York were detained for about four hours after they followed protesters through an opening in a chain-link fence into a separate park owned by a church. (...)

• Occupy Movement is Spreading and Growing

  14 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  Our captured government won't do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It doesn't stop polluters - even as the effects of climate change increase. It doesn't enforce employment and labor laws, so all of us who work fall further and further behind. It doesn't take care of those in need even as more and more of us are in greater and greater need. It just helps the (...)

• #Occupy Wall Street

  «The Occupiers Need Essential Food and Supplies!»

  12 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  «Dear Readers, As we enter the coldest months of the year, many of the occupiers across our country are battling freezing cold temperatures to stay safe, warm, and active for the cause. NationofChange has set out to raise $10,000 to purchase critical food and warmth supplies for protesters in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Denver, and Chicago. We are off to a great start but we need your support now, in order to meet our goal by the end of tomorrow. We will put 100% of our goal (...)

• Occupy Oakland Reacts to Violence

  12 November 2011 Temoignages.re

  Nov. 10 marked the one-month anniversary of Occupy Oakland - the political, social, and economic protest and encampment against corporate greed, social inequality and police brutality, which took over Frank Ogawa Plaza, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. But instead of a planned birthday celebration, the Occupy camp turned into a somber vigil, after a late-afternoon outbreak of violence turned deadly, resulting in a fight that led to the shooting of a young man (...)

• Forecast

  Airbus sees demand for over 27,800 aircraft in the next 20 years

  19 septembre 2011 Temoignages.re

  As a result, by 2030 the global passenger fleet will more than double from today's 15,000 aircraft to 31,500. This will include some 27,800 new aircraft deliveries of which 10,500 will be needed for replacing older less fuel efficient aircraft. The trend towards larger aircraft will continue, in order for the aviation sector to keep pace with future growth in demand. People need and want to fly more than ever before. Over the next 20 years the aviation sector is expected to remain (...)