19 Apr - 22 Apr
: World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Where: Cochabamba, Bolivia
(AFP) LA PAZ — An alternative “people’s conference” on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said Tuesday.
“The only thing that can save mankind from a [climate] tragedy is the exercise of global democracy,” said Bolivia’s United Nations Ambassador Pablo Solon, a key organizer of the summit.
A priority of the meeting would be discussing the possibility of a global referendum “with the goal of reaching two billion people,” he told reporters.
For more information please visit: http://pwccc.wordpress.com/ UN Press Conference: http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2010/100119_Earth.doc.htm
19 Apr - 30 Apr
: 9 th SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES
Where: UN Headquarters, New York
Special Theme: Indigenous peoples: development with culture and identity; articles 3 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
For more information, please visit http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/session_ninth.html
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