After a week of negotiations, the main conclusions of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Right of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, April 2010) have been incorporated in the document of United Nations on Climate Change, that now have been recognized as a negotiation text for the 192 countries which has been congregated in…
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General News
The Right to Water and Sanitation as a Human Right
Today July 28, 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved the proposal of the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to declare THE RIGHT TO WATER AND SANITATION AS A HUMAN RIGHT. Here is the full text of UN Resolution. RESOLUTION The Human Right to Water and Sanitation Item 48 of the…
General News
Permanent 5 members of the Security Council signal a nuclear energy bonanza, while remaining silent on Israeli weapons
By Tony Robinson As the NPT gets well into its first week, anti-nuclear organisations become increasingly concerned at the amount of encouragement given to countries to develop nuclear energy. “We call for the development of nuclear energy in a culture of openness and transparency,… and stress the importance of promoting the sustainable development of peaceful…
General News, Past Events, World March
UN Secretary General Gives Enthusiastic Support to World March
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon received a delegation of the World March in New York and gave his enthusiastic support to this “noble” effort. Both parties offered to find ways to work together in the task of abolishing nuclear weapons. The March organizers agreed to adopt the Secretary General’s 5-Point Plan as one of its…
Past Events, Videos, World March
Video of the Meeting with Ban Kee Moon at the UN on Dec 1st
By Isabelle Bourgeois
World March
Rafael’s speech at UN – World March
Dear friends First of all, I’d like to thank the permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations, the host of this gathering, other delegations, individuals and organisations that are accompanying us and very specially the members of “World without Wars” and humanists from New York that have made this presentation of the “World March…
Humanist Movement
Evo Morales was in town
Evo Morales was in town today for the UN Summit and he went to a park in NY to play soccer along with others in his entourage. It was a gathering of several hundred people almost all Bolivian and with some stadium benches. We got there early and when we showed our banner “Mar para…