Good News Agency – Year II, n° 1
Weekly - Year II, number 1 –
12 January 2001
Managing Editor: Sergio Tripi,
Ph. D.
Rome
Law-court registration no. 265 dated 20 June 2000.
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On 31 December 2000, the final
day of the 20th century, Iran, Israel
and the United States of America signed the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court. Austria became the 26th country to ratify the Statute on
the 28 December 2000, with Finland ratifying on the 29th of December
2000. The Treaty has been signed by 139 countries and 27 countries have
ratified it. The treaty will enter into force once it has been ratified
by 60 countries. A Rome Statute signature and ratification chart as well as
country by country ratification status is available at: http://www.iccnow.org/rome/html/ratify.html
Source: The Sunflower Newsletter No. 44 January 2001
(2 January) After a decade of
debate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released final standards for
labelling organic foods last month, siding with environmentalists and the
organic farming industry on nearly every contentious issue. The
standards, which will become fully effective in 2002, ban the use of
irradiation, biotechnology, and sewer-sludge fertilizer for any food labelled
organic. All three methods would have been allowed under the standards
proposed by the USDA in 1997, but the department did an about-face after receiving
nearly 300,000 public comments protesting their inclusion. The final standards
also ban the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers in growing organic
foods, and the use of antibiotics in organic meats. Sales of organic
foods in the U.S. have increased by 20 percent each year since 1990, reaching
$6 billion in 1999.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/science/21ORGA.html
UNIFEM Launches Project to Prevent the Trafficking of
Adolescents in Latvia
The trafficking in human beings for sexual
exploitation is a growing phenomenon worldwide and of increasing concern in the
Baltic State of Latvia. In response to this situation, UNIFEM will launch a new
project in Latvia next year to prevent the trafficking of adolescents, in
collaboration with the Youth Health Center Council of Latvia, the International
Organization of Adolescents and the Genders Community Youth Organization. The
project consists of a nationwide education campaign to raise awareness on the
prevalence of human trafficking, as well as the incorporation of a special
module on the issue of trafficking into the educational programs of teenage
centers throughout Latvia. Project partners will also work with local NGOs and
government organizations to develop a National Action Plan for the prevention
of trafficking.
For more information, contact Alison Boak at ALIBOAK@aol.com
http://www.undp.org/unifem/currents.htm
(5 January) Sanitary conditions
in the largest Ivorian prison, the Maison d'arret et de correction d'Abidjan
(MACA), have greatly improved since 1997, the French charity Medecins sans
frontieres (MSF) announced in its latest activity report.
In its report for 2000, MSF
says the mortality rate has been reduced by 90 percent as prison buildings have
been disinfected and sanitary facilities renovated. MSF also says drinkable
water is now available free of charge.
Experts of
children’s rights to Examine Reports from 9 countries
The promotion and
protection of children's rights in Latvia, Liechtenstein, Ethiopia, Egypt,
Lithuania, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Palau and Dominican Republic will be at the
top of the agenda as the Committee on the Rights of the Child meets in Geneva
from 8 to 26 January 2001.
The Committee was
formed in 1991 to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, the most complete statement of children's rights ever made and the
first to give these rights the force of international law. The countries
scheduled to come before the Committee at this session are among the 191 to
have ratified or acceded to the Convention, a number that makes the treaty the
most widely accepted human rights instrument ever. Only Somalia and the United
States have not yet ratified it. The States parties to the Convention are
expected to send representatives to the Committee to present and defend reports
on how they give effect to children's rights.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/NewsRoom
Protocol against
women discrimination entered into force
United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson welcomed the entry into force on 22
December of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Thirteen
Governments have ratified the Protocol to date. The Protocol allows the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to receive and
consider complaints submitted by or on behalf of individuals or groups under
the jurisdiction of a State party.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/NewsRoom
Nobel Prize Laureates require conversion of weapons
into development projects
Governments of "our" planet spend about 800 billion US Dollars
for defensive purposes. If such amount, often the result of tensions and
conflicts, could be reduced to a half, the whole humanity would be safer and
enormous resources could be used for the development of the poverty areas in
the world.
Nuclear disarmament (more than 13.000 strategic warheads are still
active) might produce more than 1,000 tons of enriched uranium which can be
converted. A fair drawing from this operation could result in a very important
peace dividend.
http://www2.glauco.it/focsiv/nobelen.htm]
Goettingen Appeal for the
Prevention of a New Arms Race on Earth and in Outer Space
The US Sunflower Newsletter of
January 2001 reports that at an International Network for Engineers and
Scientists (INES) workshop, held in Goettingen, Germany on 4 November, the
following Appeal to the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 was issued:
"The deployment of
missile defense systems by the USA and the militarization of outer space
present a threat to peace and international security and increase the danger of
a new arms race on earth and in space. In order to prevent a new arms race and
to open way for negotiations, we demand a test freeze for ballistic missiles,
missile defense systems and space weapons. The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)
Treaty of 1972 between the USA and Russia is fundamental to international
stability. It must be preserved and extended to all nations.
Ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons must be disarmed. The development,
testing and deployment of weapons in space must be prohibited by a space
convention. We call for a space free of any weapons and the abolition of
nuclear arms."
Source: The Sunflower Newsletter No. 44 January 2001
Bilateral Investment Treaties Quintupled
During The 1990s
The
number of bilateral treaties for the promotion and protection of foreign
investments (BITs) increased dramatically during the 1990s, according to the
new compilation released by UNCTAD on the UNCTAD website
(http://www.unctad.org). Their number rose from 385 at the end of the 1980s to
a total of 1,857 BITs, involving 173 countries, at the end of the 1990s.
Significantly, the number of such treaties concluded between developing
countries; between developing countries and countries in Central and Eastern
Europe; and between Central and Eastern European countries grew sharply, from
63 at the end of the 1980s to 833 at the end of the 1990s. UNCTAD's data
suggest that the role of BITs as an instrument for the international protection
of foreign investment has increased over the years, especially in the context
of South-South cooperation.
http://www.unctad.org/en/press/pr2877en.htm
Canada
sends $3 million to Russia to improve corporate governance
The Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) announced on 19 December that it would provide $3
million to promote corporate governance in Russia.
The York University's Schulich of Business will work
with the Higher School of Economics in Russia to devise a curriculum in the
area of corporate governance for Russian business professors. The program will
run for three and half years. CIDA's announcement came as Vladimir Putin, the
President of the Russian Federation, was visiting Canada.
"Trasparent and
accountable business practices will be critical in Russia over the coming years
in order to encourage foreign investment and growth," said Maria Minna,
Canada's Minister for International Cooperation.
http://www.earthtimes.org/economicdirectory.htm
New World Bank report: "Global Economic Prospects
and the Developing Countries 2001"
Developing countries are expected to grow at 5.3 percent
in 2000 and at 5 percent in 2001, the highest economic growth rates in over a
decade, but are hurt by trade barriers in rich nations. This is one of the
central messages of the recently released "Global Economic Prospects and
the Developing Countries 2001". This year, the World Bank's report focuses
on international trade and discusses policies that are required if developing
countries are to benefit from global integration. It also includes an analysis
of the prospects for poverty reduction.
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gep2001/index.htm
Kazakhstan National Development Plan for 2001-2005
Engendered
The Government of Kazakhstan has agreed to include a
special section on the advancement of women’s rights in their National Plan for Social and
Economic Development for 2001-2005. One component of this special section will
be to monitor the implementation of the National Action Plan on the Advancement
of Women, which was developed according to commitments outlined in the Beijing
Platform for Action. The mention of women’s rights for the first time ever in the National
Development Plan is largely due to the efforts of the National Commission on
Family and Women’s Affairs, which was established in 1998 and works closely with UNIFEM.
For more information, contact UNIFEM’s Gender Advisor, Damira Sartbaeva, at:
damira.sartbaeva@undp.org or Dina Shukurova at dina.shukurova@undp.org
http://www.undp.org/unifem/currents.htm
(5 January) Mauritania is reviewing
a US $50-million World bank funded project for Nouakchott, aimed at improving
living conditions in the capital's poor neighbourhoods, AFP reported on Sunday.
The main goal is to reduce poverty among 40 percent of the city's two million
residents. Poor neighborhoods sprung up following droughts in the 1970s and an
effort to modernise the city, AFP reported.
(29 December) The US Agency
for International Development (USAID) is to provide US $2 million to support
the West African power pool project, a regional initiative aimed at ensuring
more efficient use of the energy resources of the subregion.
The funding will provide for
on-the-job training and technical aid. In addition, USAID is to provide a power
pool manager who will act as a technical advisor for the project. The agreement
was signed on 13 December between the US ambassador to Mali and the executive
secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Lansana
Kouyate.
(29 December) The president of
Niger, Mamadou Tandja, has announced that 1,000 villages would each receive a
school, a well and a health centre as part of his government's effort in 2001
to improve living conditions, PANA reported on Monday.
Tandja, who announced these
measures on 22 December, also said 100 small dams would be built nationwide.
Villages housing a minimum of 1,000 habitants would be the recipients of the
new social infrastructures, which should increase full-time school enrollment
and provide medical care to a greater proportion of the rural population.
The health centres would be
equipped to fight malaria, meningitis and AIDS, PANA reported. Tandja also
plans labour intensive projects to provide jobs for thousands of the
unemployed, the agency added.
Eurofish: helping fisheries across Europe
To develop fisheries in a sustainable and sound manner
in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, an international organization, Eurofish,
is currently being established, coordinated by FAO. Eurofish, whose members
will include EU nations and countries of Central and Eastern Europe, will have
its first governing council in Copenhagen in mid-2001.
Eurofish aims to promote and develop trade, assist in
financing and investment, and provide up-to-date information on fisheries. The
overall objective is to facilitate trade and investment in fish processing and
aquaculture with member country governments and the private sector.
Building on the outputs of its predecessor -- the FAO
Eastfish Project -- Eurofish already includes a network of contact points in 19
Central and Eastern European countries. It also has a publication Eurofish
Magazine and an advisory board representing the fish industry to provide
professional advice and assistance.
http://www.fao.org/news/2000/brief/
Washington, January 4, 2001--A US$5 million grant for a Community
Development Fund for Kosovo has been signed by Christiaan Poortman, World Bank
Coordinator for Southeast Europe and by Flaka Surroi, Executive Director for
the Community Development Fund.
The project will improve the quality and availability of community infrastructure and services in poor and conflict-affected communities and for vulnerable groups and will support institutional capacity-building at the community and municipal levels to improve the quality and sustainability of service delivery and increase civic participation in local development.
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/news/pressrelease.nsf/
Benin, 26 December – Catholic
Relief Service (CRS) decided to support with over US$ 26 million the fight
against poverty started in Benin. Press of Cotonou reported this contribution
will be donated between 2001 and 2005 and it will be targeted to various
sectors including food, health, education and micro-financing. Special care
will be given also to handicapped people and the elders. CRS in an NGO
established by the US catholic bishops in 1943 to help war refugees in Europe.
Once the situation in the “old continent” was better, CRS has been addressing
its efforts to all countries suffering humanitarian emergencies or developing
countries.
New York, 22 December - A Roman Catholic diocese has
forgiven $118 million that was loaned over 40 years to keep more than a hundred
schools and churches afloat. The debt cancellation, done in the spirit of Pope
John Paul II's decree to cast aside obligations by those less fortunate, is the
largest of its kind nationwide. The gesture was announced at a Mass on
Wednesday by Bishop Thomas V. Daily, who heads Brooklyn's diocese, comprised of
1.6 million Catholics in the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of the city.
The Pope earlier this year made a plea to forgive the
debt of developing nations, regardless of religion, as part of Jubilee.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/12/22/diocese.debtrelief.ap/index.html
(5 January) France will
deliver 40 mt of relief aid at the end of this week to an estimated 400,000 people
in southern Guinea displaced by recent cross-border attacks by armed rebels,
the state news agency said on Wednesday.
AFP quoted the French Foreign
Ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, as saying the aid would be delivered
through the International Committee of the Red Cross and other humanitarian
organizations operating in the area.
(29 December) Mozambique's
economic policy in 2001 is to continue to be largely determined by donors, who
are expecting reforms to accelerate following two years of disruption due to
political tensions and severe flooding earlier this year, the Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU) forecast.
The inflow of post-flood
assistance should continue throughout 2001. This, together with an increase in
output from the recently opened Mozal aluminium smelter, expected to reach full
capacity next year, should allow real GDP growth to rise to 8.5 percent, the
EIU said in its outlook for 2001. The average rate of inflation is expected to
fall to 7 percent, and the increase in output from Mozal could see exports more
than double, cutting into the current-account deficit. Debt relief granted
under the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative should allow a
substantial reduction in debt-service payments. "These solid macroeconomic
fundamentals will continue to make Mozambique a favoured location for
investment into the region," the EIU briefing noted.
Eight countries
to receive World Bank and IMF support for debt relief under the enhanced HIPC Initiative
Washington, December 22 -- The World Bank Group's International Development Association and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to support a comprehensive debt reduction package for Rwanda, Guinea, Malawi, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Niger, São Tomé and Príncipe under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/news/pressrelease.nsf/
(5 January) Ivorian primary
schools teachers, represented by the Syndicat national de l'enseignement
primaire public de Cote d'Ivoire (SNEPPCI), will receive some US $293,000 from
the World Bank for its anti-AIDS campaign, the state-owned daily 'Fraternite
Matin' reported on Wednesday.
The contribution, of which US
$55,000 is from the Ivorian government, would fund information and prevention
programmes and pay for support structures for teachers with HIV, as well as for
their wives and children. Since 1998, growing number of primary and secondary
school teachers have been contracting the virus that leads to AIDS which,
according to a local medical study, kills up to eight teachers each week, the
newspaper reported.
(5 January) WHO officials are
due in South Africa this week to help the government deal with a cholera
outbreak which has killed 53 people so far. The head of WHO in South Africa,
Welile Shasha, told IRIN on Thursday that two epidemiologists expected by the
end of the week would consult government health officials and then head off to
KwaZulu Natal to try to determine why the epidemic has not yet been stemmed.
"They will be here to design a programme to deal with the outbreak and
also to look at ways of preventing future outbreaks," he told IRIN.
(29 December) The International
Medical Corps, a US-based NGO, has declared that the Port Loko District
Hospital can now provide comprehensive primary health care services as the
facility undergoes rehabilitation, the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report spanning 7-22 December.
It said the prevalent
illnesses include malaria, respiratory tract infections, malnutrition, skin
infections and anaemia. The hospital, the only referral service in the
district, some 60 km northeast of Freetown, is being re-equipped with beds,
laboratory and surgical equipment. Other facilities will include a surgery
unit, maternity and children wards, a kitchen, dental surgery and a morgue.
Earthwatch Center, plans to work with the World Conservation Monitoring
Center, in Cambridge, U.K., to make our decades of ecosystem analysis and reems
of valuable biodiversity data available to a global audience of governments,
nongovernmental organizations, and businesses. The Center, recently adopted by
the United Nations Environment Program as its global biodiversity information
and assessment hub, will serve as a clearing house for Earthwatch data to be
used in the development of national and international environmental policies
and regulations.
www.earthwatch.org/pubaffairs/headlines.html
Recently at the
American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, climatologists say the
burning forests in lush tropical lands thousands of miles from Europe. may be
worsening rainstorms in northern Europe urban jungles and all places.
It's the latest
sign that when it comes to weather, all Earth is a "global village":
a climate upset in one region can set off a different upset thousands of miles
away.
January 1, 2001 Forest Conservation’s byline: Keay
Davidson
http://forests.org/
http://forests.org/web/
First
World Forestry Report
Washington: the
authors of a landmark report released called "Pilot Analysis of Global
Ecosystems: Forest Ecosystems", say the world should be thinking of forest
quality, not just forest quantity. It is the first attempt to analyse the
condition of forests worldwide, based on their ability to provide a wide range
of goods and services.
Author Emily
Matthews said: "We are, running through our old growth or primary forests,
not out of trees, especially in the developed countries where continue to
increase slightly,” Much of the wood
production in developed countries takes place in secondary growth. Production
of all wood fiber products is keeping up with demand
The report explains how roads,
even in Central Africa where transportation systems are less developed than in
the West, have fragmented dense forest into smaller pieces. Worldwide, fires
started by humans, demands for fuel, mineral resources, and food production are
altering the distribution, density and size of trees, and radically affecting
many other species that depend on forests. The authors recommend that
governments encourage production from plantations and intensive forest
management in selected areas
The
World Forestry Report can be found in full at:
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr2000
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enheadlines/978413003/index_html
Taipei, Taiwan:
under the law passed, people will be fined up to 10,000 Taiwan dollars ($300
U.S.) for butchering or selling dog or cat or other pets and stray animals
meat, the “fragrant meat” once popular considered to be a winter treat In
recent years, the dog eateries have become less common because Taiwanese have
become more affluent and influenced by Western values and urban people consider
those who eat dogs to be backward and cruel.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/FOOD/news/01/03/taiwan.dogmeat.ap/index.html
Computer recyclers offer
alternatives to the dump
Computer waste
gets worse during the holiday season when new electronic goodies replace the
old in many households. Computer recycling operations are working to combat,
and profit from, a rapid increase in computer waste. Many companies offer an
alternative to the dump.
http://www.epa.gov/ (Environment
protection Agency)
A&B Recycling
of Georgia receives up to 60 truckloads of electronics a month. Phones,
computers and microwaves are rehabilitated and resold to companies as far away
as China.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/12/08/computer.recycle/index.html
The computer
industry itself is beginning to seek solutions to the electronic waste problem.
IBM recently launched a computer recycling service If the computer can't be
saved, IBM recycles the parts at Envirocycle, a Pennsylvania-based firm.
http://www.enviroinc.com/
http://www.ibm.com/
http://www.a-brecyclinginc.com/home.htm
Computer Aid International
(UK) exists to recycle donated computers for re-use in schools, and community
organisations in developing countries; translates into the maximum number of
recycled computers possible; is working in partnership with many established
agencies, including; United Nations Association for International Service,
Peace Child International Survival International, Nicaragua Solidarity
Campaign, SOS Children's Villages (UK), Skillshare Africa, International
Co-operation for Development
http://www.computeraid.org/ukpartnerorg.htm
Each year an estimated
6 million tons of electronic waste end up in European dumps.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/21/electronic.waste.idg/index.html
Air quality aboard commercial
jetliners comes under scrutiny
"It's a
public health problem that has not been addressed," said Christopher
Witkowski, director of safety and health for the AFA (Association of Flight
Attendants, represents more than 40,000 flight attendants at more than 25
airlines).
The National Academy of
Sciences will review data on aircraft contaminants
from the AFA and other health and environmental organizations and will evaluate
potential approaches for improving air quality.
The study, including
recommendations, must be completed by September 2001.
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/01/01042001/reu_air_41154.asp
Mexico City: air is getting
cleaner
5 January - The air in Mexico
City -- described by the U.N. in 1992 as the world's worst -- seems to be
getting cleaner. Even as the number of cars and people picks up in the
city, tougher environmental rules calling for cleaner fuels, catalytic
converters on cars, emissions tests, and limits on industrial pollution have
caused pollution numbers this winter to drop significantly. In the 1990s,
simply breathing in the city was the equivalent of smoking two packs of
cigarettes a day. An air quality index in 1996 reached 394 on a scale
from zero to 500, with anything over 100 viewed as unsatisfactory; on Wednesday
this week the index topped out at 69. Big challenges remain, but Nobel Laureate
Mario Molina, who is helping to lead a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
study on the issue, expressed hope that new technologies would offer solutions.
Aluminium cans recycling
(5 January) Industry experts
say Brazil will recycle about 80 percent of the 9.5 billion aluminum cans sold
in the country in 2000, putting it on pace to match Japan's trend-setting rate
of 79 percent in 1999. By comparison, the U.S. recycled 63 percent of its
cans in 1999 and Europe as a whole recycled 41 percent. The boom in
Brazilian recycling is due in large part to enterprising Brazilians who collect
carelessly littered cans in cities and towns throughout the country. Recycling
cans has become a $110 million-a-year industry employing about 150,000
Brazilians, according to the Brazil Aluminum Association. Producing a ton
of aluminum from scratch requires 16,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, while
using old cans requires only 750 k/hours.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/03/brazil.recycle.ap/index.html
Planetary Vision Festival launched on World Day One
(01/01/01)!
(1st
January 2001) Groups in 26 countries joined together today, the official first
day of the 21st Century and the Third Millennium, to launch Planetary
Vision Festival 2001 through two global ‘grassroots’ initiatives: The
First Global Singalong, a singalong of special universally-themed
songs, and First Steps – A Walk for the Future, a local/global walk for
our common future.
The
Planetary Vision Festival is the first in an annual series of events and
programs celebrating the new planetary consciousness and its related ethics and
actions.
From
Queensland, Australia in the east to Samoa in the west and from Anchorage,
Alaska in the far north to Antarctica in the extreme south, global citizens
joined together through participation in these volunteer-based events to
mutually express unity, hope and goodwill as humanity entered the new
Millennium.
http://www.PlanetaryVision.net
Participants from seven
countries in sub-Saharan Africa took a step towards bridging the digital divide
by successfully completing the first phase of an Internet training course hosted
by UNDP and Cisco Systems last month at the Centre for Information and
Communication Technology in Accra, Ghana. The course is part of a strategic
partnership between UNDP, Cisco Systems, UN Volunteers and others to bring Cisco's
Networking Academy Program to 24 of the world's 48 least developed
countries.
http://www.undp.org/dpa/index.html
124 IYV committees poised
for volunteer year
Bonn, 21 December- Volunteer activists
have formed 124 committees in more than 100 countries to promote and celebrate
volunteerism throughout the International Year of Volunteers 2001 (IYV 2001).
Most of the IYV Committees were in place by the global launch of the year,
which took place on or around 5 December in about 100 countries. IYV committees
at the national, state and municipal levels have put in place a broad range of
activities to promote and recognize the work of volunteers during the year --
the largest global celebration of volunteerism ever conceived. These committees
will follow-up and report on events taking place during the year with a view to
strengthening the status of volunteers in the societies where they work.
http://www.iyv2001.org/infobase/press/00_12_21DEU_un.htm
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