Publicado por La Época Escrito por Adalberto J. Kopp 29 Agosto 2010 En materia de seguridad alimentaria se da una persistente confrontación entre la línea que deriva la cuestión hacia el incremento de la producción vía el uso de nuevas tecnologías y hacia las fuerzas del mercado y aquella que defiende el acceso a la [...]
Published by AlterNet 1 August 2010 The planet is running out of water. It was about time for the UN to recognize the right of every human being on earth to water and sanitation. The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental [...]
Published by LINKS 1 August 2010 Speech delivered by Ambassador Pablo Solón of the Plurinational State of Bolivia before the General Assembly of the United Nations on July 28, 2010. [The historic resolution passed with 122 countries voting for it and 41 abstaining, but with no negative votes. See below for the 41 governments that [...]
Publicado por ALAINET 29 Julio 2010 [La Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas, aprobó ayer 28 de julio, en su sexagésimo cuarto período de sesiones, una resolución que reconoce al agua potable y al saneamiento básico como derecho humano esencial para el pleno disfrute de la vida y de todos los derechos humanos. La resolución fue [...]
Published by DemocracyNow 29 July 2010 The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries abstained from voting, including the United States, Canada and several European and [...]
Published by Global Poverty 28 July 2010 Activists around the world are raising a glass today — of clear, cold water — after the UN today declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a human right. Without water, the average person wouldn’t last more than a handful of days (or less, depending on [...]
Publicado por Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra 26 Julio 2010 Tema 48 de la Agenda: Implementación integrada y coordinada de y seguimiento a los resultados de las principales conferencias y cumbres de las Naciones Unidas en campos económicos, sociales y campos relacionados. (lista de [...]
Published by guardian.co.uk Written by Maude Barlow 21 July 2010 The world’s running out of clean water. Unless the UN acts, the private sector will appropriate supplies and the poor will suffer On 28 July, for the first time ever, the general assembly of the United Nations will hold a historic summit on the human [...]
Published by ZCommunications.org 20 July 2010 Lessons of Cochabamba By Pablo Solon Source: Socialist Voice Bolivia’s UN ambassador gave this talk to the Shout Out for Global Justice, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto, during the ten days of protests against the G20 meeting. [...]
Published by UpsideDownWorld,org Written by David Solnit 07 July 2010 Written for Fifth Estate (fifthestate.org), Summer 2010 In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. The rebellion opened up new political space in [...]
Published by TERRAVIVA IPS Written by Bankole Thompson 27 June 2010 Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon said the great challenge of this century is to build a new environmental and social contract. Credit:Bankole Thompson/IPS DETROIT, Jun 27, 2010 (IPS) – The 2010 U.S. Social Forum ended Saturday in Detroit, a city viewed by many as a [...]
Published by COHA Written by Research Associate Katherine Charin 23 June 2010 Evo Morales Ayma, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has many promises and expectations to fulfill as viewed by his fellow indigenous. During his two terms in office, he has created many new opportunities for Bolivia’s native people, by enforcing the government’s new constitution and [...]
Published by Bolivia UN.org 14 June 2010 (Pablo Solón) After two weeks of hard work, we are deeply disappointed by the second version of the text produced under your responsibility. We expected to see a text that would include options that had been excluded in the first version of your text in order to start [...]
Publicado por cmpcc.org Junio 11, 2010 (Emb. Pablo Solon) Después de dos semanas de arduo trabajo estamos profundamente decepcionados por la segunda versión del texto que bajo su propia responsabilidad ha producido. Nosotros esperábamos ver un texto que incluyera las opciones que habían sido dejadas de lado en la primera versión de su texto para [...]
Published by The Huffington Post Written by Fernando Sulichin, Producer of ‘South of the Border’ June 8, 2010 Last night we arrived in Cochabamba, a city in the Andes in central Bolivia that has played a pivotal role in South America’s battle for economic independence. As we document in South of the Border, it was [...]
Published by The Bolivia Transition Project 02 June 2010 Today, Ambassador Pablo Solon of the Plurinational State of Bolivia highlighted Bolivia’s concern over current UN climate negotiations. The Ambassador talked of the voices of the real victims of climate change being excluded from the negotiations.“In April 2010 more than 35,000 people from 140 countries gathered [...]
Published by The Democracy Center Written by Kylie Benton-Connell 6 June 2010 The world is watching with mounting horror as BP fails to contain a six week-long environmental catastrophe off the Southern coast of the U.S. Its Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April, leaving 11 workers dead and oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico [...]
Published by Bolivia UN.org 4 June 2010 (Pablo Solón) A shared vision for long-term cooperative action on climate change is not simply about defining the limit on temperature increases. A Shared Vision must incorporate a comprehensive and balanced set of goals regarding finance, technology transfer, adaptation, sharing the atmospheric space, climate debt, forced climate migrants, [...]
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