GEC:NEWS is an online newsletter that is concerned with the issues related to our ever changing global environment. It focuses on topical issues both in aotearoa new zealand and abroad, and provides advice and pathways to other insightful resources on the web. GEC:NEWS is published by DRC wellington aotearoa. © 2006

WELCOME TO THE JULY 2007 ISSUE

Tena koutou e te whanau. Welcome to the latest issue of GEC:NEWS

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  • Schools Update
  • Community Update
  • New Community Resource
  • Just Focus Youth Network
  • Next Global Education Fund Round
  • Save the Children's Small Grant Fund
  • Global Focus Update

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  • Live Earth
  • Fighting Fast Food Giants one at a time

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  • Action in the Wildness & Warding off Weeds
  • What we are losing? Language is such a fragile thing
  • UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Slavery - It still exists!

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  • Youth3 (cubed)
  • Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Please speak out!
  • Conservation Week
  • International Youth Day
  • Shoot Nations
  • New Zealand Diversity Forum
  • Outlook for Someday
  • Talk to Me! Sharing the voices of young refugees
  • Kids Voting
  • Slavery - It still exists!
  • From Live Earth to a Global Movement
  • Moratorium on Bottom Sea Trawling

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  • Global Bits - The Trafficking Trap
  • Global Issues - Climate Change
  • The MDGs
  • Weather
  • The Tree Hut Treaty - Te Tiriti o Whare Rakau
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • God's Earth Our Earth

• IRAQIS CELEBRATE FOOTBALL VICTORY

  Tens of thousands of Iraqis from the Shiite south to the Kurdish-dominated north poured into the usually treacherous streets on Sunday to celebrate a rare moment of joy and unity when the national team won Asia's most prestigious soccer tournament - the Asian Cup.
  

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  TRIBE AT THREAT BY 'GREEN' FUEL DEMAND

  One of the last nomadic tribes on earth is threatened by rampant commercial logging and palm oil plantations for ‘green’ bio-fuel, a report said yesterday.

  
  

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  Howard's New Tampa - Aboriginal Children Overboard

  Our Aboriginal communities are being squeezed further into dysfunction and disenfranchisement by carefully targeted political engineering, the systemic and ruthless roll-out of a planned agenda.

HEATHROW THROWS UP LEGAL BARRICADES TO KEEP AWAY CLIMATE CHANGE PROTESTERS

If you live in the UK and are a member of the National Trust, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England or Friends of the Earth, then you could be could be arrested for travelling on tube or possessing a kite, and banned from Heathrow. All because the authorities want to halt a protest against climate change.

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Ahakoa iti, he pounamu

Although it is small, it is of greenstone