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 March 07 ISSUE

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

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  • Community Happenings
  • Welcome back from the Schools Team
  • Just Focus
  • Seaweek-Teachers Professional Development Day
  • Media that Matters Aotearoa
  • Exciting New Competition for Young People
  • New GEC Resources
  • DRC's New Strategic Plan
  • Global Focus Update
  • Global Education Fund

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  • Maori Perspectives on Water
  • How Cool is Global Cool?

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  • Tunnel Vista: On Bill Gates' Proprietary New Philanthropy in Africa
  • Coffee is still hot
  • Would you like SUGAR with that?
  • Section 59 - Separating fact from fear

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  • It's Seaweek next week!
  • International Women's Day
  • Make Your Own Positive Contribution to Race Relations Day
  • World Water Day
  • Community Facilitators Wanted
  • Youth Parliament 2007
  • Global Education Fund
  • Tides and Tracks Facilitator Training
  • Connections Art Event
  • Coffee is still hot

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  • The Arts: The Global Dimension
  • The Atlas of War and Peace
  • Culture, Trade and Globalisation: Questions and Answers
  • Why White Kids Like Hip Hop
  • Can't Stop Won't Stop
  • Children of Thula Mntwana: Growing up in cities
  • Dying to Get In: The business of people smuggling
  • Genocide
  • Globalisation and Human Rights: Can profits and principles co-exist?
  • Blue Gold: The Interactive Encyclopaedia of Water
  • The Canoe is the People: Indigenous navigation in the Pacific
  • Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Peoples: oral, written expressions and new technologies
  • Martin Luther King CDROM
    

• Mexico's Migrant Mountain

  Millions of migrants have crossed illegally from Mexico into the United States. Their experience could hardly be more real. But now at a controversial theme park in Mexico, tourists can pretend to be an illegal migrant.

• Women's Rights

  Women’s rights around the world are an important indicator global well-being. Many may think that women’s rights are only an issue in some countries, but reading The Report about the United Nation’s Women’s Treaty and how an increasing number of countries are lodging reservations, will show otherwise.

• prime minister's Statement has Strong Sustainability Message

  "I believe New Zealand can aim to be the first nation to be truly sustainable – across the four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood......in the years to come, the pride we take in our quest for sustainability and carbon neutrality will define our nation, just as our quest for a nuclear free world has over the past twenty three years".

Quote

Wherever one looks, the life of this world depends on water. But if water itself feels thirst, from what well can one quench its thirst?

 

Somali nomad, Ogaden desert, Africa.Charles Mingus