Posted by Kayly Ober on August 31st, 2009 |
Kayly Ober is a new contributor to Towards Recognition. She has written this article below, which compares different proposed instruments advocating formal recognition of environmental migrants, exclusively for this blog. buy generic clomid You can read her bio here. When you lose your home due to rising sea-levels, creeping desert sands, or harsh hurricane winds; […]
Posted by Dan DaSilva on August 25th, 2009 |
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has recently updated their policy paper entitled Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective, which was originally released October 2008. The 14-page paper looks at the human side of climate change, particularly the status and protection needs of those who are most directly affected. […]
Posted by Dan DaSilva on August 20th, 2009 |
‘Time to Click’ is an internet campaign calling on photographers around the world – professional and amateur alike – to help show the human face of climate change. Time to Click asks photographers to submit pictures that show how climate change affects their communities right now, and how it affects people in the places they’ve […]
Posted by Dan DaSilva on August 17th, 2009 |
The passing of Refugees International President, Ken Bacon, came just days after the announcement that he and his wife Darcy Bacon, have provided seed money to establish a new center at Refugees International to assist people displaced by global climate change. In the last few months of his life, Mr. Bacon turned his passion towards […]
Posted by Dan DaSilva on August 15th, 2009 |
Here is an update for those of you that are following the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) this December. More than 2,000 representatives met at the latest round of the Climate Change Talks, which took place on August 10-14. The committee had the current revised version of the negotiating […]
Posted by Sabrina Karim on August 14th, 2009 |
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lebanon faces great changes if average temperatures rise 2-4 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years, as most climate change models forecast. cheepest generic viagra Wael Hmaidan, executive director of IndyACT, The League of Independent Activists says climate change in the Middle East will […]
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