Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Global Forest Coalition Newsletter: Forest Cover (Winter 2008 Issue)

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Global Forest Coalition Newsletter: Forest Cover (Winter 2008 Issue)

Dear all,

Please find attached the 28th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition, or use the following link:

<http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/img/userpics/File/forest%20cover/ForestCoverNo28December2008.pdf>

This issue includes reports on the UN Climate Convention in Poznan, Poland and its impacts on forests, the IUCN fourth World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the UN Forum on Forests, in Vienna, Austria, and the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.

You will also find a report on the role of forest definitions in global climate change negotiations and on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Please share this newsletter with other interested organizations in your region.

Happy Holidays!!

Anne Petermann
North American Focal Point, Global Forest Coalition

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Nicaragua: Government Returns Land Title to Indigenous Peoples

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Subject: Nicaragua: Government returns land title to Indigenous peoples
From:    “wsdp” <wsdp@igc.org>
Date:    Fri, December 19, 2008 9:49 am
To:      wsdp@igc.org
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—–Original Message—–
From: First Peoples Human Rights Coalition
[mailto:info@firstpeoplesrights.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:54 AM
To: info@firstpeoplesrights.org
Subject: Nicaragua: Government returns land title to Indigenous peoples

[Forwarded by Don Bain–donb@ubcic.bc.ca]

UN News Centre–UN News service
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29336&Cr=indigenous+rights& Cr1=
Nicaragua’s titling of native lands marks crucial step for indigenous rights – UN expert

17 December 2008. An independent United Nations human rights expert has praised the Nicaraguan Government for giving the indigenous Awas Tingni community the title to its traditional lands, marking the culmination of a decades-long struggle by the group to gain recognition and protection of its ancestral territory.
“This affirmative step by the Government of Nicaragua represents an important advancement in the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, James Anaya.

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