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Scorching Grassroots in a Heated World

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Not only is global warming heating us up in the literal sense of the meaning, the issue of global warming is 'hot' itself.

Editorial

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Global warming

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Human rights

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Nobel Peace Price winner Al Gore created a large amount of momentum with his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, and United Nation’s Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, has made the accomplishment of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol one of his biggest priorities. A lot of other politicians and companies joined them in environmental action. But what about grassroots civil action? Why is it often so hard to make individual choices to save the environment, and what can we do about it?

Successful threesome

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Two different worlds

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No tears left to cry

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Beer - Light or dark?

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There is recently a lot of political willingness to act on global warming and to save the environment.

Bettering or governing?

Continues on page 2 Copyright: Chris Madden

Human Rights: Justifying a Wrong with a Right The recent affair of the French NGO “L’Arche de Zoe” (Zoe’s Ark), which is accused of having attempted to kidnap children in Chad, shows how humanitarianism can lead to quite the oppo-

site of the supposedly good intentions upon which it is based. Most humanitarians claimed after this regrettable affair: Zoe’s Ark made a mistake, but the vast majority of humanitarian NGOs

throughout the world do a wonderful job, and no one should question or re-examine the concepts of humanitarianism and the universality of human rights.

Internal voices No 2/ January 2008

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Tolerance by love

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A weapon of war

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Last step before hell

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Know Your Rights

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Disclaimer: This publication has been created by the interns of the United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels. The views and opinions presented in this publication are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations.


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